Beat Girl 1959  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Wild for Kicks
Director: Edmond T. Greville
Cast: David Farrar, Noelle Adam, Gillian Hills, Christopher Lee, Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Field, Peter McEnery, Claire Gordon, Nigel Green, Oliver Reed, Delphi Lawrence, Michael Kayne, Anthony Singleton, Robert Raglan, Nade Beall
Teen beatnik rebel Jennifer (Gillian Hills) is not at all happy when her widowed father, Paul (David Farrar), marries young Nichole (Noelle Adam) who is not much older than Jennifer. Finding out that Nichole may have been a stripper, Jennifer becomes a stripper at the sleazy club where Nichole worked. But problems loom when lecherous club owner Kenny King (Christopher Lee) takes an interest in Jennifer.
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Foxes 1980  R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Lois Smith, Laura Dern, Roger Bowen, Adam Faith, Sloan Roberts, Jill Barrie Bogart, Wayne Storm, Mary Margaret Lewis
Four girls–Jeanie (Jodie Foster), Annie (Cherie Currie), Madge (Marilyn Kagan), and Deirdre (Kandice Stroh)–grow up in the San Fernando Valley and have more than their share of problems with sex, drugs, and alcohol. When they throw a party, matters get out of hand, and Annie is hospitalized. She escapes from the hospital, and, now, Jeanie is determined to find her.
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Never Let Go 1960 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars, Carol White, Mervyn Johns, John Le Mesurier, Adam Faith, Noel Willman, David Lodge, Peter Jones, John Bailey, Nigel Stock, John Dunbar, Charles Houston, Cyril Shaps
Cosmetic salesman John Cummings' (Richard Todd) car is stolen by a gang of car thieves, headed by Lionel Meadows (Peter Sellers). Cummings tracks down the thieves and locates Tommy Towers (Adam Faith) who stole the car. Towers is beaten after Meadows discovers that he met with Cummings. Towers then gives inside information to the police, and, eventually, Meadows is arrested, and Cummings does recover his car.
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Stardust 1974 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines Des Longchamps, Rosalind Ayres, Marty Wilde, Edd Byrnes, James Hazeldine, Keith Moon, Dave Edmunds, Paul Nicholas, Karl Howman, Richard LeParmentier, Peter Duncan, John Normington
Jim Maclaine (David Essex) is a member of a working-class British rock group that gains fame and fortune. But Jim succumbs to the trappings of money, groupies, and, finally, drugs. This film is the second part of a "two-parter"–the first was "That'll Be the Day."
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| 1. Beat Girl (1959)
aka: Wild for Kicks
2. Foxes (1980)
3. Never Let Go (1960)
4. Stardust (1974)
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