♦B-Movie Classics♦ 'Because They're Young' (1960) Dick Clark, Victoria Shaw

1960 • Approved • Drama • April 1960 (USA)
Stars: Dick Clark • Victoria Shaw • Michael Callan • Tuesday Weld
A new high school teacher tries to help troubled students and falls in love with the principal's secretary.

[@willaknotts1298]

I was 10 in 57..living vicariously thru my allstar brothers life and hating my life at the same time. My brother bullied me and my sister abandoned me. My self esteem was gone. Those were tough years but i made it. Im 76 and lived a wonderful life thereafter. ❤

[@robtw88]

So glad you're a true survivor!

[@CliftonBowers-pc2xu]

I am very grateful that I bump into some of those child stars ...no live in same area of several..😮near LaJolla also Malibu...😮

[@joecastillo4884]

How did your sister abandon you? Were you ever close with your brother, as adults?

[@chuckf6163]

I'm so happy for you, that's awesome!

[@willaknotts1298]

@@joecastillo4884 my sister never protected me..2 yrs older. She never wanted me around her and her friends. She used me when adults. She tried to disrupt my weddind day. She is narcissistic. Ive never been comfortable with my bro..intimidated me. I havent spoken to my sister now 1.5 yrs..12 yrs with my bro. Ive stopped all communiques. Im free.

[@judywilkerson8682]

And I thought Dick Clark just hosted American Band Stand and brought rock and roll main stream into American homes but seems he did a lot more than that ! I never knew he was an actor and producer .I really enjoyed this movie .

[@willaknotts1298]

Dick Clark was an entrepreneur from the get go! Marketing genius. I think he motivated many young people he encountered too. American Bandstand with Dick Clark was perfection!

[@CliftonBowers-pc2xu]

He was a friend of mine for many years ..😮great full to had in my life too..

[@billywatson118]

Is the coach the bad guy in bullet?

[@jmccracken1963]

@@billywatson118 Yes. Paul Genge played Mike, the hitman, in "Bullitt."

[@MTknitter22]

Note the beautiful, quality old high school buildings they built then. Nothing like the ugly industrial looking things since the 80’s.

[@evaphillips2102]

No wonder kids were more respectful

[@chesterlee6508]

Tartaria , check it out , America was found(ed).

[@RobertMay-tr1yx]

Not only did they build the schools better than, when you had chalk a blackboard and eraser you actually learn more than when today's kids have a calculator, kids today can't add can't multiply can't read yet they graduate go figure!!!

[@painin2teeth]

Yes. This is the old Hoover high building in Glendale ca. It was torn down a few years after this. New building is okay

[@buskman3286]

Dick Clark was really good - I had no idea he had acting chops!

[@NovemberReigne]

He was handsome too

[@foto21]

Dick Clark was a really good actor. Not sure why this wasn't a staple of movie reruns on television except that it was in black and white. No idea how I missed it. Michael Callan just radiates energy. What an electric actor.

[@donnabaardsen5372]

Terrific movie! Dick Clark does a great job.

[@rckkeller9437]

Buddy’s mom was the mother in law to be on the movie original The parent Trap! I recognized the voice….

[@robtw88]

Yes, Linda Watkins!

[@nae80West]

@ 17:50 ,”Why don’t we just beam in our classes by remote control?” Ironic that right now we do this with Zoom.

[@StanZ-i6w]

I was thinking the same thing, but you beat me to the comment!❤❤❤

[@agnesgooch459]

By design!

[@grey1951]

I love this movie so much. The novel, Harrison High, by John Farris, was notorious when I was a kid, and much more explicit than the film adaptation. But this movie is a classic. Tuesday Weld can do no wrong.

[@jackgilley7425]

Doug McClure, James Darren, Tuesday Weld, Duane Eddy!! Holy Cow!!! They should have had movie franchises back then.

[@GeneRogers-di6cl]

I’m here for the beautiful Tuesday Weld ❤

[@Ex-Pensive_Expat]

Wow. Actually a good movie. Who knew Dick Clark could act..

[@kathleenking47]

He played in the last Perry Mason as the bad guy

[@Ex-Pensive_Expat]

@@kathleenking47 I didn't know that.

[@JJJBRICE]

Old DC was in a couple of movies and TV shows back in his younger days . He usually played young , clean cut types , like teachers , doctors, and young businessmen, Type casting , you know

[@1940sDream]

James Darren! Childhood crush there! And still in my older years.

[@djr6876]

Tuesday Weld ,my child hood beauty idol ! Always thought M. Callan was cute and Roberta Shore too! So many familiar faces in this .

[@willaknotts1298]

Callen was one of my favs too.

[@CherieAllen-g2y]

Love Tuesday Weld❤.met her in Phoenix arizona.made my mom drive 1 he.in very hot weather to see her..got her Autograph forgot the camera though ..Shuck's❗ found out a few weeks ago I'm related to her Shirley temple my 2 favorites and George Bush family and Marjorie Taylor Greene😂 alit of us are related in past lineages check it out ..

[@slc2466]

Interesting to finally catch this one. I'm a massive Tuesday Weld fan and she gets a couple scenes here wherein she shows her supreme acting chops. The rest of the cast was likable and earnest, and it was fun to see Dick Clark as a leading man.

[@lesdabney2144]

Really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting!

[@robtw88]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@EricLehner]

Wpw - Terrific film. Also - Dick Clark is a fabulous actor.

[@MTknitter22]

American cars in the 50’s - a work of art. What a fun movie!

[@raynardabraham7831]

That was one of Beavers friends in the car with Dick Clark😅.

[@wallys11000]

Yep that was "Whitey. "

[@vanessadraper4152]

Gilbert

[@williamColella]

Stephen Talbot, aka Gilbert

[@metroskunk3000]

Yep, that's Gilbert alright!! lol

[@petescare13]

@@wallys11000 different actor but he was another one of the 3 friends who appeared in the series

[@dennisharvey7899]

Lucky me, I graduated in 1961.

[@jessaca]

The acting❤

[@Jack-jy2nh]

I loved this.

[@robtw88]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@joecastillo4884]

Dick Clark could have played one of the teenagers! He still looked youthful enough, at age 30.

[@miketemple7686]

Damn! Mr. Dick Clark killed it. Who knew he could carry a movie 🎥 🎬🍿.

[@Denise-dv3ps]

He carried Bandstand for decades...

[@GeneRogers-di6cl]

I see Dick Clark’s son was on “Leave It to Beaver “ as one of Beaver’s friends.

[@HernandezJan]

Amazingly good movie! I was pleasantly surprised. Thank you!

[@robtw88]

Glad you liked it!

[@vickyostenson6361]

The difference between early 60s and late 60s has zero comparison.

[@robtw88]

So true!

[@QuantumEffectResidue]

"Why don't we just beam in our classes by remote control" Wow, that's a reality now, only it's not exactly a remote control though! Dick Clark was great in this movie. It's great to see how life was back then and compare it to nowadays. No comparison. It shows how cheap and disgusting our society is now.

[@glojac892]

So handsome❤

[@jmccracken1963]

Until I looked at Roberta Shore's IMDB profile, I didn't realize that I've also seen her in "The Shaggy Dog," "A Summer Place" (uncredited), "Strangers When We Meet," and "The Young Savages." (She also played Lorna (uncredited) in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film bowdlerization of Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita.") Other commenters have referenced her role as Betsy Garth in "The Virginian" on NBC (70 episodes from 1962 to 1965), but she also played foil to Annette Funicello in "Annette" in 1958 and Henrietta "Hank" Gogerty in the one-season wonder "The Bob Cummings Show" in the 1961-1962 season. She had made her TV debut at the age of 7 as a regular (mostly singing) on "The Pinky Lee Show." And she made 5 appearances on "The Lawrence Welk Show" between 1959 and 1962. Roberta Shore also holds the dubious "distinction" of being the first person to record "Let There Be Peace On Earth," one of the most saccharine, sappy pieces of "spiritual junk food" ever written.

[@pi.actual]

Drove me nuts trying to remember who that kid was then it finally came to me. Gilbert from Leave it to Beaver.

[@danielgaughan4243]

don’t give me that malarkey about cold showers.

[@BAM-jc7uy]

chris robinson was always sooo good looking and "edgy" attractive.

[@tEpicEcho]

Excelent!

[@MTknitter22]

Roberta Sherwood, Doug McClure, Michael Callahan

[@albertawalters3731]

This was great! ☺️

[@robtw88]

Glad you liked it!!

[@CliftonBowers-pc2xu]

Omg at least four are still with us..

[@RichardLove-km1cp]

To answer the question about whether, or not, the actor playing "the coach" also played in "Bullitt" (1968): YES... Paul Genge played the Ice-pick and Shotgun wielding Hitman. He spoke nothing, but communicated expressively, 'loud-and-clear'.

[@jaytea42]

Good Duane Eddy segment at 43:18 🎉

[@robtw88]

R.I.P. Duane Eddy 1938-2024

[@jmccracken1963]

Look at Michael Callan in that climactic scene at the end of the movie. He's using acting and moves that he learned from Jerome Robbins while playing Riff in the original Broadway production of "West Side Story." (He was billed as "Mickey Calin," and had just turned 22 when "West Side Story" premiered at the Winter Garden Theater in late 1957.) I thought in particular of "The Rumble" at the end of Act I of "West Side Story" while watching that scene. Callan made his film debut at Columbia in 1959, playing Private Andrew Hetherington in "They Came to Cordura," as part of an excellent ensemble cast including Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Dick York, Robert Keith, Edward Platt, and Carlos Romero (directed by Robert Rossen). Two years after "Because They're Young," Michael Callan played vicious and manipulative teen psychopath Chuck Landry in "13 West Street," also at Columbia, co-starring with Alan Ladd, Dolores Dorn, Rod Steiger, Kenneth McKenna, Margaret Hayes, Stanley Adams, Chris Robinson (who plays Patcher in "Because They're Young"), Jeanne Cooper, and Arnold Merritt (directed by Philip Leacock). Michael Callan's only foray into series television came in 1966-1967, when he played Peter Christopher in the "one-season wonder" NBC sitcom "Occasional Wife," in which he co-starred with Patricia Harty and Jack Collins, with Bryan O'Byrne, Joan Tompkins, and Jack Riley playing recurring roles.

[@alicewolfson4423]

The first song, by Bobby Rydell sounds like Boney Maronie by Larry Williams.

[@spudwas]

A much better upload!

[@scorejames]

Everyone's in this.

[@djr6876]

The boys don’t wear ties ?! Those renegades !

[@AnthonyTorres1988]

Does anyone have a vhs tape ?, the full broadcast of New Year's Rockin Eve on ABC Please ?.📼

[@Havenwyck_Media]

A trip back to the good old days....

[@robtw88]

True!

[@janet-zk2kl]

Love those sheer white ruffled curtains!

[@laurakibben4147]

Wow! I've never seen him young! Not bad atall y'all, lol!

[@pearlbrandwein4731]

Dick Clark started as an actor but became a music impressrio for rock 'n roll groups & producing/developing American Bandstand which became a staple for teens & college kids. They learned about music, how to dance, which rock groups & singers were popular & introduced new talent constantly. Dick Clark made hundreds of millions in the music business which was alot more lucrative than acting. Michael Callan went on to a film/TV career, but became more popular on a hit TV comedy with Patricia Hardy. Tuesday Weld started on TV show, "The Loves of Dobie Gillis" with Dwayne Hickman whose twin was also in the business. Bob Denver played Maynard G. Krebs then became Gilligan on Gilligan's Island. Tuesday Weld's costar was Warren Beatty. She made several films, then married Pinchas Zuckerman, the famous musician & retired. Doug McClure & Roberta Shore became regulars on "The Virginian" starring Lee J. Cobb & James Drury. Roberta Shore left the business to marry. Doug McClure worked consistently on TV. This movie brings back memories.

[@pearlbrandwein4731]

James Darren was Moon doggie on "Gidget" with Sally Field who went on to a big screen career & OSCAR. He worked in film & on TV.

[@lemorab1]

@@pearlbrandwein4731 Before that, James Darren was Moondoggie in the movie, "Gidget," with Sandra Dee. That film made both of them stars in 1959.

[@jmccracken1963]

@@pearlbrandwein4731 As a boy (I'm now 65), I remember James Darren playing Dr. Tony Newman in "The Time Tunnel," a 1966-1967 "one season wonder" TV series on ABC, in which he co-starred with Robert Colbert, Whit Bissell, John Zaremba, and Lee Ann Meriwether. I've also seen him in "The Brothers Rico" (as Johnny Rico), "Gunman's Walk" (as Davy Hackett - the "good son" of Van Heflin), and in the original "Gidget." He was born James William Ercolani in Philadelphia. (I wonder if he's related in any way, shape, or form to Italian comprimario tenor Renato Ercolani?) in his teen years (early 1950s), he commuted from South Philly to New York City to study acting with Stella Adler.

[@turnerification123]

Had a crush on M Callan since Cat Ballou

[@jmccracken1963]

And if you like Victoria Shaw as an actress (I do!), check out her performances in the other movies in which she co-starred over the course of a 25-year acting career, including "Return of the Plainsman" (aka "The Phantom Stockman"), "The Eddy Duchin Story," "The Crimson Kimono," "Edge of Eternity" (WELL worth watching!), "Alvarez Kelly," "Westworld," and "Prelude" (a 1968 25-minute short film written by, directed by, and starring John Astin).

[@angelicacapone9211]

i love it :) :)

[@robtw88]

Glad you like it!

[@marcdelente2456]

Elvis Presley allez bientôt rentré de son service militaire. Et pas d égale pendant ces 2 ans d absence. Je pense que le jeune doug mc Clure joue dans ce film.

[@CliftonBowers-pc2xu]

Oui lo creo..hachen ortro piliculas du Hawaii..un army ..

[@marcdelente2456]

@@CliftonBowers-pc2xu one movie 1960 Gi blues.

[@jennifer7330]

😂😂 It's Beaver's house 😂😂

[@fuell1]

Yes, it is.

[@Jerryjohnson-i4g]

Sorry, but you're mistaken. This is the Columbia back lot and the houses were......withe the front porch, Dennis The Menace/ the Donna Reed Show.....to it's left with the picket fence was Mr. Wilson's house (from D.M.)\Father Knows Best house /Larry Hagman's house from I Dream Of Jeannie and also shown was the George Baxter home from Hazel/Gidget's house. Sadly the entire back lot was leveled only a few months ago. Beaver's house is still intact on the Universal back lot and was most recently used as one of the homes on Desperate Housewives (though heavily remodeled).

[@MrSmooth273]

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[@StanZ-i6w]

The movie was pretty good, but I hate happy endings! Griff was supposed to die at the end, in my view!

[@robtw88]

Yes, unlike today where everything is dark, cynical and depressing, people back then wanted happy endings

[@noscrubbubblez6515]

Dick Clark started out like Al Bundy. Tuesday Weld wears a bra. At this time (1960) students were instructed to 'Drop'! which meant; crawl under your desks. Atomic attack was expected. But the real message was hidden- kids sniffing glue was the rage. good movie - but couldn't tell if it was California.

[@kathylynch9732]

I had no idea Dick Clark had ever acted.

[@Nalla762]

Hi Rob, are you able to allow us to donate through YT on your channel home page? I'm sorry, but I just don't do paypal. Question: Are you able to get The Damned Don't Cry 1950 Joan Crawford film? Or do you already have it and I'm just blind? 😂. Thank you for your excellent selections!

[@robtw88]

Sorry but PayPal is the only option at this time, but thanks for your consideration anyway. The Damned Don't Cry is not available for KZbin but I believe it is available on Amazon Prime. Glad you enjoy my channel!

[@lemorab1]

I saw this in 1960, when it first came out. I was in the 6th grade with Stephen Talbot, who plays Eric, Dick Clark's nephew. Victoria Shaw was married to Roger Smith, a huge star on the TV show "77 Sunset Strip." Seeing "Because They're Young" all these years later, I'm dismayed at the overcooked line readings, amateurish acting and lousy script; not to mention the actors in their mid-twenties playing teenagers. Tuesday Weld is not yet the excellent actress that she will become, but she's getting there. Tuesday and Roberta Shore are almost the only ones close to the ages of the characters they are playing. Dick Clark is okay. The book, "Harrison High" was so much better. It was THE scandalous book we were reading in high school several years later. The plot is much better than the changes they made in this movie.

[@mahasir]

please upload full HD mari blanchard No Place To Land 1958 thanks.

[@EJP286CRSKW]

It's already on KZbin. Search.

[@JJJBRICE]

Ms. Victoria Shaw was handsome Roger Smiths other wife !

[@Noname-ig7yj]

It’s Gilbert

[@janjablonsky]

So little screen time for Tuesday. Why Watch?

[@MTknitter22]

You know how she played the naughty girl so often? Really typecast I thought. Then I saw an interview she gave - she was pretty much really that way in her starlet days. She was very honest.

[@lemorab1]

@@MTknitter22 At the time she made this movie, she had already had a fling with Frank Sinatra, when she was 14 years old. During filming, she was involved with Sean Flynn, Errol's son. Tuesday Weld was actually living the life that that she portrayed on screen.

[@stashyboy1]

20 year old teenagers again? Lol

[@kathleenking47]

They never used real teens Except extras

[@slc2466]

Tuesday Weld and Roberta Shore (both born in 1943) are age-appropriate, at least.

[@JS-fe8sx]

Roberta Shore was in multiple Disney productions, retired at 22 to focus on her family.

[@conniekiser3314]

This movie was ruined by all of the annoying commercials 😒

[@tisenhow]

Get premium. No commercials. I love it, definitely worth the money!

[@suzanwahlquist3258]

Oops I forgot it's lyle talbot.

[@jamesyates1432]

Is that the school from”Grease” or “Rock and Roll High School” with the Ramons?

[@MTknitter22]

No

[@ACowGirlFan]

The school shots, both exterior and interior, were filmed at Herbert Hoover high school in Glendale, California. The movie was filmed during the summer of 1959 and used actual students from the school as extras in the opening campus shots. That campus was raised between 1966 and 1969 and replaced with the current campus, because the original one would not pass earthquake standards and it was cheaper at the time, to build a whole new school than to retrofit the original buildings to current earthquake standards. I was in one of three classes, that attended both the original campus that was in the movie, and the one that replaced it. The original campus used in the movie was beautiful with terrace lawns and looked like you would think a high school should look like. More than the one that replaced it. [my opinion)

[@jamesyates1432]

@@ACowGirlFan thank you!

[@CliftonBowers-pc2xu]

Knew Dick he and his wife where friends drop by in dallas also hung with Merv Griffin ..

[@jeanettehightower943]

We know that roberta shore and Doug McClure will playing in the vigirgian at a later date together. A western show!!

[@actionsub]

Trampas dating Betsy was the ironic part of the casting here that got me...

[@whatsamattayu3257]

Great Duane Eddy score. Reached #4 on Billboard Hot 100 in 1960.

[@cynthiafrank5638]

Score by John Williams.

[@QueenAmethyst55]

Griff 😍 really enjoyed this film. Great acting from everyone.

[@BAM-jc7uy]

waaay back then, as a young teen this was a "great" movie for 25 cents....too bad they didn't have roberta shore sing a song during the hs dance.

[@mkp8942]

Wow dick Clark was a good actor. Great movie.

[@angelabenton9902]

Great movie! 🎬

[@robtw88]

Glad you liked it!

[@lisalafferty3248]

When I was young I had a crush on James Darren

[@glojac892]

Too cute❤

[@StanZ-i6w]

I am a guy and I was really jealous of his brother Bobby! All the girls were swooning over Bobby because of his great singing, and I can't sing at all!😢

[@susant700]

Opening car scene: I believe that is Jay North who played "Dennis The Menace" / 1950's - 1960's TV show. I had no idea Dick Clark started in a movie. Gee-Wiz .... how cool is that ! 😊😊

[@CherieAllen-g2y]

No it wasn't jaynorth but we could google it .

[@disappointeddinosaur4440]

💚 I thought it was Jay North, too. 😊~6/5/24~ 🌴

[@USNWaveRet]

Eric was played by Stephen Talbot. He played Dick Clark's ward and nephew in Clark's first movie, Because They're Young (1960). He is in his 75th year. I also thought it was Jay North so I had to look it up! Jay North is in his 71st year. Both were born in Los Angeles... makes you wonder, could they be kin of sort???

[@pauldevaney3109]

He played Beaver's friend Gilbert Bates on "Leave it to Beaver."

[@lemorab1]

@@USNWaveRet No, Stephen is not kin to Jay North. I went to elementary school with Stephen Talbot. He is a documentary film producer, son of actor Lyle Talbot, and brother of best selling author, David Talbot.

[@paolazuffinetti]

T H A N K S: lovely, lovely, lovely👏👍👌

[@dalehoward3704]

Cool 50s teen movie❤

[@jennimadden1061]

Great music!

[@willaknotts1298]

Love the Basset Hound!

[@robtw88]

Me too!

[@SuzanneHall-f7d]

Wow...I had no idea Dick Clark was an actor!!

[@chuckf6163]

Dick Clark looked a little like a young William Shatner back then.

[@StanZ-i6w]

He looked somewhat like Shatner, but Shatner was in a class all his own! You could only compare Shatner to movie gods like Paul Newman, Rock Hudson, Robert Redford, and Troy Donahue! Dick Clark is not in that category!

[@jeansplace1]

1954/55 - high school junior... kind of out of the tv experience before those years... didn't even know Dick Clark was a actor. Just saw him after school with the teenagers dance to the 50's music. Wow.

[@raymondcorona5541]

Pretty cool movie !!! Like it a lot😊

[@robtw88]

I'm glad you like it

[@MikeMarley-r9s]

Was that a "Gretch"guitar Dwayne played?

[@orbyfan]

I don't know, but he did a great job, especially since it's not plugged in.

[@RonaldDaub-xi5jz]

Brylcreme 😎

[@kathleenking47]

50:35he sings?..(lyrics are hokey)...this was an instrumental on top 40s

[@kathleenking47]

A little dab will do😃

[@moe9196]

dorky flick

[@susancolucci3005]

Thank you 🥰

[@CliftonBowers-pc2xu]

The Rebbles kool..