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Director
  
Jonathan Miller

Music director
  
S. Myers

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Story by
  
Kingsley Amis

Country
  
United Kingdom

Take a Girl Like You (film) movie poster

Release date
  
December 16, 1970 (1970-12-16) (USA)

Based on
  
Take a Girl Like You  by Kingsley Amis

Writer
  
Kingsley Amis (novel), George Melly

Cast
  
Oliver Reed
(Patrick Standish),
Hayley Mills
(Jenny Bunn),
Noel Harrison
(Julian Ormerod),
John Bird
(Dick Thompson),
Sheila Hancock
(Martha Thompson),
Geraldine Sherman
(Anna Le Page)

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,
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,
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,
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,
Below the Line
,
The Man from Hell's River

Tagline
  
In this day and age what's a virgin to do?

Take a Girl Like You is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Jonathan Miller and starring Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed and Noel Harrison. It was based on the 1960 novel Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis and was adapted by George Melly. A television adaptation was broadcast in 2000.

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Plot

In one of a small set of adult roles she did during the 1970s and 1980s, Mills plays Jenny, a good girl who comes to a small British town to start a simple life. Soon she becomes the centre of male attention around the town. Leading the pack is the honest but gruff Patrick who shares one thing along with the other men: have sex with the right girl and who he and the others consider the right girl is Jenny.

Cast

  • Hayley Mills as Jenny Bunn
  • Oliver Reed as Patrick Standish
  • Noel Harrison as Julian Ormerod
  • John Bird as Dick Thompson
  • Sheila Hancock as Martha Thompson
  • Aimi MacDonald as Wendy
  • Geraldine Sherman as Anna Le Page
  • Ronald Lacey as Graham McClintoch
  • John Fortune as Sir Gerald
  • Imogen Hassall as Samantha
  • Pippa Steel as Ted
  • Penelope Keith as Tory Lady
  • Nicholas Courtney as Panel Chairman
  • George Woodbridge as Publican
  • Jimmy Gardner as Voter
  • Nerys Hughes as Teacher
  • Jean Marlow as Mother
  • Howard Goorney as Labour Agent
  • References

    Take a Girl Like You (film) Wikipedia
    Take a Girl Like You (film) IMDb Take a Girl Like You (film) themoviedb.org