Pages of Death

The American hysteria around everything popular in youth culture around the 50s and 60s led to quite a few productions meant to scare kids away from temptations. This one is about magazines and paperbacks with sexual content, as they turn young kids into sexual maniacs.The story starts with a worried couple talking to the police about their 11 year old daughter not coming home from school. An investigation is started, her teacher is interviewed, and also the last people who saw her. As the police finds out what happen, they also find the root of the problem: how easily accessible magazines, books, films and slides with sexual content is. The movie has bookends where are narrator explains how this is a problem, and what do to about it.This is obviously a quite cheaply made, run-of-the-mill movie with little memorable about it (except its hilarious premise). Other than some unintentionally fun dialog, there are a couple of scenes that carries some emotional weight: the policemen receives troubling news from the station, and prepare to tell it to the girl’s parents, and a boy’s parents leaning the truth about their child.If you have friends who like to watch movies Mystery Science Theater-style, riffing along to what is happening on screen, you can have a great time with this movie. It is also a treasure trove for “plunderphonics” musicians, with some great material for sampling.