Corarito's film was shot on 35mm during 1974 and was released to American cinemas in its 89-minute cut in March 1975. A heavily truncated 58-minute print titled
Delinquent School Girls appeared on home video (both in America and England, on the TCX label) in the early 1980s, the shorter version of the film deletes most of the opening half hour including all of George ‘Buck’ Flowers scenes. Another pseudonym the film had at this time was
Scrubbers 2, obviously designed to cash in on the success of the entirely serious reform school drama
Scrubbers (directed by Mai Zetterling) which had recently shocked cinema audiences. However, when Corarito's grindhouse flick was submitted to the
BBFC in 1986 in its pre-cut 58-minute form, its title now changed to
Delinquents, the board's then-director
James Ferman ordered over nine minutes of cuts before granting it an
18 certificate. The film had a British cinema release in 1976 under the title
Sizzlers, on the bottom half of a double bill with the British-made
Intimate Games (1976). (The BBFC website records show the film was passed with an
X rating after cuts, with a running time of 82 minutes.) ==DVD release==