Too Soon to Love
1960 American film
- February 1960 (1960-02)
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Too Soon to Love, also known as High School Honeymoon and Teenage Lovers, is a 1960 American exploitation film directed by Richard Rush and starring Richard Evans, Jennifer West and Jack Nicholson.[2]
The film was considered by some critics as among the first of the American "new wave" of filmmaking.[1]
Premise
The film is about the romantic relationship between a woman and a man, barely out of their teens, and another man named Buddy (Nicholson) who tries to steal her away from him.
Cast
- Jennifer West as Cathy Taylor
- Richard Evans as Jim Mills
- Warren Parker as Mr. Taylor
- Ralph Manza as Hughie Wineman
- Jack Nicholson as Buddy
- Billie Bird as Mrs. Jefferson
Production
The film was made for $50,000. It was Francis Ford Coppola's first writing assignment and director Richard Rush said "he had more youth than discipline."[1]
Jack Nicholson was cast off the back of his appearance in The Cry Baby Killer. He would make two more films with Rush.[3]
The film was sold to Universal for $250,000.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d McDougal, Dennis (2008). Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times. John Wiley & Sons. p. 38-39.
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- ^ TEENAGE LOVERS Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 27, Iss. 312, (Jan 1, 1960): 101
- ^ McGilligan, Patrick (1996). Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 113. ISBN 9780393248418.
External links
- Too Soon to Love at IMDb
- Too Soon to Love at the TCM Movie Database
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Richard Rush
- Too Soon to Love (1960)
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- A Man Called Dagger (1967)
- Thunder Alley (1967)
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- The Fickle Finger of Fate (1967)
- Psych-Out (1968)
- The Savage Seven (1968)
- Getting Straight (1970)
- Freebie and the Bean (1974)
- The Stunt Man (1980)
- Color of Night (1994)
- The Sinister Saga of Making "The Stunt Man" (2000)
- Air America (1990, co-writer)
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