Well, then, DD, the Americans could have had a different title for their distribution. I find on further search that the original US subtitler wanted to call Les 400 Coups by the much more reasonable title of Wild Oats; but the distributors didn't like it for some reason, leaving it in the daft situation that now obtains both here & there of making this subtle study of pre-adolescent angst sound like a bit of fladgie-porn.