{{Short description|1963 British film by Gerry O'Hara}} {{for|the 1952 film released in UK as That Kind of Girl|Models Inc. (film)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Use British English|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = That Kind of Girl | image = That_Kind_of_Girl_DVD_cover.jpeg | caption = DVD cover for BFI release | director = [[Gerry O'Hara]] | producer = [[Robert Hartford-Davis]] | writer = Ian Reed | based_on = story by Jan Read | starring = Margaret Rose Keil<br>David Weston<br>Linda Marlowe | music = [[Malcolm Mitchell (musician)|Malcolm Mitchell]] | cinematography = [[Peter Newbrook]] | editing = [[Derek York]] | studio = Compton-Cameo Films | distributor = Tekli Films | released = {{Film date|1963}} | runtime = 76 minutes | language = English | country = United Kingdom | budget = £23,000<ref>John Hamilton, ''Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser'', Fab Press, 2005 p. 21</ref> }}

'''''That Kind of Girl''''' (U.S. title: '''''Teenage Tramp''''') is a 1963 British film starring Margaret Rose Keil, [[David Weston (actor)|David Weston]] and [[Linda Marlowe]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=That Kind of Girl |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150005708 |access-date=10 November 2023 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> Written by Ian Reed based on a story by Jan Read, it was the directorial debut of [[Gerry O'Hara]], and produced by [[Robert Hartford-Davis]]. [[Michael Klinger (producer)|Michael Klinger]] and [[Tony Tenser]] were executive producers.

==Plot== Eva Koenig is a promiscuous 18-year-old Austrian girl working as an au pair with a London family. She becomes sexually involved with several different men in turn – Elliot, a creepy and manipulative older man; Max, an idealistic ban-the-bomb peace campaigner; and Keith, a student in a relationship with his childhood sweetheart. When Eva contracts [[syphilis]] and passes it on, there are major implications for all involved.

==Cast== * Margaret Rose Keil as Eva Koenig * [[David Weston (actor)|David Weston]] as Keith Murray * [[Linda Marlowe]] as Janet Bates * [[Peter Burton]] as Elliot Collier * [[Frank Jarvis (actor)|Frank Jarvis]] as Max * [[Sylvia Kay]] as Mrs. Millar * David Davenport as Mr. Millar

==Production== Gerry O'Hara was an assistant director when offered the film. In a 2010 interview <ref name="screen">{{cite web |last=Dixon |first=Wheeler Winston |date=3 December 2010 |title=Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O’Hara |url=http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-30-first-release/working-within-the-system-an-interview-with-gerry-o%E2%80%99hara/ |website=Screening the Past}}</ref> he said "I think the guy who offered it to me, Robert Hartford-Davis, thought he was going to direct me! It was an exploitation picture, pure and simple, about venereal disease.&nbsp;... It was a three-week shoot, 17 days. The night that we finished, I went back to my flat and I was absolutely exhausted. We had no money, so we just had a few beers in a pub, and that was the end of the picture party. They didn’t even want me to edit it, or do any of the finishing stages. I think I got £750 for a three-week shoot."

==Release== ===Critical response=== ''[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' said: "The story is sheer melodrama, running the weird gamut of anti-nuclear demonstration, striptease, pre-marital intercourse, rape and improper use of the telephone – scarcely a digestible mixture."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1963 |title=That Kind of Girl |journal=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=30 |issue=348 |pages=70}}</ref>

''[[Sight and Sound]]'' wrote (2010): "On the one hand, the film portrays a society in which the old certainties about class, sexuality and politics are being questioned. In its more louche moments, it is even reminiscent of [[Val Guest]]'s later 1970s softcore romp ''[[Au Pair Girls]]'' in its portrayal of Eva, the uninhibited and promiscuous foreigner who so excites the buttoned-up Brits.&nbsp;... Despite its inadvertently comic moments and moralising tone, the film is well enough crafted and acted to seem like more than just a piece of heavyhanded public-health propaganda."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Macnab |first=Geoffrey |date=April 2010 |title=That Kind of Girl |journal=[[Sight and Sound]] |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=88–89}}</ref>

In ''Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema'' (2019) Laura Mayne writes: "Significantly, [the film] also featured the German Margaret Rose Keil, whose deviant actions were therefore easier to pass the censor because she was considered 'exotic'.&nbsp;... In ''That Kind of Girl'' the desire to inform as well as educate is a key feature of the film's highly moralistic 'it could happen to you' narrative."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mayne |first=Laura |title=Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] |year=2019 |isbn=9781474423113 |pages=130–131 |chapter=The Vertically Integrated Independent}}</ref>

===Home media=== ''That Kind of Girl'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on the [[BFI Flipside|BFI's Flipside]] imprint on 25 January 2009.<ref> {{Cite web | last = Foster | first = Dave | title = BFI Flipside in January | url=http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content/id/71896/bfi-flipside-in-january.html | accessdate = 1 December 2009 }}</ref> The disc also includes a selection of short films and an interview with Robert Hartford-Davis (1968, 14 mins) in which he discusses his film career and production methods.

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0057574|That Kind of Girl}}

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