Rock You Sinners

I am surprised that none of the other reviewers have picked up on the names of various members of the Fancey family in the credits.They are all related to the infamous E J Fancey,who produced some of the worst films in British cinema history.Here he truly excels himself.This film deserves a place in the list of all time worst British films.The story can hardly be criticised as it barely exists.The acting is amateurish.Interesting to see Jackie Collins before she wisely stuck to writing books.I am no expert on the rock and roll artists of the era but there seem to be quite a few duds in the lot on show here.The best way to watch this is with your finger on the fast forward button.

This is among the top five musical films that have a dreadful storyline, that are poorly directed, produced and acted.

A lot of the dialogue is spoken as if being read straight from the script, a script that was derived in about 5 minutes.

Lyrics to the songs are dreadful and embarrassing.

The cast are among the most amateur you'll ever see and a slight redeeming feature is the dancing.

Think of 6th formers doing their end of term play and you have an idea what the films like.

This film is pretty awful in most respects, not least for the role given to one actor in particular - Colin Croft.

Croft was clearly well into his 30s playing much younger. His attempt to act "hip" or "cool" made my toes curl. Just saw him in an episode of Interpol Calling (from around the same era) as a crooked co-pilot which had the same effect, when he was talking about 20-year old girls.

The film is worth watching though as it shows how hopeless middle-aged filmmakers were at trying to capture the rock n roll experience for a teen audience. Terrible exploitation nonsense. Worth a laugh on rainy afternoon.

The only thing worse than the feeble storyline here is the so-called "rock 'n' roll" music performed by a bunch of ultra-square British fugitives from the Music Hall. Since the 1956 American film "Rock Around the Clock" was already a hit in the U.K., it's no wonder that the two best groups here, Art Baxter & His Rockin' Sinners and Tony Crombie & His Rockets, are carbon copies of Bill Haley & His Comets, but they pale in comparison. The rest of the singing acts are so lousy, you're advised to keep your thumb near the fast-forward button. When it came to creating rock 'n' roll, the Brits didn't have a clue in 1957.

This is a rather weak film with litte to no story line and really rather poor acting. It's simply a vehicle to present a succession of British rock 'n' roll bands from 1958. What strikes me as odd is that none of the acts presented are either famous or particularly good. I'm guessing that this would be just the type of music that my parents would have gone out rockin' and rollin' to of a Saturday evening down at the local dance hall. So, if you want to see a succession of competent amateur performers doing their bit, this film is for you.

Times were changing, and it's clear that most of the actors were too old to be digging this kind of music, but then, at this time rock and roll wasn't always being performed by youngsters. As with other music films of this pre-Beatles era it captures a time when people seemed happy to drink coffee from glass mugs, and click their fingers in time to the groovy rhythm.

This is fascinating to watch, but ultimately it's a poor film.