Johnny Lingo
I almost asked whatwasthatone about this movie because it was driving me crazy. I don't know if kids today still have to take Career and Life Management in high school in Alberta, but it was a dreadful class when I took it. It was a combination of how to get a job/how to balance a checkbook/how not to get pregnant. The gym teacher taught it, of course!
We watched a lot of bad movies in that class all woefully outdated. There was one from the 70s with two teenage boys trying to buy condoms from a drugstore and The Mask. I am sure there were many other short films but none was so memorably awful as Johnny Lingo. Except that I couldn't remember the name. I thought it was Johnny Gringo, which didn't sound right. Google kept coughing up "Johnny Ringo" instead. Finally I typed in "johnny hawaii movie bride educational film" and thankfully the second link was YouTube.
The movie is so cringeworthy, even when I watched it back in 1994. I don't know even where to begin...in a nutshell, it's about a girl named Mahana who is considered ugly by everyone in the village and even her father is surprised that someone wants to marry her at all. He even threatens to beat her when she hides and everyone insults her. Only Johnny can see her true beauty. Today it seems like a long and problematic way to teach the value of self-worth. If you watch it, be warned...
Bonus trivia: Blaisdell Makee, who stars as Johnny Lingo, appeared in two episodes of classic Star Trek.
We watched a lot of bad movies in that class all woefully outdated. There was one from the 70s with two teenage boys trying to buy condoms from a drugstore and The Mask. I am sure there were many other short films but none was so memorably awful as Johnny Lingo. Except that I couldn't remember the name. I thought it was Johnny Gringo, which didn't sound right. Google kept coughing up "Johnny Ringo" instead. Finally I typed in "johnny hawaii movie bride educational film" and thankfully the second link was YouTube.
The movie is so cringeworthy, even when I watched it back in 1994. I don't know even where to begin...in a nutshell, it's about a girl named Mahana who is considered ugly by everyone in the village and even her father is surprised that someone wants to marry her at all. He even threatens to beat her when she hides and everyone insults her. Only Johnny can see her true beauty. Today it seems like a long and problematic way to teach the value of self-worth. If you watch it, be warned...
Bonus trivia: Blaisdell Makee, who stars as Johnny Lingo, appeared in two episodes of classic Star Trek.
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