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High School Confidential (film)

High School Confidential (film)

Overview
High School Confidential is a 1958 crime drama
Police procedural
The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...

 film directed by Jack Arnold. It stars Mamie Van Doren
Mamie Van Doren
Mamie Van Doren is an American actress and sex symbol.-Early life:Van Doren was born Joan Lucille Olander in Rowena, South Dakota, the daughter of Warner Carl Olander and Lucille Harriet Bennett . She is of three-quarters Swedish ancestry; the remainder is mixed English and German...

, Russ Tamblyn
Russ Tamblyn
Russell Irving "Russ" Tamblyn is an American film and television actor, who is arguably best known for his performance in the 1961 movie musical West Side Story as Riff, the leader of the Jets gang....

, Jan Sterling
Jan Sterling
Jan Sterling was an American actress.Most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty , and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance...

, John Drew Barrymore
John Drew Barrymore
John Drew Barrymore , born John Blyth Barrymore, Jr., was a member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including John Blyth Barrymore and Drew Barrymore.-Early life:Barrymore...

, Jackie Coogan
Jackie Coogan
John Leslie "Jackie" Coogan was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on The Addams Family...

. The film also features a cameo by Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame...

who opens the movie singing a song of the same name, which Lewis co-wrote with Ron Hargrave. Michael Landon also appears in a supporting role.
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Encyclopedia
High School Confidential is a 1958 crime drama
Police procedural
The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...

 film directed by Jack Arnold. It stars Mamie Van Doren
Mamie Van Doren
Mamie Van Doren is an American actress and sex symbol.-Early life:Van Doren was born Joan Lucille Olander in Rowena, South Dakota, the daughter of Warner Carl Olander and Lucille Harriet Bennett . She is of three-quarters Swedish ancestry; the remainder is mixed English and German...

, Russ Tamblyn
Russ Tamblyn
Russell Irving "Russ" Tamblyn is an American film and television actor, who is arguably best known for his performance in the 1961 movie musical West Side Story as Riff, the leader of the Jets gang....

, Jan Sterling
Jan Sterling
Jan Sterling was an American actress.Most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty , and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance...

, John Drew Barrymore
John Drew Barrymore
John Drew Barrymore , born John Blyth Barrymore, Jr., was a member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of four children, including John Blyth Barrymore and Drew Barrymore.-Early life:Barrymore...

, Jackie Coogan
Jackie Coogan
John Leslie "Jackie" Coogan was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on The Addams Family...

. The film also features a cameo by Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter, and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame...

who opens the movie singing a song of the same name, which Lewis co-wrote with Ron Hargrave. Michael Landon also appears in a supporting role.