Rag Doll (Original title)Young, Willing and Eager (Alternative title)
Date: 1960 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirector: Lance Comfort
Synopsis: Seventeen year old girl runs away from drunken stepfather and arrives in Soho, London, where she gets a job working in a coffee bar. Becoming romantically involved with a pop singer from a night club, she marries him only to discover that he is a one-time member of a Soho gang, now turned burglar. He is fatally wounded while committing a burglary and she is left pregnant.
Genre: Crime
Subjects: Soho, Pop music (the charts)
Releases
Date: 1961Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 67 mins Length: 6010 FeetDialogue (original): English
Title: [The Daily Cinema - n8441 7 Apr 1961: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v28 n328 May 1961 Page: 67
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v28 n328 May 1961: no known title]Language: English
In: Kine Weekly n2792 6 Apr 1961 Page: 22
Title: [Kine Weekly - n2792 6 Apr 1961: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(5)
Film materials(5)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-1081885
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: CTASound: SoundLength: 192 FeetStock date: 1961BFI identifier: C-620541
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: CTASound: MuteLength: 192 FeetStock date: 1959BFI identifier: C-620530
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: MuteLength: 5941 FeetStock date: 1960BFI identifier: C-501069
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 5931 FeetBFI identifier: C-501070
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Date: 1960 (Copyright)Country: United KingdomDirector: Lance Comfort
Synopsis: Seventeen year old girl runs away from drunken stepfather and arrives in Soho, London, where she gets a job working in a coffee bar. Becoming romantically involved with a pop singer from a night club, she marries him only to discover that he is a one-time member of a Soho gang, now turned burglar. He is fatally wounded while committing a burglary and she is left pregnant.
Genre: Crime
Subjects: Soho, Pop music (the charts)
Releases
Date: 1961Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 67 mins Length: 6010 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(22)
Production Company: Mancunian Film Corporation, Producer: Tom Blakeley, Production Manager: Pat Green, Assistant Director: Frank Ernst, Continuity: Marjorie Lavelly, Screenplay: Brock Williams, Screenplay: Derry Quinn, From an original story by: Brock Williams, Director of Photography: Basil Emmott, Camera Operator: Frank Drake, Editor: Peter Pitt, Art Director: John Earl, Wardrobe Mistress: Dulcie Midwinter, Makeup Artist: George Claff, Hairdresser: Barbara Barnard, Music Composed, Directed and Arranged by: Martin Slavin, "Why Am I Living" Music by: Martin Slavin, "Why Am I Living" Lyrics by: Abbe Gail, "Why Am I Living" Performed by: The Mike Sammes Singers, Sound Recording: William Bulkley, Studio: Walton Studios
Cast
(11)
Jess Conrad (Joe Shane), Hermione Baddeley ('Auntie', Princess Sophita), Kenneth Griffith (Mort Wilson), Christina Gregg (Carol), Patrick Magee (Paddy Flynn), Patrick Jordan (Wills), Michael Wynne (Bellamy), Frank Forsyth (superintendent), Marie Devereux (Ann, coffee bar waitress), Eve Eden ([Daphne]), Peter Reynolds ([uncredited])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(3)
In: The Daily Cinema n8441 7 Apr 1961 Page: 10Title: [The Daily Cinema - n8441 7 Apr 1961: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v28 n328 May 1961 Page: 67
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v28 n328 May 1961: no known title]Language: English
In: Kine Weekly n2792 6 Apr 1961 Page: 22
Title: [Kine Weekly - n2792 6 Apr 1961: no known title]Language: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(5)
Film materials(5)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-1081885
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: CTASound: SoundLength: 192 FeetStock date: 1961BFI identifier: C-620541
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: CTASound: MuteLength: 192 FeetStock date: 1959BFI identifier: C-620530
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: MuteLength: 5941 FeetStock date: 1960BFI identifier: C-501069
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 5931 FeetBFI identifier: C-501070
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film