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Try this instead: Johnny is a bad guy trying to go straight. He's smitten with Laura, a wealthy good girl rebelling against her parents by pretending to go steady with Johnny... all set among the backdrop of 1950's Los Angeles.

i.e. neither "who" nor "whom" is needed at all.

When they are, use "who" when referring to the subject, and "whom" about the object... if you don't know which is which, ask yourself a question about the person using the verb. If the answer is "he," "she" or "they" it's a subject; use "who." If the answer is "him," "her" or "them" it's an object; use "whom."

("he" is trying to go straight, so it would be "who" if it was needed at all; "he" is smitten with Laura, so it would be "who" if it was needed at all; finally, "she" is rebelling... again, "who.")

High school English, kids... pay attention. :)

(now get off my lawn!) ;)

The film itself is none-too-memorable, even for a TV movie. :-|

This is one of the better entries in the Showtime Rebel Highway series of AIP remakes. Its storyline doesn't rise above the usual simplistic TV movie of the week cliches, but it is intelligently acted by Mark Dacascos and Natasha Gregson Wagner. An excellent soundtrack, partly recorded by Los Lobos, adds character and grit.

A parking attendant in the person of Mark Dacascos steals cars as part of an organized gang. The well-established scheme fails after the hero falls in love with a rich young lady and completely loses control of himself, trying to pass off wishful thinking as reality. It will not be easy to impress the person he likes, who has a boyfriend, his partners in shady affairs will not be in the spirit of this, and then the police will be on the trail. In a word, the further, the more difficult it becomes. The plot is interesting in its own way, there are a couple of races for a conditional 402 meters, but otherwise it is full of cliches and objectively worse in quality than other works where the once famous character of category "B" action films has distinguished himself.

In the original 1957 film, "Dragstrip Girl", the situation was exactly the opposite. The main character was a racer, to whom the girl showed interest. At the same time, apparently, there were no clearly negative characters.

Of the similar works, one can pay attention to "No Man's Land" (1987). The narrative is comparable in its own way, the production is better.