Secrets of a Windmill Girl | |
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Directed by | Arnold L. Miller |
Written by | Arnold L. Miller |
Produced by | Arnold L Miller Stanley A. Long executive Michael Klinger Tony Tenser |
Starring |
Pauline Collins April Wilding Renée Houston Derek Bond Harry Fowler Peter Gordeno |
Cinematography | Stanley A. Long |
Music by | Malcolm Lockyer |
Production company | Searchlight |
Distributed by | Compton |
Release date |
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Country | UK |
Language | English |
Secrets of a Windmill Girl is a 1966 British exploitation film directed by Arnold L. Miller. It recounts the road to ruin of a young woman ( Pauline Collins) who becomes involved with the striptease scene after becoming a dancer at the Windmill Theatre in London. [1] [2] [3] The film features fan dances by former Windmill Theatre Company performers. [4] It was originally released in Britain as part of a double bill with Naked as Nature Intended. [5]
Malcolm Lockyer composed the score, from which a suite was extracted. [6] Valerie Mitchell's single The Windmill Girls, composed by Sidney Gilbert, was used as the theme tune for the film. Mitchell was a singer and cabaret dancer, the sister of former Windmill girl Janie Jones. Dana Gillespie, aged 17 in only her second film appearance, sings and plays guitar in several brief extracts. [7]
A reviewer in TV Guide wrote that "the premise of this film is compelling, but the treatment is empty-headed"; [8] and The Spinning Image asked, "and those hoping for titillation? As with so much of the sexually-themed cinema of this (British) nation, they were offered it with a moralistic angle, as if telling the audience off for their prurience." [9]