BEAT GIRL

Jennifer Linden, neglected by her architect father Paul and jealous of his new French wife Nicole, spends her time in coffee bars with her friends Dave, Tony and Dodo. She repulses Nicole's friendly overtures, then sees her snub Greta, a stripdancer who evidently knows her. After visiting the Soho club where Greta works, run by her lover Kenny, Jennifer warns Nicole that if she is not left alone she will tell Paul that his wife was once a Paris dancer. A teenage party given by Jennifer at home without adult permission ends with her doing a striptease just as Nicole and Paul appear. She tells all about Nicole, then flees into the night. Paul assures Nicole that he still loves her and they rush to Soho, arriving in time to comfort Jennifer after the shock of seeing Greta stab Kenny for making a pass at her.

"With Soho striptease, Teddy boys, pop songs, jiving in Chislehurst caves, a sports car chicken run, stepmother trouble, a wife with a past, teenage tantrums, and a race to save a Bardotlike heroine from the clutches of a rogue with two plane tickets to Paris, this film is nothing if not eclectic. Yet the scenes with the youngsters somehow achieve a certain liveliness. Pop singer Adam Faith, when he abandons his mobile invisible echo chamber and troubles to articulate, has an attractively sad and worldweary air and combines well with Peter McEnery and Shirley Ann Field in comic, sessions of adolescent selfpity." ("Monthly Film Bulletin", n. 322, November 1960, p. 154)

Director: Edmond T. Greville.
Screenplay: Dail Ambler.
Director of photography: Walter Lassally.
Editor: Gordon Pilkington.
Art director: Elven Webb.
Music: John Barry.
Sound: Cyril Swern.
Cast: David Farrar (Paul Linden), Noelle Adam (Nicole), Christopher Lee (Kenny), Gillian Hills (Jennifer), Adam Faith (Dave), Shirley Ann Field (Dodo), Peter McEnery (Tony), Claire Gordon (Honey), Nigel Green (Simon), Oliver Reed.
Production company: George Willoughby per la Renow.