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Having just viewed this along with Rock You Sinners this Brit music film is slightly more dated than "Sinners" as if the makers were saying "don't listen to that nasty rock and roll", it seems our heroine in the film is not only a singing star of the future but in fact a beauty queen as well, utterly hilarious footage of good old Butlins holiday camp at Clacton On Sea confirms the queen status, however her enthusiastic boyfriend knows some good connections in London to get her a recording contract, and get it she does but only after a seedy American agent whisks her off to New York intent on having her for his own dirty deeds when in fact he is already married.

So much is crammed into this 64 odd minutes that it's hard to keep up with just how easy it is to get caught up in the bad old world of music in the 50s.

Some downright bad songs are reeled off along with some very good one's such as The Five Satins, but some nice old London location work look's good, certainly not the worst film of the genre and it passes the time nicely but don't expect anything less than a very very low budget film

Well it has been well documented by a previous writer just how bad this movie is, one simply cannot fathom just how shockingly awful this is, first off I would like to apologise to our American friends for ripping off their music and having to listen and watch moronic British act's sing out some of the worst music I think I have ever heard in the name of rock and roll one after one there is a monotonus file of so called "artists" some of who are so embarrassing I had to turn away from the screen, none more so than Don Sollash who must have given the worst ever song committed to film followed closely by the gentleman who sings Rock and Roll Calypso...twice!. My all time worst Brit music movie has always been The Golden Disc which is the Butcher Brothers at their best but this movie was produced by Small Productions, how apt a name, but perhaps Brainless Productions may have suited them better. The two lead "actors" are way too old to be digging RnR and too posh as well, so if you like your movies real bad then this is a must for you!

Some excellent and vivid location work around Bethnal Green in London is the setting for this slice of "kitchen sink" life.It portrays a family struggling to keep their heads above the water as the man of the house Bernard Lee loses his job for being too mouthy at work, he then takes to the streets as an escapologist in order to get money for food on the table, quite often embarrassing himself and his family in the process. Meanwhile his son played by 60ts singing star Mike Sarne is fed up being on the breadline and turns to local gangster John Slater to do a robbery at the factory he works at, it goes wrong but he manages to get out of it in a hurry, meanwhile Sarne's love interest played by the lovely Rita Tushingham certainly is'nt an easy catch. All in all a really good slab of realism directed by the excellent Basil Dearden. Recommended.