The dialogue in this film isn't laughably bad. It's just awful. It's filled with lines that no adult would ever say, at least no adults who wanted to be taken seriously. Steve Allen is a research professor doing work on the Kinsey report and questioning college students (who all look about 10 years too old us to be in college) on all aspects of their sexual habits. Understandable from a psychological point of view, but if he wanted to be taken seriously, he wouldn't handle it the way he does. When the oldest female college student ever (Mamie Van Doren, who still lives at home with her parents, Elisha Cook Jr. And Pamela Blake) gets in trouble for getting home in the middle of the night, Allen is confronted and this leads to trouble, which attract the attention of reporter Jayne Meadows.
It isn't just the dialogue about this film that is annoying. There's also a student who goes around making monkey noises (hideously shrill) and some really awful songs written and sung by Conway Twitty. These tunes are so bad that they become like earworms that won't go away. Allen and Meadows are really annoying in their scenes together, and how they could look at each other and not laugh in agony at what they had to say is beyond me.
Mickey Shaughnessy doesn't help as a truly dumb lug, with Rocky Marciano even dumber as the sheriff and poor Herbert Marshall looks totally in shock that he's been reduced to this. Cathy Crosby (Bob's daughter), Robert Montgomery Jr. And William Wellman Jr. Don't do their parents proud with appearances in this. It's hard to believe that this film is actually worse than anything that Edward D. Wood Jr. Had made up to that point. This one makes the dean's list for humiliating its fictional college. After a while, this just becomes too painful to suffer through.
It isn't just the dialogue about this film that is annoying. There's also a student who goes around making monkey noises (hideously shrill) and some really awful songs written and sung by Conway Twitty. These tunes are so bad that they become like earworms that won't go away. Allen and Meadows are really annoying in their scenes together, and how they could look at each other and not laugh in agony at what they had to say is beyond me.
Mickey Shaughnessy doesn't help as a truly dumb lug, with Rocky Marciano even dumber as the sheriff and poor Herbert Marshall looks totally in shock that he's been reduced to this. Cathy Crosby (Bob's daughter), Robert Montgomery Jr. And William Wellman Jr. Don't do their parents proud with appearances in this. It's hard to believe that this film is actually worse than anything that Edward D. Wood Jr. Had made up to that point. This one makes the dean's list for humiliating its fictional college. After a while, this just becomes too painful to suffer through.