This is an extremely strange film.Made in the UK but set in Brooklyn.
An astonishing exercise in late fifties sleaze worthy of pre-code Hollywood set in a surreal British visualisation of Brooklyn (complete with American-style slang) based on a play by Elsa Shelley called 'Pick Up Girl' but then wrecked by garrulous scripting by Sydney Box and leaden direction from Muriel. Raymond Durgnat in 'Films in Review' said it "seems to be slanted for American television", and it certainly feels like an ancient TV production.
A most unusual film. Set in America but made in Britain because the subject matter concerning underage sex would never have been allowed over 60 years ago.
The title tells all. This really is a film about underage sex, but made in the UK in 1959.
Other than the presence of pop star Jess Conrad in the cast, there's no real way to tell that TOO YOUNG TO LOVE is a British film as it gets the American authenticity spot on. It's an above-average addition to the wave of 'sensation' films that had been going since the 1930s and which enjoyed a resurgence in popularity during the 1950s.
