Summer Holiday

Associated British Pictures / Ivy

Peter Yates

Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Una Stubbs
Teddy Green, Ron Moody, Lionel Murton

Youth culture pop musical. The adventures of young London Transport mechanics who borrow a red double-decker bus for a European holiday

Hootenanny Hoot

United Artists / MGM

Gene Nelson

Judy Henske, Pamela Austin, Joby Baker, Johnny Cash
George Hamilton, Sheb Woolley

Musical comedy about a college show brought to TV. You may also remember Sheb Woolley for his part in the classic TV series 'Rawhide'

Around The Beatles

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

Movie made for television starring the 'Fab Four'.
No other information available at present

Follow The Boys

MGM / Franmet

Richard Thorpe

Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Dany Robin, Russ Tamblyn, Richard Long

American youth culture musical.
A group of girls follow their boys, based on a Navy ship, around the coast

Saturday Night Out

Robert Hartford-Davis

Heather Sears, John Bonney, Bernard Lee, Erika Remberg Colin Campbell
Francesca Annis, Inigo Jackson, Vera Day, Caroline Mortimer
David Lodge, Nigel Green, Toni Gilpin, Barbara Roscoe, Margaret Nolan
Martine Beswick, Patricia Hayes, Derek Bond, Freddie Mills, Mike Pender
Tony Jackson, John McNally, Chris Curtis, David Burke, Shirley Cameron
Patsy Fagan, Gerry Gibson, Barry Langford, Janet Milner
Wendy Newton, Jack Taylor

Many well-known artists in this Pop music film, a vehicle for The Searchers, in which they take the part of sailors on shore leave.
The title comes from one of their many hit singles

What A Crazy World

Associated British Pathe / Capricorn

Michael Carreras

Joe Brown, Marty Wilde, Susan Maughan, Harry H. Corbett
Avis Bunnage, Michael Ripper

Youth culture pop musical in which a local Cockney boy writes a hit record based on his family and becomes a pop star. The title song was a hit single for Joe. Gorgeous Susan Maughan co-stars as his long-suffering girl

The Leather Boys

British Lion / Garrick

Sidney J.Furie

Rita Tushingham, Dudley Sutton, Colin Campbell, Gladys Henson

Working-class youth culture on the Biker fringe. Social drama which examines class and personal relationships

The Young Swingers

20th Century Fox

Maury Dexter

Rod Lauren, Molly Bee, Gene McDaniels, Jack Larson, Karen Gunderson
John Merritt, Jo Helton, Justin Smith, Jerry Summers, Jack Younger

Musical drama in which a singer, played by Rod Lauren, attempts to keep a nightclub operating despite the efforts of a real estate agent to the contrary. The film features music by The Sherwood Singers

It's All Happening

British Lion Films / Magna / KNP

Don Sharp

Tommy Steele, Angela Douglas, Michael Medwin, Bernard Bresslaw, Jean Harvey, Walter Hudd, John Barry, The Clyde Valley Stompers, Russ Conway, Carol Deene, Shane Fenton and The Fentones, Dick Kallman, Johnny DeLittle, Geoff Love, Marion Ryan, The George Mitchell Show

Youth culture musical comedy in which a talent scout branches out and becomes a pop star himself

Palm Springs Weekend

Warner

Norman Taurog

Troy Donahue, Ty Hardin, Connie Stevens, Stefanie Powers, Robert Conrad, Jack Weston, Andrew Duggan

American west coast youth culture comedy directed by Norman Taurog who also did Elvis films

The Party's Over

Tricastle

Guy Hamilton

Oliver Reed, Eddie Albert, Ann Lynn, Louise Sorel

Swinging London beatnik culture, a downbeat drama where
an American girl becomes involved with a bunch of London youths
and inevitably ends up the worse for it

Live It Up ( Sing And Swing )

Universal Pictures / Three Kings

Lance Comfort

Anthony Ashdown, David Bauer, Heinz Burt, David Clark, Ed Devereaux
Pat Gilbert, Peter Glaze, Peter Haigh, Paul Hansard, David Hemmings
Veronica Hurst, Douglas Ives, Geoffrey L'Oise, Penny Lambirth
Steven Marriott, Trevor Maskell, John Mitchell, Jennifer Moss
Joan Newell, Peter Noble, John Pike, Anthony Shepard, Nancy Spain

Fun but predictable musical comedy film about a group of guys who form a combo and, naturally, make a hit record

Bye Bye Birdie

Columbia / Fred Kohlmar / George Sidney

George Sidney

Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Maureen Stapleton, Ann-Margret
Bobby Rydell, Jessie Pearson, Ed Sullivan

American youth culture pop musical showcasing the story around a pop star's last show before he joins the army

A Place To Go

British Lion / Excalibur

Basil Dearden

Rita Tushingham, Mike Sarne, Doris Hare, John Slater, Bernard Lee, Barbara Ferris, Roy Kinnear

Mike Sarne is joined by well-known names in an urban low-life crime story











Just For Fun

Amicus / Columbia Pictures Corporation

Gordon Flemyng

Reginald Beckwith, Jack Bentley, Freddie Cannon, Louise Cordet
Lyn Cornell, Sonny Curtis, Karl Denver, Dick Emery, Mario Fabrizi
Harry Fowler, Alan Freeman, Ian Gray, Irene Handl, Glen D. Hardin
Jet Harris and Tony Meehan, The Jet Blacks, Gary Hope, Douglas Ives
David Jacobs, Ketty Lester, Hugh Lloyd, Jeremy Lloyd, Kenny Lynch
John Martin, Jerry Naylor, Ken Parry, Brian Poole and The Tremeloes
Jimmy Powell, Edwin Richfield, Cherry Roland, Gordon Rollings
Jimmy Savile, Johnny Tillotson, Bobby Vee, Richard Vernon
Frank Williams, John Wood, Mark Wynter, The Crickets
The Springfields, Joe Brown and The Breakaways (Bruvvers)
Clodagh Rodgers, Sounds Incorporated, The Vernon Girls
The Spotnicks, The Tornadoes

Musical comedy pop movie from the same team that made 'It's Trad Dad'. A positively mouth-watering cast list in a tongue-in-cheek episodic film with a vague plot about the take-over of England by a group of teenagers who form their own political 'pop' party


not from film

Blind Corner ( Man In The Dark )

Produced by Tom Blakeney

Lance Comfort

Ronnie Carroll, Alexander Davion, Mark Eden, Barbara Shelley
Elizabeth Shepherd, Marianne Stone

Storyline unknown.
Starring appearance for popular Sixties singer Ronnie Carroll who was at one time married to Millicent Martin

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