# That Kind of Girl > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/That_Kind_of_Girl > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/That_Kind_of_Girl.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Kind_of_Girl > Source revision: 1339322014 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1963 British film by Gerry O'Hara For the 1952 film released in UK as That Kind of Girl, see [Models Inc. (film)](/source/Models_Inc._(film)). That Kind of Girl DVD cover for BFI release Directed by Gerry O'Hara Written by Ian Reed Based on story by Jan Read Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis Starring Margaret Rose Keil David Weston Linda Marlowe Cinematography Peter Newbrook Edited by Derek York Music by Malcolm Mitchell Production company Compton-Cameo Films Distributed by Tekli Films Release date 1963 (1963) Running time 76 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English Budget £23,000[1] ***That Kind of Girl*** (U.S. title: ***Teenage Tramp***) is a 1963 British film starring Margaret Rose Keil, [David Weston](/source/David_Weston_(actor)) and [Linda Marlowe](/source/Linda_Marlowe).[2] Written by Ian Reed based on a story by Jan Read, it was the directorial debut of [Gerry O'Hara](/source/Gerry_O'Hara), and produced by [Robert Hartford-Davis](/source/Robert_Hartford-Davis). [Michael Klinger](/source/Michael_Klinger_(producer)) and [Tony Tenser](/source/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](/source/Syphilis) and passes it on, there are major implications for all involved. ## Cast - Margaret Rose Keil as Eva Koenig - [David Weston](/source/David_Weston_(actor)) as Keith Murray - [Linda Marlowe](/source/Linda_Marlowe) as Janet Bates - [Peter Burton](/source/Peter_Burton) as Elliot Collier - [Frank Jarvis](/source/Frank_Jarvis_(actor)) as Max - [Sylvia Kay](/source/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 [3] 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. ... 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](/source/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."[4] *[Sight and Sound](/source/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](/source/Val_Guest)'s later 1970s softcore romp *[Au Pair Girls](/source/Au_Pair_Girls)* in its portrayal of Eva, the uninhibited and promiscuous foreigner who so excites the buttoned-up Brits. ... 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."[5] 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'. ... 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."[6] ### Home media *That Kind of Girl* was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on the [BFI's Flipside](/source/BFI_Flipside) imprint on 25 January 2009.[7] 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 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** John Hamilton, *Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser*, Fab Press, 2005 p. 21 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["That Kind of Girl"](https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150005708). *British Film Institute Collections Search*. Retrieved 10 November 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-screen_3-0)** Dixon, Wheeler Winston (3 December 2010). ["Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O'Hara"](http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-30-first-release/working-within-the-system-an-interview-with-gerry-o%E2%80%99hara/). *Screening the Past*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** "That Kind of Girl". *[Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/Monthly_Film_Bulletin)*. **30** (348): 70. 1 January 1963. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Macnab, Geoffrey (April 2010). "That Kind of Girl". *[Sight and Sound](/source/Sight_and_Sound)*. **20** (4): 88–89. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Mayne, Laura (2019). "The Vertically Integrated Independent". *Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema*. [Edinburgh University Press](/source/Edinburgh_University_Press). pp. 130–131. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781474423113](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781474423113). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Foster, Dave. ["BFI Flipside in January"](http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content/id/71896/bfi-flipside-in-january.html). Retrieved 1 December 2009. ## External links - [*That Kind of Girl*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057574/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [That Kind of Girl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Kind_of_Girl) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Kind_of_Girl?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.