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My Teenage Daughter (1956)

My Teenage Daughter poster
Directed by
Herbert Wilcox
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mother struggles to keep her teenage daughter out of trouble. The girl starts hanging out with a bad crowd and behaving badly.

tensemelancholicearnestdatedconcernedseriousmildly dramatic

What happens

My Teenage Daughter (also known as Teenage Bad Girl) is a 1956 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms and Norman Wooland. It was written by Felicity Douglas and concerns a mother who tries to deal with her teenage daughter's descent into delinquency. It was intended as a British response to Rebel Without a Cause (1955). It was the last commercially successful film made by Wilcox. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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