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Ferry Cross The Mersey
United
Artists
Jeremy
Summers
Gerry
and The Pacemakers, Cilla Black, Jimmy Savile, Deryck
Guyler, Patricia Lawrence
Julie Samuel, Margaret Nolan, The Fourmost, The Blackwells,
Earl Royce and The Olympics
The Black Knights, The Koobas
Youth
culture musical. A local pop group takes part in a 'battle
of the bands', eventually beating the 'bad' guys, The Blackwells,
who sported bleached blond hair. The end song, played over
the credits was
'It's Gonna Be Alright'
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Kimberley Jim
Emil
Nofal / Jamie Uys
Emil
Nofal
Jim
Reeves, Madeleine Usher, Clive Parnell, Arthur Swemmer,
Vonk DeRidder, Tromp Terreblanche
Mike Holt, Dawid Van Der Walt, Ruth Neethling, George
Moore, Freddie Prozesky
Don Leonard, Morris Blake
Light-hearted
musical comedy about two gamblers who win a diamond mine
in a game of poker. A rare screen appearance for Jim Reeves
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What's New Pussycat?
United
Artists / Famous Artists
Clive
Donner
Peter
O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress, Romy
Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss
Swinging
Sixties culture. A fashion editor is 'plagued' by beautiful
girls. General sixties background music
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Joe
Brown at Clapham
British Transport Films
Producer: Edgar Anstey Director:
Norman Prouting
Editor: Jane Wood Cameramen: Ronald Craigen,
Lewis McLeod
Unit Manager: Don Washbourne
An 18-minute light-hearted history of Britain's railways,
seen through old prints, photographs
and rare pieces of archive film as well as modern material.
The film was made originally for a national children's competition.
Joe Brown, a former railwayman, gives a happy-go-lucky narration
as he comperes
his group while they play railway songs in the Museum of
British Transport at Clapham.
Featuring "The Railway Song" written by Harry Dawson
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Village Of The Giants
Berkeley
Productions / Embassy Pictures Corporation / Joseph E.Levine
Bert
I.Gordon
Tommy
Kirk, Beau Bridges, Ron Howard, Joy Harman, Johnny Crawford,
Vicki London, Toni Basil
Freddy Cannon
Beach
culture 'sci-fi' movie, based on the H.G.Wells story
'Food Of The Gods', with general West coast music soundtrack
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The Beatles At Shea Stadium
NEMS
Enterprises / SubaFilms
Dick
Fontaine
Paul
McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
48
minute documentary film of The Beatles' legendary American
concert
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Catch Us If You Can ( Having A Wild Weekend )
Anglo
Amalgamated / Bruton
John
Boorman
The
Dave Clark Five, Barbara Ferris, David Lodge, Robin Bailey,
Yootha Joyce
Youth
culture pop music vehicle for The Dave Clark Five.
A stuntman, played by Dave Clark, and a model ( Barbara
Ferris ) cut out of an advertising shoot and disappear on
a trip around the country. They stick together despite several
disagreements and eventually find that the 'story' of their
travels has been made a part of the advertising campaign
that they had been so keen to escape from in the first place
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A Swingin' Summer
United
Screen Arts
Robert
Sparr
James
Stacy, William Wellman Jr, Quinn O'Hara, Martin West,
Mary Mitchel, Raquel Welch, Allan Jones
Musical
pop movie.
A film that gets away from the 'beach' fixation of the time
- a story about a group of college friends, two guys and
a girl who spend their summer trying to becoming concert
promoters at a lakeside mountain resort, succeeding in bringing
in some headline pop sounds. As well as the lovely Quinn
O'Hara, the film featured Raquel Welch in her first
starring role.
Artists: Gypsy Boots, Jody Miller, The Rip Chords, Donnie
Brooks
The Righteous Brothers, Gary Lewis and The Playboys
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The Monkey's Uncle
Walt
Disney
Robert
Stevenson
Tommy
Kirk, Annette Funicello, The Beach Boys, Cheryl Miller,
Leon Tyler, Leon Ames, Gage Clark
Beach
culture 'sci-fi' movie.
The sequel to 'The Misadventures of Merlin Jones' (1964)
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Dateline Diamonds
Rank
/ Viscount
Jeremy
Summers
Ronald
Bridges, Anna Carteret, Kenneth Cope, Vanda Godsell, David
Kirk, Gertan Klauber
Patsy Rowlands, Tony Windsor
Pop
culture adventure involving the offshore RADIO LONDON
'pirate' radio station with great location shots
Artists: The Chantelles, Kiki Dee and soundtrack by The
Small Faces
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The Pleasure Girls
Compton
Tekli
Gerry
O'Hara
Ian
McShane, Francesca Annis, Tony Tanner, Klaus Kinski, Mark
Eden, Suzanna Leigh
Youth
culture. All about some girl flatmates and their boyfriend
trouble
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Seaside Swingers ( Every Day's A Holiday )
Maycroft
/ Fitzroy / Grand National
James
Hill
Mike
Sarne, John Leyton, Ron Moody, Liz Fraser, Grazina Frame,
Susan Baker, Jennifer Baker
Nicholas Parsons, Michael Ripper, Hazel Hughes, Richard
O'Sullivan, Peter Gilmore
Freddie and The Dreamers, The Mojos, The Leroys
Pop
musical movie story based around a youth talent show
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Darling
Anglo-Amalgamated
/ Vic Films / Appia
John
Schlesinger
Julie
Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Roland Curram,
Alex Scott, Basil Henson, Pauline Yates
A
cinematic look at Swinging Sixties middle-class culture
love lives
with soundtrack by Johnny Dankworth
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Gonks Go Beat
Anglo
Amalgamated / Titan Film Productions
8,225
ft Eastman Colour 92minutes
Produced
by Peter Newbrook and Robert Hartford-Davis
Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
Kenneth
Connor, Frank Thornton, Barbara Brown, Iain Gregory, Terry
Scott, Jerry Desmonde, Reginald Beckwith, Gary Cockrell,
Arthur Mullard, Pamela Donald, Gillian French, Gabriella
Lewis, Pamela Oswald
On
hearing of a somewhat turbulent social situation on planet
Earth, the 'Great Galaxian' summons a Metorian ambassador
for a special mission to restore peace and friendship
on this planet of unrest. To his horror, Galaxian finds
that the only ambassador available for the task is Wilco
Roger, a rather unorthodox character who sports a disgraceful
record of incompetence. Nevertheless, Wilco must achieve
complete success in this duty or, by way of punishment,
spend the rest of his days in exile on the dreaded planet
Gonk!
Wilco ponders his fate and accepts the challenge along
with a ban on the use of his supernatural powers (he can
appear and exit in a puff of smoke), except in the case
of extreme emergency. Arriving on Earth, Wilco soon realises
the causes of unrest in the form of an all-out war between
the two communities of Beatland and Balladisle, with music
at the root of their mutual dislike. Some play ballads,
others play beat, but both sides insist that their music
is tops! A certain Mr. A&R who presides over an annual
music contest between the beat groups of Beatland and
the ballad singers of Balladisle has, in an effort to
appease the two islands, declared the contest a draw for
the past three years, but this has only succeeded in aggravating
the situation.
Wilco Roger has, however, thought of a better idea to
bring unity and tolerance to the two rival lands and decides
to take a leaf from the works of William Shakespeare in
the form of a Romeo and Juliet plot involving Steve, a
prominent Beatlander, and Helen, the daughter of Balladisle's
Prime Minister! Finally resorting to his supernatural
powers, Wilco manoeuvres a successful and happy ending
to his desperate efforts, but not before he experiences
a hectic 'battle of music' and hears a host of rousing
musical numbers from the two most 'with it' groups and
singers ever to inhabit planet Earth.
Music
by:
Lulu and The Luvvers - 'Choc Ice' and 'The Only One', The
Nashville Teens - 'Poor Boy', Elaine and Derek - 'Broken
Pieces'
The Graham Bond Organisation - 'Harmonica', Alan David -
'Love Is A Dream', The Long And The Short - 'Love Is A Funny
Thing'
The Trolls, Ray Lewis and The Trekkers, The Vacqueros -
'Battle Music', The Vacqueros, The Trolls - 'Burn Up'
Ray Lewis and The Trekkers - 'As Young As You Are', 8 Drummers
- 'Drum Battle', Iain Gregory - 'In Love With You Today'
Barbara Brown - 'Penny For Your Thoughts', Studio Orchestra
- 'Gonks Go Beat'
Iain Gregory, Barbara Brown and all the Groups - 'Takes
Two To Make Love'
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Help!
United
Artists / Walter Shenson / Suba Films
Dick
Lester
The
Beatles, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti
Pop
movie with a crazy story built around the music of the 'Fab
Four'.
Originally titled 'Eight Arms To Hold You'
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I've Gotta Horse ( Wonderful Day )
Windmill
/ Larry Parnes
Kenneth
Hume
Billy
Fury, Amanda Barrie, Tom Bowman, Bill Fraser, Peter Gilmore
Jon Pertwee, Michael Medwin, The Bachelors, The Gamblers
Pop
musical based on youth culture, a movie vehicle for ballad
king and rock'n'roller Billy
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Pop Gear ( GoGo Mania )
Associated
British Pictures
Frederick
Goode
Pop
'documentary' film hosted by Jimmy Savile (
pic )
Artists:
The Rockin' Berries, Billie Davis, Matt Monro, The Animals
The Nashville Teens, The Fourmost, Billy J. Kramer and The
Dakotas
The Spencer Davis Group, Sounds Incorporated, Susan Maughan
The Beatles, Herman's Hermits, The Honeycombs, The Four
Pennies
Peter and Gordon, Tommy Quickly and The Remo Four ( pic
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When The Boys Meet The Girls
United
Artists / MGM / Four Leaf
Alvin
Ganzer
Connie
Francis, Harve Presnell, Sue Ane Langdon, Pepper Davis
Tony Reese, Domingo Samudio
Pop
musical in which Connie and her father open a new night
club.
Artists featured include Herman's Hermits, Liberace, Louis
Armstrong
Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs
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Three Hats For Lisa
Seven
Hills Productions / Jack Hanbury / Pathe / Warner Brothers
Sidney
Hayers
Joe
Brown and The Bruvvers, Sid James, Sophie Hardy, Una Stubbs,
Dave Nelson, Peter Bowles
Eric Barker, Josephine Blake, Seymour
Green, Jeremy Lloyd, Michael Brennan, Howard Douglas
Dickie Owen, Norman Mitchell, Arnold Bell, Barrie Gosney
Youth
culture musical comedy. Odd sort of episodic film in which
Joe Brown stars as 'Johnny Howjego'.
Joe Brown and Una Stubbs are thrilled to meet their favourite
Italian film star and end up spending a day showing her
about 60s London and helping to collect an assortment of
unusual headgear
- a bobby's helmet, a businessman's bowler and the bearskin
of a palace guard.
Sid James sings the unforgettable ditty 'Bermondsey'!
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Up Jumped a Swagman
Associated
British Pictures / Ivy
Christopher
Miles
Frank
Ifield, Suzy Kendall
Musical
story vehicle for talented antipodean crooner Frank
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Beach Ball
Paramount
Pictures
Lennie
Weinrib
Ed
Byrnes, Chris Noel, Robert Logan, Aron Kincaid
Beach
culture pop music movie featuring performances from
Diana Ross and The Supremes, The Four Seasons
The Righteous Brothers, The Hondells, The Walker Brothers
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The Knack ( . . . and How To Get It)
United
Artists / Woodfall
Richard
Lester
Michael
Crawford, Ray Brooks, Rita Tushingham, Donal Donnelly
Swinging
London youth culture comedy.
An innocent young man (Michael Crawford), unlucky with women,
takes lessons in romantic
conquest from his charismatic roommate (Ray Brooks) - then
both men face off in competition
over a willing young woman (Rita Tushingham).
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Be My Guest
Three
Kings
Lance
Comfort
David
Hemmings, Steven Marriott, John Pike, Andrea Monet
Ivor Salter, Anna King, Avril Angers, Joyce Blair, Jerry
Lee Lewis
The Nashville Teens, David Healy, Tony Wager, Robin Stewart
Monica Evans, The Zephyrs, Kenny and The Wranglers, The
Niteshades
Musical
drama movie in which a young man's family takes over a guest
house and he discovers a plot to mount a phony music competition
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Billie
Chrislaw
Productions
Don
Weis
Patty
Duke, Jim Backus, Jane Greer, Warren Berlinger, Billy
DeWolfe
Charles Lane, Dick Sargent, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Ted
Bessell
Richard Deacon, Bobby Diamond, Michael Fox, Clive Clerk
Harlan Warde, Jean MacRae
American
college culture movie with music, based on the Broadway
show 'Time Out For Ginger'. A tomboy (and singer) is put
into the all-male track team and proceeds to beat the lot
of them in between singing engagements
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Wild On The Beach ( Beach House Party )( Frenesi A
Go-Go )
20th
Century Fox
Maury
Dexter
Frankie
Randall, Sherry Jackson, Jackie Miller
Russ Bender, Cindy Malone
Beach
culture movie with music.
A boy and a girl fight over a beach hut and end up falling
in love
Artists: Sandy Nelson, Sonny and Cher ( Cher's screen debut
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The Girls On The Beach
Paramount
Pictures
William
Witney
Lori
Saunders, Noreen Corcoran, Martin West, Linda Marshall
Steven Rodgers, Ahna Capri, Nancy Spry
American
youth culture pop musical.
The girls of Alpha Beta organise a concert to save their
sorority house. Featured artists are The Crickets, The Beach
Boys, Lesley Gore
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Columbia
Pictures Corporation
Otto
Preminger
Keir
Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim, Noel Coward
Delphi Lawrence, Martita Hunt, Anna Massey, Jill Melford
Laurence Olivier, Victor Maddern, Clive Revill, Suzanne
Neve
Damaris Hayman, Adrienne Corri, Kika Markham, Jane Evers
John Sharp, Geoffrey Frederick, Patrick Jordan, Percy
Herbert
Michael Wynne, Fred Emney, Bill Maxam, Finlay Currie,
Tim Brinton
Richard Wattis, David Oxley, Megs Jenkins
Main
line mystery movie, with a heavyweight all-star cast, about
the apparent disappearance of a schoolgirl. The film includes
an appearance by good ol' St.Albans group The Zombies, who
are Rod Argent, Paul Atkinson, Colin Blunstone, Hugh Grundy
and Chris White, playing themselves
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Ski Party
AIP
Alan
Rafkin
Frankie
Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley, Yvonne Craig
Robert Q. Lewis, Bobbi Shaw, Aron Kincaid, Steve Rogers
Patti Chandler, Michael Nader, Salli Sachse, John Boyer,
Mikki Jamison
Mickey Dora, Mary Hughes
American
West Coast culture musical.
'It's where the HE's meet the SHE's on SKIS
and there's only one way to get warm'
What
is more or less the 'Beach Party' crowd go on a college
skiing weekend. Musical appearances supplied by Lesley Gore
and also
James Brown and The Famous Flames
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Beloved Invaders
InterFilm
George
M. Reid
Don
Wilson, Bob Bogle, Nokie Edwards
Documentary
music film on performances during The Ventures' tour of
Japan at the time of recording their album 'The Ventures
On Stage'
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Cuckoo Patrol
Grand
National Pictures Inc
Duncan
Wood
Freddie
Garrity, Roger Avon, Peter Birrell, Michael Brennan
Anthony Buckingham, Ernest Clark, Kenneth Connor, Dan
Cornwall
Roy Crewsdon, Basil Dignam, Bennie Dwyer, Joe Gibbons,
Jack Lambert
John LeMesurier, Victor Maddern, Lew Marco, Neil McCarthy
Arthur Mullard, Victor Platt, Dominic Pye, Derek Quinn
John Ross, Bill Turney, Vic Wise
Comedy
musical film - no details at present
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Sting Of Death
Essen
Productions
William
Grefe
Neil
Sedaka, Joe Morrison, Valerie Hawkins, John Castle
Blanche Devereaux, Lois Etelman, Tony Gulliver, Doug Hobart
Sandy Lee Kane, Judy Lee, Deanna Lund, Jack Nagle
Barbara Paridon, Ron Pinchbeck
Horror
/ Sci-fi movie set in the Florida everglades notable for
a singing appearance by Neil Sedaka
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Winter A Go-Go
Columbia
Pictures Corporation
Richard
Benedict
James
Stacy, William Wellman Jr, Beverly Adams, Anthony Hayes
Jill Donohue, Tom Nardini, Duke Hobbie, Julie Parrish,
Nancy Czar
Joni Lyman, Linda Rogers, Judy Parker, Bob Kanter
Walter Maslow, H. T. Tsiang
American
youth culture movie in the 'Ski-party' genre i.e. Beach
Party with more clothes on. A group of young people restore
and operate a
run-down ski lodge.
Music from The Reflections, The Nooney Rickett Four and
Joni Lyman
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Ballad In Blue ( Blues For Lovers )
20th
Century Fox
Paul
Henreid
Ray
Charles, Tom Bell, Mary Peach, Dawn Addams, Piers Bishop
Betty McDowall, Lucy Appleby, Joe Adams, Robert Lee Ross
Anne Padwick, Monika Henreid, Brendan Agnew
Vernon Hayden, Leo McCabe
Drama
film with Charles playing himself in a story concerning
a blind child. Lots of his hits in this movie
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The Dave Clark Five
British
Pathe Newsreel
Technicolour
Short
newsreel with an ultra-rare glimpse of the white-slacked
boys' concert at
The Royal, Tottenham, with two musical performances and
some backstage shots
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More 1965 films
- any pictures or info you have on these would be most welcome!
(
Thanks to Emi for the 'Dave Clark Five' title screenshot above
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The Playgirl Killer
Appearances by Neil Sedaka and The
Playboys
Venus In Furs
Underground film with Lou Reed
Primitive London
Searchlight/Troubadour
Swingin' London documentary style
81 minute culture film hampered by editing problems, with a brief
appearance by
Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas. Directed by Arnold Louis Miller
and starring Macdonald Hobley.
David Gell is the talkative narrator, with incidental music by
Basil Kirchin.
Interviews with beatniks, mods and rockers give some insight into
the style and social life of the swinging sixties.
A baby is born, youths shop for the latest fashions, scenes from
a Turkish bath and a tattoo parlour, parties,
and the making of a television commercial are seemingly randomly
included.
Bernadine
Pat Boone
Rat Pfink A-Boo-Boo
Ron Haydock
Daytona Beach Weekend
Features Del Shannon
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