EVA SAY NEVER

Sex scare movie cautions women to keep their vaginas in their pants.


Ukrainian illustrator Constantin Belinsky did special work on this French promo poster for Eva s’éveille à l’amour, which was originally made in England and is better known as That Kind of Girl. The French title translates as “Eva awakens to love,” which sounds nice, but this is actually a sex scare flick starring Margaret Rose Keil as a young Austrian woman in London who dates around a bit and as a result finds herself dealing with serious consequences. She only finds out there’s a problem when she’s attacked and the police force her to take a medical exam. Did you know that in Britain the euphemism for rape back then was to be “interfered with”? Neither did we. Those Brits are so circumspect. “But I told you he didn’t interfere with me,” Keil insists to the cops. Nevertheless, off to the clinic she’s sent, where the bad news comes down like a thunderclap—syphilis. This isn’t just a b-movie—it’s a vd-movie.

Poor Keil caught the clap from her first British lover, and gave it to two more. One of those two probably gave it to his fiancée. And worse, Keil works as an au pair, may have given it to the child she cares for, and has to tell the entire family they need to go to the clinic. Talk about mortifying. But that’s the point of scare movies—for you to walk away afraid to have premarital sex/smoke marijuana/peruse a socialist pamphlet. The movie even lifts straight from the puritan playbook about “respecting your body”—i.e. people have premarital sex because they have no self worth. Some people actually believe this even today. It all sounds like a drag, we know, but as moral warning movies go this isn’t bad thanks to the slice of London life it presents. Do you need to put it in your queue? We wouldn’t say so, but if you do it won’t be a waste of time. After premiering in England and other countries in 1963, That Kind of Girl opened in France today in 1964.

I have a natural facility for the carnal arts. What’s a girl supposed to do?

It seems unfair that I should have gotten a disease from something so fun.

Why did the doctor have to call it “fire in the ho”? Was that really necessary?

And then he said once the penicillin works he’ll call me for a date. Doesn’t that violate his hypocritic oath? It’s all so confusing.
A gun and an attitude will take you far.

This is the rarest of the rare. We’ve shown you many movie posters foreign to the country in which the original film was made. The most common amongst those have been French, Italian, and Japanese posters for American films. We’ve also seen a few U.S. and British posters for Japanese films. But we’ve never seen a French poster for a Japanese film, and that’s what you have here. And it isn’t just any film. It’s for the iconic 1973 Miki Sugimoto pinku actioner Sukeban–Kankain Dasso, known in English as Girl Boss: Escape from Reform School, and titled here Girl Boss – Les Étudiantes en cavale. That would translate: “girl boss – students on the run.”

This was painted using the original Japanese poster as inspiration by Constantin Belinsky, a talent we’ve discussed a couple of times before. He was born in Bratslav, Ukraine, learned his craft in art school in Chișinău, which was then in Romania but is now in Moldova, and worked professionally in Paris. He painted posters for classic dramas like Laura and Pickup on South Street, but later in his career specialized in genre films such as Creature from the Black Lagoon. He was born in 1904, so we suspect this poster was among his last pieces. But it won’t be his last on Pulp Intl. We have more to show you later.

You might as well spawn with me. I'm going to tell all my friends we did anyway.

We just learned about French artist Constantin Belinsky, and here he’s painted a promo for L’étrange créature du lac noir, better known as Creature from the Black Lagoon. This film is an all-time classic so you don’t need us to tell you anything about it. It premiered in the U.S. in 1954 and swam into France today in 1955. See another poster for the film in the collection of aquatic monster promos we put together ten years ago. Yes, ten. Hard to believe. Look here.

We're hooked on this poster—and the movie too.


Le port de la drogue was better known as Pickup on South Street, a movie we raved about a little while ago. Its U.S. poster is pedestrian, but this promo for the French market was painted by Constantin Belinsky, and we think it’s spectacular. He actually painted two posters, the second of which—not quite as nice because he was asked to copy the U.S. promo—appears below. We’d never heard of Belinsky before but we’ll keep our eyes open for more of his work. Pickup on South Street premiered in the U.S. in 1953 and seems to not have made it to France until today in 1961. We aren’t sure why it took so long, but the wait was worth it, because the movie is great.
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