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December 1956 (USA) moreTagline:
The whole wonderful story of today's ROCK-AND-ROLL GENERATION! ..told the way they want it told!Plot Keywords:
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Somewhat surprising JD fare moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sal Mineo | ... | Angelo Barrato |
 | John Saxon | ... | Jimmy Daley |
| Luana Patten | ... | Joan Wright |
 | Edward Platt | ... | Thomas Daley Sr. M.D. (as Edward C. Platt) |
| Fay Wray | ... | Beth Daley |
| Rod McKuen | ... | 'Ox' Bentley |
| John Wilder | ... | 'Fingers' Porter |
| Alan Reed Jr. | ... | 'Sax' Lewis |
| Douglas Fowley | ... | 'Pop' Wright |
| Bob Courtney | ... | 'Half-Note' Harris |
| Shelley Fabares | ... | Twinky Daley |
| Susan Volkman | ... | Carol Saunders (as Susan Volkmann) |
| Caryl Volkman | ... | Claire Saunders (as Caryl Volkmann) |
| April Kent | ... | Kay Norton |
| Sue George | ... | Lori Parker |
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Relatively harmless Universal-International JD flick. Mancini supervised the music, which is mostly NOT rock and roll, as much as Saxon, Mineo, their girlfriends, and eventually hip parents shout that it is!
The quality of the photography is much higher than that of the film in general, reflecting U-I's overabundance of talent relative to its lowered late 50s production standards. This results in transforming the conceivably banal -- a beachside conversation with light "necking" -- into a fabulous play of light and shadows in the old Germanic tradition. Or, in other words, something truly lovely emerging from a pic that was meant to last a week.
Anyway, the film itself is pretty engaging, but much too long. Not enough thrills or "crazy" speeches to satisfy those strictly into JD "kicks", and not enough rock to really roll.