So Evil, So Young (1961)The shocking cruelty of reform school life is examined in this tale of a young beauty framed for robbery and sent to an institution run by a vicious warden. While attempting to adjust to her new surroundings, she tries to figure out a way to prove her innocence. But before she is set free, she must face off against the cruel headmistress.
The film begins with two young women breaking into a safe in a house where one of them, Lucy, used to be a maid. They are caught red-handed by the butler, but the other girl, Claire, whacks him over the head before she too can be identified, and they escape. Before she is arrested, Lucy goes to the hip little coffee shop where all the hip young people listen to live music and dance, and drops a piece of the stolen jewellery into the coat pocket of a pretty young innocent, Ann, who has usurped her as the object of the guitarist’s romantic interest. Lucy then spitefully tells the coppers that it was Ann who was her accomplice, and of course they discover the jewellery, and of course Ann gets wrongly convicted.
Both Lucy and Ann get sent to Wilsham, an open borstal for girls. Soon after arrival, they have a fight, Ann seemingly being unhappy about being framed. It appears that due to an oversight they didn’t get round to having that conversation during the entire court process, preferring to save it for prison. Ann is a goody-two-shoes, very much out of place in the borstal, and keeps protesting her innocence… and Lucy is quickly able to turn the other girls against her and get her into trouble...
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