Baby Love is a 1969 British drama film directed by Alastair Reid and starring Diana Dors, Linda Hayden, Keith Barron and Ann Lynn.

[2] It was written by Reid, Guido Coen and Michael Klinger, based on the 1968 novel Baby Love by Tina Chad Christian.

Film rights were bought by producer Michael Klinger, who had just left Compton, a production company he had run with Tony Tenser.

[1] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: Alastair Reid's film makes no attempt to modify the crude contrasts and lurid events that formed the basis of Tina Chad Christian's first novel: the poverty of the northern slum and the ultra-chic of the doctor's environment remain equally overstated, shown essentially as they appear to the self-dramatising nymphet heroine.

But partly because we are spared the precocious auto-analysis of Luci's commentary and her behaviour thus goes largely unexplained by any facile clinical labels, the film somehow transcends its inherent sensationalism and the gloss of its surfaces.

And the performances of both Ann Lynn as the neglected wife and Linda Hayden as the enigmatic "outsider who is neither a child nor a woman convey, in very different registers, the difficulty of assuming responsibility either for emotions experienced or passions provoked.

[7]Howard Thompson of The New York Times gave the film a positive review, praising the technical brilliance and writing: "Ugly as it is in flavor and content, the picture is a genuine pint-sized spellbinder in construction, mood and mounting tension.