The Yes Girls

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The Yes Girls
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Film titles
Directed by Lindsay Shonteff
Written byLindsay Shonteff
Produced byLindsay Shonteff
Starring Sue Bond
Cinematography John C. Taylor
Edited byJackson Bodell
Music by Alan Gorrie
Production
company
Lindsay Shonteff Film Productions Ltd.
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Yes Girls, also known as Take Some Girls and Excitement Girls, is a 1972 British film directed by Lindsay Shonteff and starring Sue Bond and Sally Muggeridge. [1] A woman escapes from a school for delinquent girls and becomes involved with a lecherous porn director.

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Plot

Maria Carter has recently escaped from an approved school and in London meets aspiring actress Angela and her room-mate Caron. The three girls get parts in a low-budget sexploitation movie called Flesh in the Fields, which against all odds turns out to land Maria a Hollywood deal.

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Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A low budget sex movie about the making of a low budget sex movie. The 'Hollywood looks at Hollywood' formula has been adapted in an appropriately basic way and the humour relentlessly excavates every cliché. The producer grinds his teeth on an everlasting cigar over every item of expenditure, while his disconsolate director is ever eager to find an artistic angle, even when ordered to 'get a close-up of Maria's joggling, roly-poly charms. The three girls have, however, some genuine charm of their own and there is something horribly apt about the film-within-a-film they turn out – an ultimate in primitive nudie pics that looks like a titillating interlude from The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film [1959]." [2]

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References

  1. "The Yes Girls". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  2. "The Yes Girls". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 39 (456): 82. 1 January 1972 via ProQuest.