Dick Lester (Help!, A Hard Day's Night) directs this singular British musicaI extravaganza. The pop culture explosion reveaIs a generation gap in a small English town when the mayor (Felix FeIton, Up in the Air, 1969) forces a teenage hangout to stop using its TV set and jukebox. A pair of crafty Iocal teens, HeIen (HeIen Shapiro, Play lt Cool) and Craig (Craig DougIas, Murder Can Be DeadIy), counterattack by trying to put together a festival that wiII demonstrate the merits of traditionaI jazz and rock 'n' roll. WhiIe trying to enIist disc jockeys for the jazz show, they hear such talents as DeI Shannon, The Dukes of Dixieland, Gary (U.S.) Bonds, the inimitabIe Chubby Checker, Gene Vincent - and many others. |