cult film freak: shirley anne field

Written by James M. Tate / 9/16/2023 / No comments / alexander knox , british neo noir , david gregory , hammer films , james maxwell , joseph losey , kenneth cope , macdonald carey , oliver reed , shirley anne field , sixties , tom kempinski , viveca lindfors , walter gotell

OLIVER REED REBELS THROUGH HAMMER'S 'THESE ARE THE DAMNED'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLutkHScxquBpjNefPjnp3XAQfpq7A69R6c7m918r7ExkJ4sjXlIH1BL206KaoihZcTBw9AUQMWxvNThyFEMd5cKGZudGGC7M8piI4pfNucTjjawaowOByRPBxqLwWuEv2P9yD578zTU0WzrN81Mw9DCNB3VSpBbCCtcNUhsiokLJOfQKYPOC6db5Cgi7-/s1862/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-26%20at%209.39.56%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1862" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLutkHScxquBpjNefPjnp3XAQfpq7A69R6c7m918r7ExkJ4sjXlIH1BL206KaoihZcTBw9AUQMWxvNThyFEMd5cKGZudGGC7M8piI4pfNucTjjawaowOByRPBxqLwWuEv2P9yD578zTU0WzrN81Mw9DCNB3VSpBbCCtcNUhsiokLJOfQKYPOC6db5Cgi7-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-26%20at%209.39.56%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver Reed in THESE ARE THE DAMNED Year: 1962 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Hammer's THESE ARE THE DAMNED has a double-edged title starting with a Teddy Boy gang (young punks from England's 1950's/1960's who dressed in Victorian-era used-clothe leftovers) led by Oliver Reed... And he's in what seems an incestuous relationship with sexy sibling Shirley Anne Field, who... while the boys whistle the tune of a corny song that'd just conducted their street-savvy march into town... picks up on older, classy American, Macdonald Carey, so he can be deliberately clobbered, robbed...

alexander knox, british neo noir, david gregory, hammer films, james maxwell, joseph losey, kenneth cope, macdonald carey, oliver reed, shirley anne field, sixties, tom kempinski, viveca lindfors, walter gotell

OLIVER REED REBELS THROUGH HAMMER'S 'THESE ARE THE DAMNED'

Oliver Reed in THESE ARE THE DAMNED Year: 1962 Rating: **** Hammer's THESE ARE THE DAMNED has a double-edged title starting with a Teddy...

Written by James M. Tate / 5/08/2022 / No comments / beatnik , british new wave , carol white , christopher lee , claire gordon , david farrar , david gregory , delphi lawrence , exploitation , gillian hills , jazz-score , noëlle adam , oliver reed , shirley anne field , sixties

YOUNG BRITISH BLONDE BEAUTY GILLIAN HILLS AS 'BEAT GIRL'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRrpD2-OWAzCwv4qOZtgfJuONutzmXZD_WArrMRhpGb9hRpcq2BBrqwh2ttylqGcqhbM59YZUZ06zyrY26JpG4tTm-JzHj6V5UjbOLixRT3UIpi13CJxNxTP-sgDdRxZED_wkagm3pEcl0KHeYmtYG8ovlOaA_XQG03Usptzh30G4jUzbRD-FCmBGmaDfI/s2482/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-21%20at%202.09.24%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="2482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRrpD2-OWAzCwv4qOZtgfJuONutzmXZD_WArrMRhpGb9hRpcq2BBrqwh2ttylqGcqhbM59YZUZ06zyrY26JpG4tTm-JzHj6V5UjbOLixRT3UIpi13CJxNxTP-sgDdRxZED_wkagm3pEcl0KHeYmtYG8ovlOaA_XQG03Usptzh30G4jUzbRD-FCmBGmaDfI/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-21%20at%202.09.24%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gillian Hills and Christopher Lee in BEAT GIRL Year: 1960</td></tr></tbody></table>BEAT GIRL is like two movies in one, and both are pretty great with the insanely gorgeous Gillian Hills, a hybrid of Sue Lyon's LOLITA and Diane Lane in RUMBLE FISH: All three looking dynamic in B&W while this more obscure gem centers on teenagers wild about the Stateside "hopeless and soapless" Beatnik movement, grooving to the jazz score of composer John Barry (featuring his live John Barry Seven)... 
 
And when the wayward/lackadaisical youngsters aren't hanging-out, the main plot centers solely on Gillian's Jennifer Linden, a rich spoiled brat of sixteen (her real age), who unfairly loathes her architect father David Farrar's new wife (Noelle Adam), a pretty yet earthy, twenty-something French girl — with a past...

beatnik, british new wave, carol white, christopher lee, claire gordon, david farrar, david gregory, delphi lawrence, exploitation, gillian hills, jazz-score, noëlle adam, oliver reed, shirley anne field, sixties

YOUNG BRITISH BLONDE BEAUTY GILLIAN HILLS AS 'BEAT GIRL'

Gillian Hills and Christopher Lee in BEAT GIRL Year: 1960 BEAT GIRL is like two movies in one, and both are pretty great with the insanely ...

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