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Girls Beware (1961)

Like its precursor Name Unknown (1951), Girls Beware is a trilogy of tragedies brought about by teenage girls' attempts at independent behavior. Covers do's and don'ts in the babysitting situation. Develops the problem of the 'PICK UP' and the girls who go with boys that are too old.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Production Company: Davis (Sid) Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, b/w
Keywords: need keyword

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: ERD - - June 26, 2006
Subject: Good during its era
For 1951, "GIrls Beware" was an excellent film for teenage girls. Well filmed and directed. Of course now the film seems dated, although some points still make sense.

Reviewer: Love thy neighbour - - March 30, 2006
Subject: babysitting
Just when i was about to accept an offer to babysit, i see this movie. I think that says it all! And the whole older boys thing was a bit much! The movie basically says not to take an interest in older guys. And as i am in love with my older neighbour i didn't take to this movie!

Reviewer: Pug - - December 26, 2004
Subject: Laugh until you drop, if you're strange like me.
Films like this make me want to fall out of my chair laughing. The idea is fine enough, but the methods of explaining getting pregnant and being raped are so roundabout to our 2000's-era minds that the attempt at creating a brooding tone just turns comic.

Show this to your significant other if you two need a nostalgic chuckle some day. Worth downloading.

Reviewer: Marysz - - September 6, 2004
Subject: Watch Out, Girls
Policewoman Norma Neufner narrates this film about the perils that face too-trusting teenage girls. Judy get a call from a stranger about a baby sitting job and ends up murdered. Elizabeth meets two older boys at a movie theatre and is raped. Mary goes out with older, unemployed Robert and ends up ÃÂin trouble,ÃÂ the fifties euphemism for pregnant. In each instance, the parents are the last to know. In Sid DavisÃÂs world, parents are unable to protect their children from the dangers that lurk in the suburban netherworld we see in his films. The fathers are usually absent and the mothers live isolated lives in dreary, postwar bungalows. Girls have to learn on their own how to protect themselvesÃÂnot to open the door to strangers and to avoid too-friendly older boys.

ItÃÂs easy to see why these girls could be so easily victimized. What does their environment really offer them? As is the case in its companion film, ÃÂBoys Beware,ÃÂ the loneliness and longing for recognition on the part of the young victims is palpable. As the policeman narrator in ÃÂBoys BewareÃÂ tells us, these children are ensnared by the ÃÂcompanionship, praise and a friendly attitude.ÃÂ If these girls were getting the recognition from their parents and teachers that they need, they wouldnÃÂt be so susceptible to aimless boys in pick-up trucks.

Reviewer: dan b - - October 6, 2003
Subject: Girls Beware
A cool but sobering glimpse of some of the dangers of being a teenage girl in the late 50's. The visuals are great in this film, like the drive in diner, the custom pickup truck and the teens themselves. I guess the warnings were and still are valid, but I can't help but think that movies like this probably encouraged unwise behaviour as much as discouraged it. A great watch!

Reviewer: Steve Nordby - - September 20, 2003
Subject: This ain't no picnic
The paranoia here is down just slightly from Boys Beware. Although the first example is an adult, the focus is on boys who like younger girls, so they are obviously sick and maladjusted. Highlight: the announcer says "she complied with his desires," the camera jerkily pans up to the sky and next thing you know she's off to the juvie.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - September 18, 2003
Subject: Oh the horrors! Oh the music!
Great little scare film, underscored with a great hep music score, teaches kids about the dangers of catching rides with strangers, letting strangers into the house, talking to strange people, and, in the best and last part, dating older boys. With a cast of unbelievably homely girls and horny boys, this film will not dissapoint. All is told at the last part of the last segment.. You'll find yourself in "trouble", be taken out of school, and put under the care of the Juvenile Authority! This of course, is a MUST SEE on this site.. But beeeeeeewaaaaare!