- Title: PA-52
- Summary: BOYS BEWARE: Film warns against gay sexual predators that prey on young teenage boys. Being gay as a crime and mental illness. ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL FILM TARGETED AT TEENAGED BOYS, URGING THEM TO AVOID ENCOUNTERS WITH MOLESTERS. INGLEWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT AND INGLEWOOD UNITED SCHOOL DISTRICT.
- Description:01:22:52 - POLICE LIEUTENANT WILLIAMS (CIVILIAN CLOTHES) (NARRATOR) WALKS OUT OF POLICE HEADQUARTERS BUILDING, CLIMBS INTO HIS AUTO CHEVY CIRCA 1960S), DRIVES OFF. MS VIEW OF ROAD AS SEEN BY WILLIAMS AS HE DRIVES TO MONROE HIGH SCHOOL TO SPEAK TO GROUP OF YOUNG STUDENTS. MS LT. WILLIAMS PASSES GROUP OF TEEN-AGE BOYS THUMBING A RIDE (AS SEEN THROUGH WINDSHIELD. AS VOICE OVER OF WILLIAMS TELLS OF THE DANGER OF THIS PRAcTICE. HE TELLS STORY OF ANOTHER BOY. 01:23:31 - MS YOUNG BOY, JIMMY BARNES, BASEBALL GLOVE IN HAND, THUMBING RIDE HOME OUTSIDE PLAYGROUND AFTER HARD DAY AT PLAY. CAR WITH MALER ADULT STOPS TO PICK HIM UP. JIMMY CLIMBS INTO FRONT PASSENGER SEAT, JIMMY STRIKES UP CONVERSATION WITH ADULT MALE DRIVER AS THEY RIDE ALONG. STRANGER BEFRIENDS JIMMY WHO TELLS THE MAN THAT HE PLAYS BALL EVERY AFTERNOON. STRANGER SAYS HE WILL SEE JIMMY AGAIN, FOR HE ALWAYS DROVE BY THE PARK ON HIS WAY HOME.. 01:24:17 - LS CAR PULLS UP TO JIMMY'S HOUSE. MS, JIMMY THANKS MAN FOR RIDE, STRANGER GIVES JIMMY FRIENDLY PAT ON SHOULDERS AS BOY GETS OUT OF CAR. CU ADULT STRANGER, BALDING WITH DARK SUN GLASSES, MOUSTACHE, NODS AND SMILES TELLS JIMMY HE WILL SEE HIM AGAIN, THAT HE ALWAYS DROVE BY THE PARK ON WAY HOME. 01:24:43 - MS ON FOLLOWING DAY STRANGER IN CAR IS WAITING FOR JIMMY AS HE LEAVES PARK WITH GLOVE IN HAND, JIMMY CLIMBS INTO CAR. THIS TIME STRANGER AT DRIVE-IN DINER WHERE STRANGER TREATS JIMMY TO A COKE. NAME OF DINER "TOD'S" ON TOP OF ROOF, TILT DOWN TO OTHER SIGNS ON WALL "PASTRAMI", CHICKEN AND ON DINER WINDOW "ALL BEEF TACOS 19 CENTS"., TO CAR WITH STRANGER AND JIMMY BACKING AWAY FROM DINER AND DRIVING OFF. 01:25:23 - DUCKS SWIMMING IN LAKE PASS JIMMY AND ADULT MAN FISHING WITH RODS ON BANK OF LAKE IN B/G. JIMMY SITS ON GROUND ASS HAS SANDWICH WITH STRANGER. MS AS THEY HAVE LUNCH, STRANGER SHOWS JIMMY PORNOGRAPHIC PICTURES HE TAKES OUT OF HIS POCKET. VOICE OVER, "WHAT JIMMY DOESN'T KNOW IS THAT THE STRANGER IS SICK......, A SICKNESS OF THE MIND". "YOU SEE, RALPH (STRANGER) IS A HOMOSEXUAL, A PERSON WHO DEMANDS AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH MEMBERS OF THEIR OWN SEX". VARIOUS VIEWS RALPH AND JIMMY PLAYING MINIATURE GOLF AND BOTH GOING TO RALPH'S APARTMENT. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS THAT JIMMY SHOULD HAVE DISCUSSED THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS PARENTS. WHICH JIMMY FINALLY DID. 01:27:07 - JIMMY WITH MOM AND DAD EXIT POLICE STATION WHERE THEY REPORTED RELATIONSHIP TO JUVENILE AUTHORITIES. RALPH WAS ARRESTED AND JIMMY WAS RELEASED ON PROBATION. 01:27:17 - ADULT MAN SEATED ON PLAYGROUND BENCH (BACK TO CAMERA, WATCHING YOUNG BOY'S PLAYING BASKETBALL. LT. WILLIAM'S VOICE OVER "BUT ALL HOMOSEXUALS ARE NOT PASSIVE, SOME RESORT TO VIOLENCE AS IN THE CASE OF MIKE MERRIT". AS BOYS PLAY BASKETBALL, NONE OF THEM SEE THE MAN WATCHING THEM. AS GAME BREAKS UP, MIKE DECIDES TO STAY A LITTLE LONGER, DOSE SEVERAL LAY-UP WITH THE BASKETBALL. THE STRANGER JOINS MIKE. HE TOO TAKES SHOTS AT BASKET WITH MIKE. VARIOUS SHOTS MIKE AND STRANGER TAKING SHOTS AT BASKET. MS STRANGER ASKS MIKE IF HE WANTED A RIDE HOME, MIKE AGREES, GETS INTO CAR AND THEY DRIVE OFF. VOICE OVER, "MIKE NEVER REALIZED UNTIL TOO LATE THAT HE WAS RIDING IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH". "SOMETIME THAT EVENING MIKE TRADED HIS LIFE FOR A NEWSPAPER HEADLINE". 01:28:55 - CU TWO BOYS SEATED AT STREET CORNER CURB, FOLDING NEWSPAPERS FOR DELIVERY, MAIL BOX AND BIKES IN B/G, EMPTY COKE BOTTLE IN FRONT OF THEM. MS BOYS FOLDING PAPERS, LEANING AGAINST BIKE, BACKS TO CAMERA, CASUALLY WATCH TWO BOYS PASS ON BICYCLES. 01:29:13 - SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, CAR (CIRCA 1960S C HEAVY), DRIVES UP TO THEM. MAN CALLS THEM OVER, ASKS IF THEY SEEN TWO BOYS ON BIKES PASS BY, THEY ACKNOWLEDGE; MAN TELLS BOYS THEY WERE STOLEN BIKES AND TO HOP INTO HIS CAR SO THEY CAN IDENTIFY THE BIKER THIEVES. ONE BOY (DENNY) HOPS IN WITHOUT GIVING IT ANOTHER THOUGHT, JERRY WATCHED THEM TAKE OFF. HE'D BEEN TOLD MANY TIMES," IF A FRIEND GOT INTO A CAR WITH A STRANGER, WRITE DOWN THE LICENSE PLATE". MCU JERRY WRITING DOWN LICENSE PLATE AS CAR SPEEDS OFF. 01:29:47 - MLS BOY ON BIKE RIDING TOWARDS CAMERA AS HE THROWS NEWSPAPERS ONTO DRIVEWAYS ON RESIDENTIAL STREET, RIDES ONTO SIDEWALK, HAND DELIVERS PAPER TO WOMAN (DENNY'S MOTHER) WATERING LAWN. JERRY TELLS DENNY'S MOTHER ABOUT HER SON GETTING INTO STRANGER'S CAR, GIVES HER THE LICENSE NUMBER. SHE GOES INTO HOUSE TO CALL POLICE. 01:30:21 - TWO MOTORCYCLE COPS, BACK TO CAMERA STOP CAR WITH STRANGER AND DENNY AS IT DRIVES INTO SECLUDED AREA. LS MAN GETS OUT OF CAR, IS SEARCHED BY COPS. 01:30:44 - THREE TEEN-AGE BOYS EXIT PUBLIC REST ROOM ALONG MARINA. "VOICE OVER "THEY DON'T KNOW THAT PUBLIC RESTROOM ARE HANGOUTS FOR HOMOSEXUALS". AS THEY CHAT THEY DON'T NOTICE ADULT MAN EXITING REST ROOM AND PASSING THEM IN B/G STANDING BY. MS TWO OF THE THREE BOYS TAKE OFF FOR HOME WHILE THE OTHER DECIDES TO TAKE SHORTCUT UNDER PIER. AS LONE BOY (BOBBY) HEADS FOR SHORTCUT ALONG THE BEACH, HE DOESN'T SEE MAN FROM REST ROOM FOLLOWING HIM ON BEACH. 01:31:17 - BOBBY HEADS TOWARDS CHAIN LINK FENCE IN WITH FORCED OPENING IN IT, AS HE BENDS DOWN TO SQUEEZE THROUGH, HE LOOKS BACK AND RECOGNIZES THE MAN FROM REST ROOM FOLLOWING BEHIND. HE RECOGNIZES THE DANGER, WAVES TO HIS FRIENDS, RUNS TO THEM DECIDING TO WALK HOME WITH THEM. STRANGER STOPS AND WATCHES BOBBY RUN OFF. VOICE OVER. BOBBY HAD MADE A WISE DECISION, IT MAY HAVE SAVED HIS LIFE". 01:31:47 - POLICE LT. WILLIAMS IN DRIVING CAR ON WAY TO MONROE HIGH SCHOOL AS SEEN THROUGH OPEN WINDOW OF DRIVER'S SEAT. ARRIVES AT SCHOOL. POLICE LT. VOICE OVER, "ONE NEVER KNOWS WHART A HOMOSEXUAL IS ABOUT, HE MAY BE ABNORMAL, AND IT MAY BE TOO LATE WHEN YOU DISCOVER HE IS MENTALLY ILL.....".
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1961
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: PA-52