Beat Girl is a Britishfilm about the early youth culture made even before the "swinging" years. By later standards, it is laughably tame. Its teenage rebels aren't what you would expect _ not only do they not engage in sex, nor do they get drunk, but hate booze, and have never heard of drugs _ but the lead male hates fighting. The only recognizable genre characters are the Teddy Boys who start a fight at the end.
The film features Christopher Lee as a strip-joint operator. The music was done by a seven-player group of John Barry.
The lead name in all titles is that of Noelle Adam, a French actress. She does not play the "Beat Girl" of the title, but rather the young stepmother, only ten years older than the title character. The father is an "urban renewal" architect. Although the title character's mother went about in the jazz milieu, Adam plays a square.
BeatGirl, banned in England for many years, stars Gillian Hills as an ice-robot art school princess whose only joy in life seems to be sneaking out of the house after the "squares" have gone to sleep, to head off to the local beatnik hangout where she smokes, sulks and disdains alcohol with her friends.
BeatGirl, the spitting image of Bridgette Bardot, pauses on the stairs, smirking as the perkier teens race down behind her.
In one scene, BeatGirl dances seductively for one of the petulant teen boys in her crowd, but it’s obvious from the way the camera follows her eye several times to Nicole’s room upstairs that she’s doing it purely to piss off Nicole, not to satisfy any hormone-raging lust.
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