Beat Girl

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Summary: Beat Girl - my thoughts
Review: It was great to see this film becoming available again on DVD. The movie is a classic featuring a British perspective on the beat era with lots of cheesy "hep" talk and is a real must for collectors of 1960's British black & white classic's. The one issue I have with the movie is that the DVD re-issue is missing the amazingly erotic strip scene from the original cinema release- a bit of a disappointment really. If however you have not seen the original movie then enjoy!




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Summary: Aussie Amazon Customer
Review: It's a great film sure enough, but a terrible DVD. The print looks as though it was retrieved from a trash can and there are 12 important mintues missing. There is some important dialogue missing from the first scene with Christopher Lee. Next, the stripper scene is missing altogether. Then the ending is all but obliterated. Not good at all and detracts from the overall story.

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Summary: Aussie Amazon Customer
Review: It's a great film sure enough, but a terrible DVD. The print looks as though it was retrieved from the trash can and there are 12 important mintues missing. As for the reviewers - Oliver Reed a drugged out Teddy Boy, I think not, more like a simple minded beatnik. Shirley Ann Field thirty something, she'd only be about 17-18 when this film was made. Also I was on the set and watched the chicken car chase being filmed, it was at Welwyn Railway Viaduct, which can be seen in the film.

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Summary: Fatboy Slim Song
Review: It's worth noting, and it would seem I am the only person on the internet who has mentioned this, that this film soundtrack contains the Guitar licks which were sampled in Fatboy Slim's hit song the Rockefeller Skank (Right a bout now the fuink soul brother check it out now...) "down down dowdown der der dr de r DER DER!"

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Summary: TO STRIP OR NOT TO STRIP.....
Review: Lurid, low budget British exploitation JD flick about Jennifer (pouty Gillian Hills) a teen-age "beat girl" who is waiting to go completely wild. She's already sneaking out at night to join her beat friends much to the chagrin of her "square" archtitect father. But when Daddy brings home a much younger French wife named Nicole (Noelle Adam), Jennifer bristles like a porcupine. There's a strip club called Les Girls across the street from the Beat Club where Jenny's gang hangs out and it isn't long before she finds out that stepmom Nicole used to do something sleazy back in Paris. She gleans this information from a burned out stripper at Les Girls who used to "work" with Nicole. And it isn't long before Jenny wanders in to Les Girls and draws the attention of the sleazy owner (Christopher Lee, who's properly oily). Nicole frantically tries to prevent Jenny's father from finding out about her past and also to keep Jenny out of Lee's clutches. But, as plot lines go, things get out of hand. "Beat Girl" offers much in the way of cheesy entertainment. There's blaring music, a "chicken" drag race, cheap girls, lousy "rock-a-billy" songs, a wretched, obviously lip-synched number called "It's Legal" performed by pretty Shirley Anne Field ("Horrors of the Black Museum" and "Peeping Tom") who's one of the gang, some teasy strippers and an awful performance by French actress Noelle Adam who is obviously struggling with her English. Some familiar faces like Adam Faith and a young Oliver Reed as a beat guy called "Green Shirt" are here as well. Faith plays Jenny's wanna be boyfriend and he's responsible for the rock-a-billy numbers done ala Elvis. Frankly, you couldn't ask for a cheesier movie even though the film jumps in spots as though it were cut or censored. The print is pretty scratched up, too, but it's watchable. But I really liked Bardot look-a-like Hills as Jenny. She was perfectly snooty, catty and irritating to the point you couldn't wait to see her come to a bad end. If you're patient with the flaws, "Beat Girl" is a lot of trashy fun in the JD genre. As Jenny says, "Dig this and dig it real...". Enjoy.

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Summary: TO STRIP OR NOT TO STRIP.....
Review: Lurid, low budget British exploitation JD flick about Jennifer (pouty Gillian Hills) a teen-age "beat girl" who is waiting to go completely wild. She's already sneaking out at night to join her beat friends much to the chagrin of her "square" archtitect father. But when Daddy brings home a much younger French wife named Nicole (Noelle Adam), Jennifer bristles like a porcupine. There's a strip club called Les Girls across the street from the Beat Club where Jenny's gang hangs out and it isn't long before she finds out that stepmom Nicole used to do something sleazy back in Paris. She gleans this information from a burned out stripper at Les Girls who used to "work" with Nicole. And it isn't long before Jenny wanders in to Les Girls and draws the attention of the sleazy owner (Christopher Lee, who's properly oily). Nicole frantically tries to prevent Jenny's father from finding out about her past and also to keep Jenny out of Lee's clutches. But, as plot lines go, things get out of hand. "Beat Girl" offers much in the way of cheesy entertainment. There's blaring music, a "chicken" drag race, cheap girls, lousy "rock-a-billy" songs, a wretched, obviously lip-synched number called "It's Legal" performed by pretty Shirley Anne Field ("Horrors of the Black Museum" and "Peeping Tom") who's one of the gang, some teasy strippers and an awful performance by French actress Noelle Adam who is obviously struggling with her English. Some familiar faces like Adam Faith and a young Oliver Reed as a beat guy called "Green Shirt" are here as well. Faith plays Jenny's wanna be boyfriend and he's responsible for the rock-a-billy numbers done ala Elvis. Frankly, you couldn't ask for a cheesier movie even though the film jumps in spots as though it were cut or censored. The print is pretty scratched up, too, but it's watchable. But I really liked Bardot look-a-like Hills as Jenny. She was perfectly snooty, catty and irritating to the point you couldn't wait to see her come to a bad end. If you're patient with the flaws, "Beat Girl" is a lot of trashy fun in the JD genre. As Jenny says, "Dig this and dig it real...". Enjoy.

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Summary: CLASSIC PULP!!!
Review: Strippers, delinquints, and beatniks,(kind of).This movie really delivers.Gillian Hills is a frustrated teen-ager,who happens to look a lot like a young Bardot. Angry that the woman her father has married is an ex-stripper (and barely older than she is!).Gillian decides to try her hand at the age-old trade. But not before hanging out in a cave with her delinquent friends,incuding her rockabilly boyfriend(who happens to have a song for every occasion),playing chicken on some railroad tracks and dance repeatedly to John Berry's theme. Also look for Christopher Lee as an evil strip club owner.This British look at the beat generation may not be accurate, but it sure doesn't dissapoint! BEAT GIRL (a.k.a. Wild For Kicks) is a real treat for anyone who enjoys classic teen exploitation movies from the fifties and sixties.

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Summary: Hillarious!
Review: Superb camp value! My favorite scene: A 30-ish actress playing an 18 year old girl singing a song called "It's Legal." A must-have for any cheesy movie lover's collection!

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Summary: Hillarious!
Review: Superb camp value! My favorite scene: A 30-ish actress playing an 18 year old girl singing a song called "It's Legal." A must-have for any cheesy movie lover's collection!

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Summary: The Best Movie ever made in Britain!
Review: Superb low-budget masterpiece combines John (James Bond Theme) Barry's classic soundtrack with an all-pervading atmosphere of sleaze. Christopher Lee is excellent as a corrupt strip-club manager with a taste for young flesh; Gillian Hills does a very respectable British Bardot and Adam Faith struggles manfully with a role a Jazz fan (but who sings rockabilly). Plus some great strippers! Forget Gandhi, this is the best film Britain exer made.