Title: A Look at '50s British Youth Subculture
Product review: While Beat Girl can easily be "read" as an "youth-ploitation" film in the Chalkboard Jungle mold, it is better than most from the era in how it delves into some of the undercurrents in British youth subculture of the time. Rumor has it that a new British edition will be coming out soon -- hopefully, it will contain the footage that is missing from this edition, and will come from a cleaner print (with fewer awkward splices). Adam Faith may have had virtually all his hit singles sugar coated with orchestral strings--thereby making them more middle-of-the-road pop than rock--but in "Made You," which he sings in this film, proved that he could also rock out. Gillian Hills shows the fire that would make her a star, and John Barry's theme music--which is heard a tad too often throughout the movie--puts rock and roll into jazz in a way that few composers were doing in 1960.
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