Groupie Girl

Groupie Girl
American release poster
Directed byDerek Ford
Written byDerek Ford
Suzanne Mercer
Produced byStanley Long
StarringBilly Boyle
Donald Sumpter
Richard Shaw
Esme Johns
CinematographyStanley Long
Edited byTony Hawk
Music byOpal Butterfly
English Rose
Release date
  • June 1970 (1970-06)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£16,000[1]
Box office£50,000 (US only)[1]

Groupie Girl is a 1970 British drama film directed by Derek Ford and starring Esme Johns, Donald Sumpter and the band Opal Butterfly.[2] The film was written by Ford and former groupie Suzanne Mercer.[3] The film was released in America in December 1970 by American International Pictures as I am a Groupie and in France in 1973, with additional sex scenes, as Les demi-sels de la perversion (The Pimps of Perversion). It was later re-released in France in 1974 as Les affamées du mâle (Man-Hungry Women) this time with hardcore inserts credited to "Derek Fred".[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 70-71
  2. ^ "Groupie Girl". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Stanley A Long Side 5". British Entertainment History Project. 24 November 1999.