# 1960s(?) movie ID: College student gets pregnant, has a 'back-alley' abortion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 16, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-movie-id-college-student-gets-pregnant-has-a-back-alley-abortion/968051 "2022-07-16T14:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-movie-id-college-student-gets-pregnant-has-a-back-alley-abortion/968051/1 "2022-07-16T14:52:25Z")
I think it was released in the '60s, and I think it was black-and-white. A girl grows up with friends. She’s not as pretty as the others, nor as popular. She’s always in their shadow. It seems she’s always getting the short end of the stick. In college she’s desperate to lose her virginity. She has totally unsatisfactory sex with a guy, I think in a car. Of course she gets pregnant, and she seeks out a doctor who performs abortions illegally. Spoiler: She dies. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-movie-id-college-student-gets-pregnant-has-a-back-alley-abortion/968051/2 "2022-07-16T15:19:47Z")
Maybe… > **[Our Time (1974) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071959/?ref_=tt_urv)** > > Our Time: Directed by Peter Hyams. With Pamela Sue Martin, Betsy Slade, Parker Stevenson, George O'Hanlon Jr.. A student at Penfield Girls' School falls in love with a male student in 1955. They are deeply in love but meet difficulties and... ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-movie-id-college-student-gets-pregnant-has-a-back-alley-abortion/968051/3 "2022-07-16T15:35:08Z")
Thank you. I thought it might have been early-'70s, but I wasn’t sure. And it’s in colour. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-movie-id-college-student-gets-pregnant-has-a-back-alley-abortion/968051/4 "2022-07-16T15:36:07Z")
You didn’t ask, but Harlan Ellison’s story, _Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine_, from 1964, deals with just this subject matter, except they go to Mexico for the abortion. It, too, does not end well. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-movie-id-college-student-gets-pregnant-has-a-back-alley-abortion/968051/5 "2022-07-19T02:04:28Z")
Probably not the movie that you’re looking for, but [The Carey Treatment](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068337/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) has a similar story: illegal abortion, a dead patient, but set in a hospital, not a back-alley. Looking at the credits, starring James Colburn, I’m surprised to see it was directed by Blake Edwards, and was based on Michael Crichton’s fourth novel titled _A Case of Need_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-movie-id-college-student-gets-pregnant-has-a-back-alley-abortion/968051/6 "2022-07-19T02:22:32Z")
It was Our Time.