1h 15min | Musical | June 1959 | b/w, fs
Director: Paul Landres
Stars: Alan Freed, Jimmy Clanton, Sandy Stewart.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051665/
Watched online: part 1, part2; poor copy, even for full screen of laptop.
More rocksploitation. 18 songs in the Soundtracks.
This is Alan Freed's last film. Apparently this year he is convicted on payola charges, and loses his broadcast career.
The penultimate scene seems highly unlikely: JC, still not knowing that AF wants to find him, breaks the window of a jewelry shop to get his gf a nice present for Xmas. But she and AF find him just as he breaks the glass, and when cops respond to the alarm, AF plays drunk, claims to have broken the window out of spite for all the jeweler has sold to his wife. He gets hauled off to jail. So AF thinks that won't hurt him? And he thinks this kid is that great, when he resisted for most of the film? Ugh.
I hope this pov.row stuff dies out soon.
Hal Roach Studios, dir. Landres; 5
