Review of Beat Girl (1960) by Michael T — 07 Oct 2011
What 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.
This review of Beat Girl (1960) was written by Michael T on 07 Oct 2011.
Beat Girl has generally received mixed reviews.
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