Writer: David Moessinger
Composer: John Williams
Starring: Dick Contino, Sandra Giles, Bruno VeSota, Gloria Victor, Ron McNeil, Tipp McClure, Sonia Torgeson, Kelly Gordon, Hank Mann, Joseph Donte
More info: IMDb
Tagline: Alive!! With the Beat and the Heat of Today's Rock-N-Roll Generation!
Plot: Phil, a part-time truck driver and singer who wears his pants far too high, meets a feisty platinum blonde who challenges him to a drag race through Griffith Park. When he is caught and loses his license, he meets up with the sketchy Frank Wooster who offers him a job singing in his new nightclub. When Phil discovers that his new job also includes drug running, he must fight to save his friends and himself.
My rating: 6.5/10
Will I watch it again? Yes.
How the hell this has such a low score on IMDb is beyond me. This is a fun flick. The acting is just fine. Look, you go into movies of this sort with certain lowered expectations. No one is going to come out the other end of these juvenile pictures a better (or worse) person. There's nothing to be learned and the only goal is to be entertained and this picture does just that. Maybe after another viewing I'll raise the score a little. The pacing moves along quickly and the only time it stops is when Phil (Contino) and his band play some rockin' tunes. There's so much of it it's obvious that it's there for padding. It's only about 70 minutes as it is and they gained a few with some of that new music the kids are diggin' these day (it'll never last). The score is by none other than John Williams, his first for a feature film. He was in his jazz phase at this point. It'd be a few more years before you start to hear hints of what he'd become in the mid to late 70s. This picture's got bad girls, bad dudes, car racing, rock & roll, milkshakes, the works. I enjoyed the hell out it and you should too.
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