A runaway schoolgirl falls amongst chorus girls planning to marry into nobility.A runaway schoolgirl falls amongst chorus girls planning to marry into nobility.A runaway schoolgirl falls amongst chorus girls planning to marry into nobility.
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- TriviaVariety felt the material was too distasteful for US audiences. When the film was eventually released stateside two years later it was trimmed from 89 minutes to 62 minutes, so almost half an hour of footage was cut.
- Quotes
Penelope: If you've got any savvy, you'll go along and try yer luck.
Leslie James: I'd like to. I don't think I can dance well enough.
Penelope: Well, neither can 'alf the girls that go along - they just bluff. All you've got to do in a Joe Gold show is kick like a mule, grin like an ape and waggle the rest.
- ConnectionsReferenced in All Creatures Great and Small: Carpe Diem (2023)
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The main pleasure of this film is its snappy script (I suspect it would take several viewings to catch all the quickfire barbs that the girls fling at each other). The singing and dancing isn't up to much -- this isn't supposed to be West End stuff, but the cast of a distinctly second-rate outfit, Joe Gold's Golden Girls -- but the cattiness on display is top-notch.
The plot centres around three girls, the Nice One, the Exotic One and the Common One, all out to hook the same man; the outcome is, of course, no surprise. There is also a subplot concerning a kleptomaniac con-man and his various schemes, plus an array of 'types' on display, from the wealthy northern industrialist (or in this case, fur-merchant) to the superannuated Shakespearian actor, the tippling butler, the sound-effects lady from the BBC (she first starred as "the scream in 'East Lynne'"), and the sex-mad chorus line. With hindsight, the plot is pretty slender (we never do learn anything much about who the runaway heroine really is) and the ending a bit flat, but the fun to be had is in trying to follow the dialogue and catch all the assorted insults and innuendoes.
Nothing very special, but worth a look or a recommendation to a friend for an undemanding night's entertainment. There's no depth to speak of below the quick-moving surface, but the quips run fast and furious and the girls are as hardboiled as they come.
The plot centres around three girls, the Nice One, the Exotic One and the Common One, all out to hook the same man; the outcome is, of course, no surprise. There is also a subplot concerning a kleptomaniac con-man and his various schemes, plus an array of 'types' on display, from the wealthy northern industrialist (or in this case, fur-merchant) to the superannuated Shakespearian actor, the tippling butler, the sound-effects lady from the BBC (she first starred as "the scream in 'East Lynne'"), and the sex-mad chorus line. With hindsight, the plot is pretty slender (we never do learn anything much about who the runaway heroine really is) and the ending a bit flat, but the fun to be had is in trying to follow the dialogue and catch all the assorted insults and innuendoes.
Nothing very special, but worth a look or a recommendation to a friend for an undemanding night's entertainment. There's no depth to speak of below the quick-moving surface, but the quips run fast and furious and the girls are as hardboiled as they come.
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- Igenlode Wordsmith
- Aug 9, 2006
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- A Girl Has to Live
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- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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