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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, Pamela Hart, Jeremy Bulloch, Jacqueline
Daryl, Madge Ryan, Christine Lawson
David Kossoff, Wendy Barrie, Nicholas Phipps
Youth
culture pop musical. The adventures of young London Transport
mechanics who borrow a red double-decker bus for a European
holiday. On its release, Summer Holiday broke all British
box office records and sealed Cliff Richard's reputation
as England's best-loved entertainer. It also marked the
film debut of director Peter Yates
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ronnie
Carroll
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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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The
Beatles Come To Town
An
8-minute Pathe News technicolor short showing The Beatles
in concert at the
ABC Cinema in Manchester on 20th November 1963 - including
backstage shots.
This footage was incorporated into the 1965 Pathe feature
"Pop Gear".
Original music by Paul McCartney. Non-original music by
John Lennon (song)
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More 1963 films - any pictures or info you have on these would be
most welcome!
(
Thanks to Emi for 'The Beatles Come To Town' and 'Saturday Night
Out' images above )
The Cool Mikado
John Barry Seven
D'Ou Viens-Tu Johnny
Musical vehicle for French pop singer
Johnny Halliday
The World's Greatest Sinner
Soundtrack score by Frank Zappa
A Swingin' Affair
Features Dick Dale and The Deltones
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