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TCM Spotlight: Juvenile Delinquents: ‘Bad Boys’
TCM, beginning at 7 p.m.
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? The bad boys featured in tonight’s TCM lineup of films about juvenile delinquents
may not be thinking far enough ahead to consider that question, but they’re still entertaining to watch (and some aren’t even really all that “bad,” despite what they might want their hardened exteriors
to convey). Tonight (and carrying over well into early tomorrow morning, because would you really expect a bad boy to be in
his jammies and in bed by 9 p.m.?), you’ll spend time with incorrigible characters Fargo (Michael Parks) in 1965’s “Wild Seed” (pictured); Jim (James Dean) in “Rebel
Without a Cause” (1955); Craig (Paul Anka) in“Look in Any Window” (1961); Johnnie
(David McCallum) in “Violent Playground” (1958); Hal (James MacArthur) in “The Young Stranger” (1957); Nick (John Derek) in“Knock on Any Door” (1949); John (John Ashley) in “Hot Rod Gang” (1958); and Mike (Tommy Cook) in “Teen-Age Crime Wave” (1955). — Jeff Pfeiffer