Rag Doll (film)

Rag Doll, released in the USA as Young, Willing and Eager, is a 1961 British second feature[1] crime film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Christina Gregg, Kenneth Griffith, Jess Conrad and Hermione Baddeley.

Seventeen-year-old Carol flees her small-town home to escape from her alcoholic stepfather, and heads off to London where she is drawn to the sleazy excitement of Soho and finds work in a coffee bar.

Meanwhile she falls in love with handsome young would-be nightclub singer Joe Shane and soon they are a couple.

[3] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This meandering picture tells a nickelodeon story against London night life backgrounds, wastes no time on things like conviction and characterisation, but achieves nothing compensatory either.

"[4] Chibnall and McFarlane in The British 'B' Film write that the film is an "unremarkable morality tale about how the big city nearly ruins a provincial girl, but Basil Emmott's camera gives an authentic touch of drab ordinariness to the roadhouse she quits, of urban danger to the city she innocently samples, and imbues the pastoral setting of the final chase with an undertow of shabbiness.