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13 Frightened Girls (1963)
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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12.16.09
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This is one of the films released on the WILLIAM CASTLE FILM COLLECTION dvd set. The title is misleading, as it's a kid spy/adventure movie, not a horror film. I guess they were trying to link it to Castle's other movies, like 13 GHOSTS.
The blonde, sixteeen-year-old daughter of a US diplomat, Candy Hull, has a crush on a guy named Wally, who is a spy for her father. She overhears that if his performance doesn't improve that he'll be fired--so she takes it upon herself to help him obtain secret information from other countries. Because she goes to a private school in Sweden, all the other students are children of diplomats as well--and she's friends with them all. She's welcome at all the Embassies, which is ideal. She overhears things from the adults and sends the information, written in cut-out magazine letters, to Wally. And she quickly becomes the best spy the United States has. And no one knows who she is.
Candy is an international Nancy Drew.
What I like about this movie is that there's a real sense of danger for her, such as when a guy drugs her and is about to dump her out the window of a tall building. In another scene a Chinese assassin tries to hang her on a wicked-looking meat hook. And I must admit that while it's not what I expected it is a fun movie.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - 0 votes cast total
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