Got any stuff on you?

 

Got any stuff on you?





    A line from Tony Baker in the classic camp film "High School Confidential" that was much quoted among the fellas throughout the 70's and forward. The film was supposed to be a cautionary tale about drug use as Baker played by Russ Tamblyn went undercover at the local high school to ferret out the destroyers of youth. The 1958 movie has it all with the big drug dealer (Mister A), the drug pusher (Bix) and the hapless drug fiend (Joan) all brought to life with some of the corniest dialogue imagineable. Jerry Lee Lewis provided the title tune and Mamie Van Doren heated up the screen with platinum blonde va-voom. We young hip guys thought we knew all about the "drug scene" as we were avid pot smokers and ate up every word of the script. Baker was a young undercover cop, pretending to be a kid looking for thrills and this sentence was one of his come ons in between shaving on his way to school in his muscle car convertable and saving youth from the scourge of weed, tea, hemp that lead directly to "stuff" that was supposed to be the hard narcotics. Of course we used it in our circle to see if guys had some weed in their possession and it was a rare day when we could not find something somewhere. In the end Baker puts the bad guys behind bars and the final comforting thought "Joan now confines her smoking to ordinary tobacco cigarettes."



 

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