The Girl, the Body, and the Pill

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The Girl, The Body and The Pill
Directed by	Herschell Gordon Lewis
Produced by	Herschell Gordon Lewis Sidney J. Reich
Written by	Allison Louise Downe
Starring	Pamela Rhae Bill Rogers Valedia Hill Nancy Lee Noble Roy Collodi
Distributed by	Box Office Spectaculars
Release date(s)	1967
Running time	80 min.
Language	English
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The Girl, The Body and The Pill was a film made in 1967 and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis.

[edit] Plot

Always in search of uncharted exploitation territory, Lewis turns his attention this time to the then-controversial topic of birth control. Given the nature of the film, it is surprising that it contains practically no overt sexual situations beyond a couple suggestive dissolves. One of Lewis's more multifaceted productions, The Girl, the Body, and the Pill follows the subject through multiple perspectives. We see a liberal high school teacher (Pamela Rhea) advocating for sex education as a means of promoting proper hygiene among her rapidly developing adolescent students. Her efforts to promote planned parenthood meet with fierce opposition from the school board as well as the parents of several of the students. Actually, one parent in particular, the hyperprotective puritanical father (Bill Rogers) of a virginal daughter whose boyfriend wants to go all the way, is the loudest voice to oppose such education. The film additionally follows the exploits of the school's most promiscuous student, Randy (Nancy Lee Noble), and that of her considerably more promiscuous single mother(Valedia Hill).

As part of her co-ed hygiene curriculum, Pamela has begun recently to encroach the subject of sex, despite lack of official backing from the school board. Soon, the school principal expresses disapproval of this curriculum, forcing Pamela to continue to conduct the classes in her own home. The daughter of the chief opponent to this hygienic education meanwhile struggles with balancing her love of her boyfriend with maintaining her prudence. A lustful group of teenage boys, one of whom is currently engaging in relations with Randy, discuss their collective attraction to Pamela. Upon further investigation, Pamela becomes outraged that the local pharmacies refuse to dispense birth control to teenage girls out of principle. Randy, meanwhile, is in danger of running out of her contraceptive pills, prompting her to steal them from her mother and replace them with saccharine tablets. Lucky for her, as Randy's "boyfriend" decides to share his good fortune among his group of oversexed teenage male friends one night in the back seat of his car, in spite of Randy's resistance.

While all this goes on, Rogers, who clearly states his dissatisfaction in his own marriage and frustration over the fact that their daughter was an unplanned pregnancy, sets out to gather support for his cause from some of the other parents. Of course, who does he contact first but Randy's mom. It doesn't take long before he hypocritically succumbs to the temptation of the truck-stop vixen, and carries on an affair. Confident in the effectiveness of her birth control, Valenia thinks nothing of protection during this triste until, lo and behold, she becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, Rogers' daughter stands her ground and maintains her virtue, prompting her boyfriend to hook up with Randy to satisfy his burgeoning needs. An attempt to rape Pamela, an abortion, and a series of redemption-seeking sequences closes out the film.

[edit] External links

The Girl, The Body and The Pill at the Internet Movie Database

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Films directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

The Prime Time (1960) • Living Venus (1960) • The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (1961) • Daughter of the Sun (1962) • Nature's Playmates (1962) • Goldilocks and The Three Bares (1963) • BOING-N-G! (1963) • Scum of the Earth (1963) • Bell, Bare and Beautiful (1963) • Blood Feast (1963) • Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) • Moonshine Mountain (1964) • Color Me Blood Red (1965) • Monster A Go-Go (1965) • Sin, Suffer and Repent (1965) • An Eye For An Eye (1966) • Jimmy, the Boy Wonder (1966) • The Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967) • Suburban Roulette (1967) • A Taste of Blood (1967) • Something Weird (1967) • The Gruesome Twosome (1967) • The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (1967) • Blast-Off Girls (1967) • She Devils on Wheels (1968) • Just for the Hell of It (1968) • How To Make a Doll (1968) • The Psychic (1968) • Linda and Abilene (1969) • The Ecstasies of Women (1969) • The Wizard of Gore (1970) • Miss Nymphet's Zap-In (1970) • This Stuff'll Kill Ya! (1971) • Black Love (1972) • Year of the Yahoo! (1972) • The Gore Gore Girls (1972) • Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)