Two fellows, Steve (Johnny Johnston) and Corny (Henry Slate,) have quit their unpopular dance band and stumble into Strawberry Springs looking for a place to crash for the night. The plot, about as thin as any plot could be, went something like this: It could easily be your son or daughter or niece, or the nice boy next door who gets caught up in the maelstrom of this type of jazz (sic)”. In Britain’s then-popular Daily Sketch, a solemn warning was delivered to parents: “Don’t just say ‘tut tut’ and ‘disgraceful’ and turn away. The result was that the film made the front pages of newspapers around the world, and in big bold type the Establishment formally acknowledged its fear and ignorance. The screenings were forever being halted as the audience – “many of them in Edwardian clothes,” as the newspapers put it – left their seats to jive in the aisles. In Britain, it was given a ‘U’ certificate and then proceeded to cause more trouble than any ‘X’ certificate film had ever done.
It took $1,000,000 at the box office in the first months of its release in 1956 and went on to break attendance records around the world. In this low-budget, 77-minute movie, disc jockey Alan Freed discovers a rock band in a village in the faraway hills and promotes them in New York.Īnd that would be that, except for the fact that the band is Bill Haley and His Comets, and this little film is now history for the effect they produced on teen audiences worldwide and on the music business.
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