Take a Girl Like You (film)

Take a Girl Like You
Directed by	Jonathan Miller
Produced by	Hal E. Chester
Written by	George Melly
Based on	Take a Girl Like You  by Kingsley Amis
Starring	Hayley Mills Oliver Reed Noel Harrison
Music by	Stanley Myers
Cinematography	Dick Bush
Edited by	Jack Harris Rex Pyke
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	December 16, 1970 (USA)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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 of the story was broadcast in 2000.

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 all 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

External links

• Take a Girl Like You at the Internet Movie Database
• Take a Girl Like You (TV Series) at the Internet Movie Database