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College Confidential

  • 1960
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  • 1h 31m
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Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen, Mamie Van Doren, and Walter Winchell in College Confidential (1960)
Sociology professor Steve McInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about Sex.
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Sociology prof's survey on youth lifestyle raises hackles when sex questions surface; reporter gets anonymous tip, prof's past emerges.Sociology prof's survey on youth lifestyle raises hackles when sex questions surface; reporter gets anonymous tip, prof's past emerges.Sociology prof's survey on youth lifestyle raises hackles when sex questions surface; reporter gets anonymous tip, prof's past emerges.

  • Director
    • Albert Zugsmith
  • Writers
    • Irving Shulman
    • Albert Zugsmith
  • Stars
    • Steve Allen
    • Jayne Meadows
    • Walter Winchell
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    • IMDb RATING
    4.8/10
    244
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    • Director
      • Albert Zugsmith
    • Writers
      • Irving Shulman
      • Albert Zugsmith
    • Stars
      • Steve Allen
      • Jayne Meadows
      • Walter Winchell
    • 20User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro

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    Steve Allen
    Steve Allen
    • Steve 'Mac' Macinter
    Jayne Meadows
    Jayne Meadows
    • Betty Duquesne
    Walter Winchell
    Walter Winchell
    • Self
    Mamie Van Doren
    Mamie Van Doren
    • Sally Blake
    Mickey Shaughnessy
    Mickey Shaughnessy
    • Sam Grover
    Herbert Marshall
    Herbert Marshall
    • Professor Henry Addison
    Cathy Crosby
    Cathy Crosby
    • Fay Grover
    Conway Twitty
    Conway Twitty
    • Marvin
    Randy Sparks
    • Phil
    Pamela Mason
    Pamela Mason
    • Edna Blake
    Rocky Marciano
    Rocky Marciano
    • Deputy Sheriff
    Sheilah Graham
    Sheilah Graham
    • Self (Reporter)
    Earl Wilson
    Earl Wilson
    • Self (Reporter)
    Louis Sobol
    • Self (Reporter)
    Elisha Cook Jr.
    Elisha Cook Jr.
    • Ted Blake
    • (as Elisha Cook)
    Ziva Rodann
    Ziva Rodann
    • Gogo Lazlo
    Theona Bryant
    • Lois Addison
    Nancy Root
    • Young Girl
    • Director
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      • Irving Shulman
      • Albert Zugsmith
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    • Trivia
      In the film, Walter Winchell describes Sally Blake as a "Mamie Van Doren-type." Sally is played by Mamie Van Doren.
    • Quotes
      • Steve 'Mac' Macinter: My job and reputation are gone. Two years' work, destroyed. But that can't compare in importance with what you've just witnessed - the triumph of *stupidity* over reason. Let me tell you the deep secret about my past. Some years ago I began a sociological study of skid row. To do a study of this sort involving human beings, gaining their confidence is absolutely necessary. These men drank. So I drank with them, for months. And I became an alcoholic. Professor Addison here had me dried out. Before I joined this faculty I had begun work on another sociological study, one that I didn't think would be as dangerous to me.
      • [chuckles]
      • Steve 'Mac' Macinter: I thought it important to know what our educated young people, the ones we refer to as our future leaders, thought about a world that's been at war since 1914. I thought it important to know what neglected moral values - square concepts that some hipsters don't care to dig - were considered worth saving. And there were other things I wanted to know to pass along to anyone concerned with the world we live in. I planned the sociological questionnaire to cover youth, and the push-button civilization in which he lives. All the interrelated areas of contemporary society: home, education, military service, politics... and sex. Yes, my questionnaire had twenty pages. Two of them were devoted to sex mores. Shouldn't we *know* the attitude of young people towards sex? When we, presumably mature adults, no longer describe a woman as lovely, beautiful, and gracious, but as 36-24-36? When as patrons of the arts we treasure our collections of nude calendar photos? Our philosophers are warning us something is seriously wrong with the morality of our society. Would you say they're mistaken? *No.* No, because that would force you to *think*, to at least defend a position. No, the horrible things is, you're not even listening to them.
      • [pauses]
      • Steve 'Mac' Macinter: Now, some of you were shocked by my questions on sex but are you also shocked that a foreign sociologist has described Americans as knowing everything about sex and nothing about love? Has love, like other ethical nobilities, gone out of style? Were my questions on sex dirty? Or is it the adult mind that looks for dirt? Why do we search for dirt? Why are we so determined to find dirt? As if determined to debase our minds and spirit, to the end and at last we'll succeed in splitting apart behavior and morality, science and religion, so that both will wither and we'll be left with nothing but the cheapest, smuttiest, least ennobling aspects of sex. Once the worm begins to gnaw on ethical values, the character of a good society changes. Force may become an instrument of repression against its own citizens, and individual liberties may be outlawed. If that happens you'll be forbidden to think creatively about anything, you'll be stupefied dull till you're incapable of thought, reason, or judgment. I think about such things. And if you object to my thinking, well then, that is the crime for which I should be held. I plead guilty to asking questions about life, and living, which naturally involve sex.
      • [pauses, removes glasses]
      • Steve 'Mac' Macinter: Now I'm going to shock you good people even more than before. I'm going to reveal the source books of my questions. First of all, the Bible itself.
      • [the crowd gasps]
      • Steve 'Mac' Macinter: Yes, the Bible brings up such questions. And so do Cervantes, Homer, St. Augustin, all the greatest and noblest of human thinkers, whose work brings us closer to God. Should I tell you how Shakespeare dramatized the attitude of a child toward the immorality of a parent? In, um, in "Hamlet," uh, act one, scene five, the ghost of Hamlet's father says to his son, in regard to his mother, "Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother ought; leave her to heaven." In today's world, controlled by a strange combination of dangerous passions and atomic forces that can obliterate entire cities in an instant, we *must* face the responsibility for our decisions. One of the most important is, whether we're going to settle for ignorance instead of knowledge. I wanted to know what my students thought about all of these problems. Now I'll never know. But neither will you. Somehow I - I think we've both lost the chance to use our minds for knowledge. Is there a better reason for our creation?
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    Details

    • Release date
      • August 4, 1961 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Confidenţialitate din universitate
    • Filming locations
      • Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Famous Players
      • Allen-Meadows
      • Albert Zugsmith Productions
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    Tech specs

    • Runtime
      • 1h 31m(91 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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