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'''The Violent Years''' is a 1956 {{Glurge}}fest bringing us the story of one young Paula Parkins. She has it all on the surface... money, things, a lovely house, beauty and youth. However, the movie posits, she lacks the most important thing, true parental attention.

This lack of attention means that Paula must naturally turn to crime to get satisfaction with life. She forms a girl gang with three friends and they end up knocking over gas stations. Eventually they're forced to switch targets, and ultimately Paula seeks greater fare. And boy does she (and her friends) get it.

Creator/EdWood didn't ''direct'' this film, but he ''did'' write it.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E10TheViolentYears episode recap page]].

The Judge's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech also provides the intro [[{{sampling}} samples]] for the {{Ministry}} song "So What".

!!''The Violent Years'' contains the following tropes:
* AlliterativeName: Paula Parkins
* AuthorAppeal: Angora sweater? You bet. Crossdressing? Yep, though the less common female crossdressing.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: So the grandparents of an orphaned child have to specifically petition the courts for custody, and the same judge that just presided over a murder trial can turn them down because he thinks they're neglectful and [[MoralDissonance a state orphanage is a better place for the baby than with affluent family?]]
** The judge then advises that families turn to the Church, neglecting the idea that there are religions other than Christianity, much less the separation of Church and State.
* {{Badbutt}}: The girls come off as this during their final crime rampage. See PokeThePoodle, below.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Exemplified by the ridiculously pious judge.
* BiggerBad: Sheila's dialogue implies that [[DirtyCommunists the Soviet Union]] is paying her, and the girls by extension, to smash up a classroom. It's a ''seriously'' stupid example.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Done in such a way to subvert AllMenArePerverts.
** Also sets up the particularly harsh DownerEnding.
* DownerEnding: In a Glurge-fest, nobody wins. Nobody.
* DullSurprise: The gas station hold up.
* Creator/EdWood: He wrote this.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite claiming to be getting paid by a "foreign power" to wreck a school room, Sheila immediately calls the police when Paula reveals she killed a policeman.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: A "foreign power" wants the girls to crash a school room. Not the entire school, just the room. The movie treats this as the ''real'' MoralEventHorizon.
* GainaxEnding: "So ''what''?"
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Ed Wood's dialog always bubbles with subconscious sexuality.
-->'''Barney:''' They're a cute pair.
-->'''Paula:''' They have their points.
* {{Jerkass}}: The judge, and Paula to an extent due to her sullen, spoiled nature.
* MisterExposition: The family court judge, who also functions as a bookend for the movie.
* MoralMyopia: "[The cops] are shooting back!"
* MotiveRant: Done by the very smarmy judge at the end.
* PokeThePoodle: The gang's (for want of a better word) "rampage" through their school consists mostly of... [[FelonyMisdemeanor tipping chairs over and erasing chalkboards.]] [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Oh, and killing a cop.]]
** Made worse by the fact that killing the cop was almost entirely ''unintentional'' (or at least they didn't plan on doing it).
* SpinningPaper: Announces the aforementioned rape.
* SweaterGirl
* TemptingFate: "Hah! Look at 'em jump! Just like rabbits!" BLAM.
* TooDumbToLive: When in a shootout, always take a moment to gloat. 
** When you are being confronted by a girl gang, the leader of said group having informed you she's killed a cop, by all means pick up the phone and threaten to call the police.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: A "foreign power" wants the girls to crash a school room. Not the entire school, just the room. The movie treats this as the ''real'' MoralEventHorizon.

!!The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation contains these tropes:

* CarminaBurana: Servo's self-authored theme song WithLyrics.
* ContinuityNod: [[TheBeatniks "We shot that fat barkeep!"]]
* {{Earworm}}: Mike Mike Mike. M-M-M-Mike Mike Mike. M-M-M-Mike Mike Mike. M-M-M-Mike. M-M-M-Mike.
* OffWithHisHead: Tom Servo replaces his head with a ''very'' disturbing ventriloquist dummy's head. Mike chases him around the SOL, then pries his head off. Also qualifies as an EyeScream, as Mike ''gouges his thumbs into Tom's eye sockets when ripping the head off.'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xtHb-Si_Vs See the horror show here.]]
* RapeAsComedy: The MST3K crew CrossesTheLineTwice when taking on the male rape scene, and the aftermath.
-->'''Tom Servo:''' My rape victim refuses to come to Lamaze classes!
** Quite a few of the jokes were about the rapists getting pregnant, which the movie ended up really using.
* ShoutOut: [[Film/CitizenKane Boss Jim Gettys]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: A radio station, named '''FRANK'''! More Reba!

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