Baby Love – 1968 | 93 mins | Drama | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Ambiguous sex drama based on the lurid first novel by Tina Chad Christian. This relentlessly downbeat tale never really gets going as it runs through a series of risqué Lolita scenes to the anti-climatic ending. The plot concerns the manipulative sexual manoeuvrings of a teenage vamp with a dysfunctional upbringing. Underrated actress Ann Lynn is most impressive in some carefully handled scenes that involve her sexual reawakening at the hands of Linda Hayden.  Comedian Dick Emery can be seen in a role far removed from his popular BBC television comedy series.

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