1h 21min | Musical | 30 October 1957 | b/w, fs (s/b ws?)
Director: William F. Claxton
Stars: Virginia Field, Douglas Kennedy, Les Brown.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050909/
Watched online, bad print: blurry, sound out of sync.
I can't even call this a rocksploitation film, because there is no rock to see or hear.
6 songs in the Soundtracks, 4 sung by Luis Amando, 1 by Marlene Willis, 1 without performer. It omits the Les Brown number(s).
The songs are either pop ballads or big band. I don't know if Luis Amando was really the singer for all 4 numbers; at least 1 was sung by a woman "star" of the film (not MW). Maybe LA was on the jukebox? None of the music was remotely in the style of rockabilly.
The story casts Irene Ryan as a small-town busybody. The town also has a lonely wealthy widow, conquered by the new mom in town just by intruding at her home at cocktail hour and asking for a martini.
I see the "teens" cleaning up their new rec center, but not sure if they used it. Didn't seem like there was any conflict involved with this idea of their having a self-governed place to hang out. All the conflict centered around the adults being judgmental about the former dancer (see the feather fans in the poster) intruding on their town. Fortunately, the citizens with the most influence embraced her. The End.
No idea why 22 people cast votes on IMDb averaging 7.
Regal Films, distr. Fox, dir. Claxton; 5-
