Girls Town

The movie opens with a young woman fending off her grabby date. In the process he accidentally falls off a cliff to his death. Circumstantial evidence places 16-year-old delinquent Silver (played by a 27-year-old Van Doren) at the scene and she is sent to Girls Town, a rehabilitation village run by a group of nuns. There she lives with Serafina (Gigi Perreau) and two tough chicks. Trouble and misunderstandings ensue. Troublemaker Fred (Tormé) saw the cliff incident from a distance and realizes it was Silver’s sister who was there: Mary Lee (Elinor Donahue, from Father Knows Best). Fred blackmails Mary Lee into being his partner in deadly “hands-off drag racing,” then prepares to take her to Tijuana to sell her into the slave trade. Silver finally wins the respect of her Girls Town friends, but can they rescue Mary Lee?

A side plot involves Serafina swooning over famous singer Jimmy (Anka). During the film he sings “Lonely Boy”, “It’s Time to Cry”, “Girls Town Blues”, and “Ave Maria”. A scene set in a night club features The Platters singing “Wish It Were Me”. —Wikipedia