
Paul, a divorced architect, marries Nichole, a woman from Paris. His teen daughter Jenny has fallen in with the English beatnik scene and likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary rock'n'roll. Jenny takes an immediate dislike to her step mother, who is not that much older than she, and goes out of her way to make life miserable for Nichole. When Jenny discovers that Nichole is a friend of one of the strippers from the dance hall across the street,... (Full plot summary below)
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Paul, a divorced architect, marries Nichole, a woman from Paris. His teen daughter Jenny has fallen in with the English beatnik scene and likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary rock'n'roll. Jenny takes an immediate dislike to her step mother, who is not that much older than she, and goes out of her way to make life miserable for Nichole. When Jenny discovers that Nichole is a friend of one of the strippers from the dance hall across the street, she investigates and uses Nichole's sordid past to embarrass her father. Meanwhile Jenny attracts the lecherous eye of Kenny, the owner of the dance hall.
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| Monthly Film BulletinMFB CriticsWalter Lassally's photography occasionally gives the general farrago, with its confusing time continuity, a distinction it hardly deserves. |
| Stream on DemandSean AxmakerThe mix of teenage desperation, pre-Beatles rock and roll music, and lurid sensationalism (complete with teasing nudity in the strip club) creates strange hybrid: a teen exploitation film with a film noir soul. |
| User ReviewAj VI really liked this movie, but I want to see it again, I can't remember who Lee plays. Anyway, the story is good, and the movie is dramatic and exciting while showing you what the beatnik scene was like at the time. |
| User ReviewStuart%20 POk, not the greatest film of all time but is very representative of its time as England started to go into the swinging 60's and reflects the feeling of the youth of that day, which makes this worth a watch |
| User ReviewPaul DCharts the increasing generational gap between old and young in the early 60's against some strong issues from the time. Sadly the girl is such a brat she can get annoying. |
| User ReviewLauren M"...how can she be so square if she's french?" |
| User ReviewPrivate U"My Mother was a stripper...I want to be a stripper too!" British Sleaze B-Movie! By no means a masterpiece but funny to watch. Cool jazzy, rock n roll, beatnik soundtrack too. |
| User ReviewMichael TWhat happens when Christopher Lee owns a strip club? When a teenage Gillian Hills (aka the girl from Blow Up) runs with crazy beatnik kids Adam Faith and Peter McEnery? Or when Oliver Reed gets up and dances? Beat Girl happens. A piece of teensploitation cinema which is by no means a masterpiece, a bit on the hackneyed side, but an entertaining enough 85mins. Gillian is perfect as the spoiled bratty teen with nihilist pretensions and Noelle Adam makes a convincing, slightly tragic young trophy wife; but rather unsurprisingly the best turns come from Lee and McEnery. Adam Faith is risible, as you might expect. Nice little morality melodrama. |
| User ReviewTara HOk, not the greatest film of all time but is very representative of its time as England started to go into the swinging 60's and reflects the feeling of the youth of that day, which makes this worth a watch |
| User ReviewHis L"My Mother was a stripper...I want to be a stripper too!" British Sleaze B-Movie! By no means a masterpiece but funny to watch. Cool jazzy, rock n roll, beatnik soundtrack too. |