The Girl

Plot:

The Girl is 14-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Pat Carlsson (Clare Powney). Though very young, she is also very wise in the ways of the world, thus she has no qualms about offering her sexual services, for a price, to middle-aged attorney John Berg (Franco Nero). Like Humbert Humbert, Berg cannot prevent himself from succumbing to Pat's charms. What starts as an illicit affair, ends in a tangled web of tragedy and duplicity involving blackmail, kidnapping and murder. The Girl switches moods so often that it seems like three different films cobbled together. Though hardly a model of restraint, the film is surprisingly prudish when it comes to nudity: still, this is not a film for the easily offended.

Cast:

Franco Nero as Johan (John) Berg
Bernice Stegers as Eva Berg
Clare Powney as Pat, the girl
Frank Brennan as Lindberg, reporter
Christopher Lee as Peter Storm
Mark Robinson as Hans
Derek Benfield as Janitor
Clifford Rose as General Carlsson
Rosie Jauckens as Fru Carlsson
Lenore Zann as Viveka
Heinz Hopf as David
Mark Dowling as Silenski
Pontus Platin as Sandberg
Olle Björling as The Host
Hanna Brogren as The Housekeeper
Gunnar Ernblad as Editor 1
Timothy Earle as Editor 2
Sam Cook as Antonio
Sara Key as Adriana
Christer Banck as The Locksmith
Damir Mejovsek as Graudenz