Baby Love – 1968 | 93 mins | Drama | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Ambiguous sex drama based on the luridfirst novel by Tina Chad Christian. This relentlessly downbeat tale neverreally gets going as it runs through a series of risqué Lolita scenes to the anti-climaticending. The plot concerns the manipulative sexual manoeuvrings of a teenagevamp with a dysfunctional upbringing. Underrated actress Ann Lynn is mostimpressive in some carefully handled scenes that involve her sexual reawakeningat the hands of Linda Hayden.  Comedian DickEmery can be seen in a role far removed from his popular BBC television comedyseries.

Nymphet Luci (Linda Hayden), theillegitimate 15-year-old daughter of tramp Liz Thompson (Diana Dors), is takeninto the upper-middle-class home of her mother’s ex-lover, Dr. Robert Quayle(Keith Barron), when her mother commits suicide. After initially sufferingnightmares and sleepless nights in the Quayle household, Luci seeks to destroythe family of the man that she thinks deserted her mother, whilst concealingher precocious sexuality behind a mask of babyishness. Luci tries to seduce heradopted father, teasing his son Nick (Derek Lamden) with sexual desire andarousing latent lesbianism in the physician’s wife Amy (Ann Lynn).