1h 24min | Crime, Musical | 29 May 1957 | b/w, fs
Director: Murray Douglas Sporup
Stars: Johnny Carroll, Don Coats, Preacher Smith.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050908/
Watched online, blurry, and only 67min. I'd guess the missing footage is story-related, not music performances.
The story is not worth discussing; not much more is revealed than what's in the synopsis above. The teens manage to uncover the gangster's hiding place for their ledgers (because what would a crime organization be without keeping books) and report it authorities, and to put on a benefit to save their club.
I have a higher tolerance for rockabilly than for early rock (or most country music). But the early songs here were straight rock, and tedious. I actually advanced the video to move past one duo's second song.
Also included was a version of When the Saints Come Marching In, with March replaced by Rock. But otherwise it was played as straight Dixieland. A rose by any other name does not convert it.
I wonder if I'll run into one of these rocksploitation films that I appreciate at some level.
Freebar Distributors, dir. Sporup; 5
