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Matt (John Ashley) has made it to students body president because he
has bullied people into voting for him and/rigged the results with the
help of his girlfriend Lita (Daria Massey). Now officially, he plays the
generous Mr president, but behind closed doors, he and his right-hand man
Crickett (Steve Stevens) are big in embezzling money, and as a healthy
income on the side, they sell exam questions to everyone who's paying
enough money - and they always make sure they're getting their money ...
one way or the other. Why is Matt such an asshole - because he's a rich
but neglected kid, he can afford everything he needs, but his parents are
never at home, and thus nobody tells him what to do and not to do. Matt's
downfall starts when he put's up his lucky gold coin in a hot rod race ...
and loses to good guy Kelly (Lowell Brown), the guy he cheated out of
becoming students body president. In a rage, he drives Kelly off the
street, which kills Kelly, but Matt retrieves his gold coin. And except
for Crickett, there are no witnesses. Matt soon realizes that after this
"accident" it's imperative to get an even tighter grip on his
gang, while letting everyone else bleed. Then two of his goons are almost
caught when trying to steal exam questions from the teachers' office,
which absolutely puts him on the edge. And when Crickett urges him to get
Wanda (Judy Nugent) to date him, he takes drastic measures and pretty much
drags her into his car, then though tries to rape her himself, whereupon
she finds the gold coin he has culled from Kelly's hands ... Meanwhile
Wanda's boyfriend Bob (Gary Vinson), formerly Kelly's sidekick, tries to
organize several of the students to go against Matt, and so does Crickett,
convincing Matt's gang to ditch him for the asshole he is - and in the
end, Matt is left whimpering lieing in the dirt - with his coin but
nothing/noone else on the whole world. High School Caesar
is ... well, nothing much, just a not very special piece of drive-in
cinema. And basically that's because it doesn't try enough: While the
title suggests teenage gangsters, Matt's just a spoilt brat, the attempts
at serious drama are actually layered with clichée upon clichée, the
film's psychological undercurrents are rather ill-conceived, the action
gives away the movie's low budget a bit too readily, and the cast lacks
any shining performances while the direction is at best functional. That
all said, for fans of 1950's and early 1960's juvenile delinquency
drive-in fare like myself, this is not a total trainwreck, it has at least
got this certain vintage B-flavour to it that people like us find hard to
resist ... but that's about it, then.
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