School for Unclaimed Girls (1969) Robert Hartford-Davis

Genre: Crime | Drama

Country: UK | Director: Robert Hartford-Davis

Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 91mn

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 Nicki Johnson (Madeleine Hinde) suffers with a guilt complex because she thinks she was responsible for the accidental death of her father (David Lodge). Now a teenager, she regularly plays truant from school with her boyfriend Peter (Dennis Waterman). Nicki's mother, Anne (Renée Asherson), drops a bombshell by announcing she intends to marry her gold digging young boyfriend, Harry (Patrick Mower).

One afternoon Nicki returns home following a fall from her horse, and Harry attempts to seduce her whilst also revealing he now has possession of her trust fund. During the ensuing struggle Harry is stabbed and seriously injured, and Nicki duly imprisoned in a harsh remand home for girls. The remand home is residence to a number of girls with different problems and bullying is widespread. Following an altercation with another girl, Nicki and her lesbian friend Sarah (Maureen Lipman) decide to runaway rather than face the prospect of borstal. Now on the run and wanted by the police, Nicki seeks out her boyfriend Peter, and finds refuge living in the downstairs flat of his employer, pervy antiques dealer Geoffrey (Derek Fowlds).

Despite it's hothouse retitling as School For Unclaimed Girls, this film is a fairly easygoing tale of a girl gone ever so slightly bad and the lesbians she meets in the aforementioned school. There is a fair amount of full frontal nudity, some rather chaste lesbian kisses, and a little bid of bloodshed. It all adds up to not very much, though fans of late 60s British quota quickies will definitely want to catch it. Producer Peter Newbrook went on to direct the horror fave The Asphyx, director Robert Hartford-Davis was also responsible for Incense For the Damned and The Fiend, and scribe John Peacock went on to pen Hammer's To the Devil A Daughter.