Beat Girl

Beat Girl (1960)

"My mother was a stripper... I want to be a stripper too!"

When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.

Date of release
1960-08-21
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (37)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Drama
Director
Edmond T. Gréville

Casting

Interesting facts

Beat Girl is a 1960 British teen exploitation drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville. The film was released in the United States under the title Wild for Kicks.

Production

George Minter, who ran Renown Pictures, said he wanted to make a picture "for the kids".

Gillian Hills had been discovered by Roger Vadim, who considered casting her in Les liaisons dangereuses. He elected not to do so, and Hills made her film debut in this movie instead.

Filming started 27 July 1959. The movie was filmed at MGM-British Studios at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, UK, with exteriors filmed in Soho and Chislehurst Caves (then in Kent).

Pascaline, the Haitian exotic dancer who appears in a sequence performing with a scarf, had performed in real life as an exotic dancer at the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris.

After Adam Faith was cast, John Barry was asked to compose the film soundtrack, because he had already been collaborating with Faith as an arranger.

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