A teenage girl falls in love with the English beatnik scene and
likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary
rock'n'roll. After taking an immediate dislike to her mother-in-law, she
investigates and uses the woman's sordid past to embarrass her father.
This film is sheer coolness from start to finish. The moment it opens with John Barry's stonking theme music and we see the sexy 16 year old, Gillian Hills, making her way into a grotty hall to dance like a slut with a young Oliver Reed, it's clear that this film is going to be a quality one. What makes the first scene even better are the moves that Reed is pulling out behind her, he surely must have been a heavy drinker even back then. The film also ventures off from teen rebellion and into the world of seedy British strip clubs, showing nudity that must have been very risque at the time, and capturing a sleazy kitsch style which still somehow feels gritty. Also featuring the musician Adam Faith and Christopher Lee, this definitely is of its time and an undeniable cult classic.
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