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School for Unclaimed Girls

Original title: The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
  • 1969
  • R
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
193
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School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)
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A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.

  • Director
    • Robert Hartford-Davis
  • Writers
    • John Peacock
    • Robert Hartford-Davis
  • Stars
    • Madeleine Hinde
    • Renée Asherson
    • Dennis Waterman
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.9/10
    193
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Robert Hartford-Davis
    • Writers
      • John Peacock
      • Robert Hartford-Davis
    • Stars
      • Madeleine Hinde
      • Renée Asherson
      • Dennis Waterman
    • 6User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Madeleine Hinde
    • Nicki Johnson
    • (as Madeline Hinde)
    Renée Asherson
    Renée Asherson
    • Anne Johnson
    • (as Renee Asherson)
    Dennis Waterman
    Dennis Waterman
    • Peter
    Patrick Mower
    Patrick Mower
    • Harry Spenton
    Faith Brook
    Faith Brook
    • Dr. Sands
    Janina Faye
    Janina Faye
    • Susan
    David Lodge
    David Lodge
    • Richard Johnson
    Maureen Lipman
    Maureen Lipman
    • Sarah
    Derek Fowlds
    Derek Fowlds
    • Geoffrey
    Colette O'Neil
    • Miss Waldron
    Megs Jenkins
    Megs Jenkins
    • Matron
    Cleo Sylvestre
    • Carlien
    Valerie M. Ford
    • Muriel
    • (as Valerie Wallace)
    Lesley-Anne Down
    Lesley-Anne Down
    • Diana
    • (as Lesley Downs)
    Michelle Cook
    • Jane
    Tania
    • Trixie
    Carol Rachell
    • Jean
    Cherith Mellor
    • Cherry
    • Director
      • Robert Hartford-Davis
    • Writers
      • John Peacock
      • Robert Hartford-Davis
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    • Trivia
      Madeleine Hinde receives an "introducing" credit.
    • Quotes

      Dr. Sands: Let me ask you about Harry Spenton. Did you resent his attentions to your mother?

      Nicki Johnson: Yes.

      Dr. Sands: You're a very pretty girl. He obviously could see that. Were you alone with him often? Did he make a pass at you?

      Nicki Johnson: He tried...

      Dr. Sands: Tried what?

      Nicki Johnson: He came after me... and he put his hands all over me.

      Dr. Sands: You mean he tried to make love to you?

      Nicki Johnson: Do you call that love?

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    An odd bird
    This is a rather odd movie, appearing after the JD/reform school movies of the late 50's and early 60's, but before the sleazy WIP films of the 1970's. It's also British, so all bets are off. The British are famous for being the most repressed and prudish of the European countries, but they also might be the most perverted. This film is fairly tame. It is less enjoyably trashy than similar films like "Baby Love" with Linda Hayden, the early Pete Walker effort "School for Sex", or the more violent "In the Devil's Garden", and it is definitely much less sleazy than Italian co-productions like "What Have You Done to Solange?" Still the film does contain flashes of full-frontal nudity and a completely gratuitous scene where the heroine (who looks to be about twenty five)dresses up in her school girl uniform even though she's not going to school (one for the perverts, I guess).

    The protagonist is mentally unbalanced due to the bizarre merry-go-round related death of her father and she has some strange fear and fascination with horses. She's sent to the reformatory/mental institution because she stabs her mother's loutish boyfriend after he tries to rape her. This seems like a perfectly normal reaction to me, but the school psychiatrist insists on delving into her troubled psyche to get at the root of her neurosis, thus there's a lot of Freudian psychobabble (the filmmakers had obviously seen "Marnie" a few too many times). The other girls at the institution seem somewhat less than troubled as well. It's intimated that one was a prostitute, one simply won't take a shower, and couple others are lesbians. There's a few fights, some tame sapphic foreplay,and a lot gratuitous dancing in towels and teddies, but anybody expecting a sleazy WIP film is going to be bitterly disappointed. The only recognizable star is Lesley-Ann Down but she's not prominently featured and doesn't participate in any of the lesbian or nude scenes as she really was a teenager at the time. I recommend this film, but more as a curiosity than for any sordid subject matter it may contain.
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    • Oct 17, 2004

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    • Release date
      • December 31, 1973 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Screenbound Pictures
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hell House Girls
    • Filming locations
      • Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK(made at, as Shepperton Studios, London, England)
    • Production companies
      • Titan International Productions
      • Lucinda Films
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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