{"id":32633,"date":"2013-10-29T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T18:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=32633"},"modified":"2020-11-29T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T18:56:10","slug":"bad-girl-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=32633","title":{"rendered":"Bad Girl (1956)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Kindly allow me to choose my own friends!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Poster-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Poster-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Poster-128x100.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Poster-1024x803.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Poster.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA widowed editor (Anna Neagle) reluctantly dates a handsome client (Norman Wooland) while becoming increasingly concerned about her rebellious daughter (Sylvia Syms), who is spending more and more time with a jive-loving hepster (Kenneth Haigh).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/genres.html#delinquents\">Juvenile Delinquents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/genres.html#teenagers\">Teenagers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nReportedly made as a British response to <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5513\"><em>Rebel Without a Cause<\/em> (1955)<\/a>, this collaboration by husband\/wife team Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle is a competently directed but uninspired teen-angst flick. Neagle&#8217;s stoic-mother performance is just a tad shy of Joan-Crawford-territory &#8212; but that tad makes all the difference, in the wrong direction; her reactions and expressions are predictable through and through. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms-128x85.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Wooland is simply forgettable as her conveniently understanding and handsome suitor. The best feature of the film is Sylvia Syms (in her screen debut) as the pretty young protagonist, who&#8217;s torn between a desire to remain her mother&#8217;s &#8220;good&#8221; eldest daughter, and her itch to explore the wild-and-woolly world of soul-corrupting jive. The screenplay becomes needlessly melodramatic in its final third, as Neagle and Syms are provided with further opportunities to explore their complicated mother-daughter dynamic, and the overall tenor of the film begins to feel more like a &#8220;women&#8217;s weepie&#8221; than anything else. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sylvia Syms as Janet Carr<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms2.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms2-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms2-128x85.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bad-Girl-Syms2-405x270.png 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; feel free to skip this one. Listed as a Sleeper in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0049530\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmovie.com\/movie\/my-teenage-daughter-v132655\">All Movie Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kindly allow me to choose my own friends!&#8221; Synopsis: A widowed editor (Anna Neagle) reluctantly dates a handsome client (Norman Wooland) while becoming increasingly concerned about her rebellious daughter (Sylvia Syms), who is spending more and more time with a jive-loving hepster (Kenneth Haigh). Genres: Juvenile Delinquents Teenagers Review: Reportedly made as a British response to Rebel Without a Cause (1955), this collaboration by husband\/wife team Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle is a competently directed but uninspired teen-angst flick. Neagle&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=32633\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32633"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55669,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633\/revisions\/55669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}