High School Big Shot (1959)
1h 10m
Running Time
October 16, 1959Release Date
High School Big Shot (1959)
1h 10m
Running Time
October 16, 1959Release Date
Plot.
Marv needs money. His unemployed dad is so poor that he makes Marv give up half his last six bucks so they can both go on three-dollar dates; he's just lost his scholarship after getting caught writing a term paper for Betty, the prettiest (and only) girl in his class; and Betty herself has told him he doesn't stand a chance with her unless he can give her what she wants most: money, money, money. But Marv has mob ties and Marv knows where to find a million dollars cash.
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Cast & Crew.
Tom Pittman
Marvin 'Marv' Grant
Virginia Aldridge
Betty Alexander
Howard Veit
Vince Rumbo
Malcolm Atterbury
Mr. Grant
Stanley Adams
Harry March
Louis Quinn
Samuel Tallman
Peter Leeds
Mr. Carter
John Barrick
Larry Walker
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High School Big Shot is a 1959 film starring Tom Pittman as Marv Grant, a smart high school student whose plans for getting a college scholarship are threatened by his alcoholic father played by Malcolm Atterbury, and his relationship with the most popular girl in school. The plot is remarkably similar to that of Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, released only three years prior. Filmed in 1958 under the title Blood Money, it was released by executive producer Roger Corman as a double feature with T-Bird Gang in his first Filmgroup release.High School Big Shot was featured on an episode of the comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000.