That'll Be the Day (1973)
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 91m
Director: Claude Whatham
Cast: David Essex, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr, Rosalind Ayres, Robert Lindsay
Synopsis:
Essex lad Jim MacLaine ditches his school books on the day of his exams and takes to the road, renting deckchairs and working at holiday camps and fairs. As he sows his wild oats, he wistfully hankers after a life in rock and roll.
Review:
Faithfully kitchen sink-ish portrait of life in the late 50s and early 60s, the protagonist's fecklessness seen as a hand-me-down from father and grandfather. As such, then, it is anything but glamorised, yet the film's sexual politics may be hard to stomach for modern audiences, the 'You won't tell anyone, will you?' seen as each easy girl's token line of defence, the more easily to be treated with contempt.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 91m
Director: Claude Whatham
Cast: David Essex, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr, Rosalind Ayres, Robert Lindsay
Synopsis:
Essex lad Jim MacLaine ditches his school books on the day of his exams and takes to the road, renting deckchairs and working at holiday camps and fairs. As he sows his wild oats, he wistfully hankers after a life in rock and roll.
Review:
Faithfully kitchen sink-ish portrait of life in the late 50s and early 60s, the protagonist's fecklessness seen as a hand-me-down from father and grandfather. As such, then, it is anything but glamorised, yet the film's sexual politics may be hard to stomach for modern audiences, the 'You won't tell anyone, will you?' seen as each easy girl's token line of defence, the more easily to be treated with contempt.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 91m
Director: Claude Whatham
Cast: David Essex, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr, Rosalind Ayres, Robert Lindsay
Synopsis:
Essex lad Jim MacLaine ditches his school books on the day of his exams and takes to the road, renting deckchairs and working at holiday camps and fairs. As he sows his wild oats, he wistfully hankers after a life in rock and roll.
Review:
Faithfully kitchen sink-ish portrait of life in the late 50s and early 60s, the protagonist's fecklessness seen as a hand-me-down from father and grandfather. As such, then, it is anything but glamorised, yet the film's sexual politics may be hard to stomach for modern audiences, the 'You won't tell anyone, will you?' seen as each easy girl's token line of defence, the more easily to be treated with contempt.