 615 - KITTEN WITH A WHIP
Genre: Youth Gone Bad (1964, B&W)
Synopsis: Ann-Margret stars as a juvenile delinquent who escapes from a juvenile detention center and breaks into the home of a senatorial candidate, played by John Forsythe.
John puts up with her for a while but, then, when he finally tries to kick her out, she threatens to claim he assaulted her and ruin his promising political career.
So he lets her stay and she then decides to invite a few friends over for
“kicks.” The friends are the usual mixed movie lot:
there’s Grant, who thinks he is a cool hipster and can teach himself not to feel pain (I guess he never actually saw this
movie!); then there’s Midge, the mousy girl who’s only allowed to hang with this crowd because she has some wheels (i.e. a car).
Finally, there’s Buck, the big brut of a guy who, of course, is a bit light in the brain cells department.
In order to deal with this tough crowd, John Forsythe figures
that he should stay as bland as possible, a task he is perfect at doing. Soon, big ol’ Buck is swinging around a straight razor and badly cuts Grant’s arm.
So, even though he feels no pain, they need to take him to a doctor
for help. And, since Midge already split back to Squaresville, John Forsythe has to drive them there.
Instead of simple going to a hospital, though, they illegally head over the Mexican border to Tijuana. (Tijuana?
Hell no, I don’t wanna!) They manage to ditch Buck at the border.
And Ann-Margret and Forsythe then dump Grant off at the doctor’s office (I sure hope he brought his insurance card).
Forsythe then tries to dump Ann-Margret at a motel room, but she takes the keys to his car and won’t return them until he gets her some booze.
So he goes to get the booze but first runs into some friends of his and then into the two guys he ditched.
They follow him to the motel and, in a fight, he and Ann-Margret get away.
But the guys are chasing them in a stolen car and the whole thing ends in a crash that everyone doesn’t survive.
Don’s Review: This was a decent episode: the host segments were enjoyable, but nothing to write home about.
And the riffing varied throughout: sometimes it was great and sometimes only
okay.
But the movie was a bit more watchable than most (a 23-year-old Ann-Margret is not so bad on the eyes), so this was a good episode overall.
Don’s Rating: 
Forrest’s Review: This movie was actually kind of enjoyable.
At least for the first half, and same goes for the riffing.
This episode is considered to be great among MiSTies, and it was even voted highly on the Rhino Poll.
However, I still can’t see why this episode is considered to be so great.
First of all, MST3K has shown a few of these disturbed teen movies, and quite frankly,
it’s one of my least favorite movie categories on the show.
Girls Town had EXCELLENT riffing, and same for The Violent
Years, but the other ones didn’t go so well for me.
This movie starts out okay, and it really
wasn’t too bad.
Also, the riffing was very, very good for the first half or so.
But then things went a bit downhill. First, the movie became less enjoyable, and for the first time, I was actually disappointed in a
MST’d movie. (Considering that the show’s premise is centered around bad
movies!) And along with the movie, the riffing got a bit sparse.
It really isn’t BBI’s fault at all, the movie has so much dialogue that
I’m amazed that they could make the riffing as good as it was.
But still, the heavy dialogue in the feature can overwhelm the riffing at times.
When the riffing comes though, it is usually the same high quality riffs we can expect from season 6. I especially like the
Lord of the Rings riff at the last part of the movie.
But the riffing really shines in the beginning when Ann-Margret (who stands along side
Paul’s girlfriend in
The Crawling Hand and Mamie Van Doren as the hottest chick ever seen on the show) first shows up and Mike and the
’Bots poke fun at John Forsythe ("The steering wheel is snapping in his hands.").
But after that, the riffing becomes extremely sparse (now, nowhere near as sparse as Season
One or KTMA, but sparse for Season Six). Still when the riffs come,
they’re very, very good. I recommend this episode, but not highly.
Forrest’s Rating: 
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