- Country: USA
- Genres: Crime, Drama
- Release: 1959-02-01
- Director: Irvin Kershner
- Writers: Andrew J. Fenady , Gordon Hunt , Al Burton
- Language: English
- Stars: Steven Marlo , Luana Patten , Tom Selden , Joan Granville , Ed Nelson , Dan Sheridan , James Chandler , Marjorie Stapp , Miles Stephens , Edward Schaaf
- Runtime: 61 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: The Young Captives , Nattens terror (Denmark) , The Young Captives (United States of America) , Ad un passo dalla morte (Italy) , The Young Captives (United Kingdom) , Mocidade Perversa (Brazil) , Der Totschläger , Pothoi, sex kai eglima (Greece) , Nas Garras do Criminoso (Portugal, Portuguese Republic)
- Plot: Teen-age sweethearts, Benjie Whitney and Ann Howel, decide to elope to Mexico. Jamie Forbes, insane itinerant oil-field worker, who has killed his boss, runs on to them when they run out of gas and forces them to take him with them. On the way, he murders a blonde woman, at a gas station, who resents his attentions. Once in Mexico, he forces his attentions on Ann, while holding Benjie at bay with a switch-blade knife.
- IMDB:tt0053460
The Young Captives Cast · · · ALL
Irvin Kershner
Director
Steven Marlo
James Forbes
Luana Patten
Ann Howel
Tom Selden
Benjie Whitney
Ed Nelson
Norm Britt
Dan Sheridan
Dave Mahalik
James Chandler
Tony
Marjorie Stapp
Murdered Blonde
Edward Schaaf
Gas Station Attendant
William Shaw
American Officer
Dan Blocker
Oil Field Roughneck
Lenore Kingston
Other Woman
Raymond Guth
Mr. Kingston
Herb Armstrong
Mr. Howel
Peggy Moffitt
Teenager (uncredited)