A baby-faced Cliff Richard drinks and smokes (less than convincingly) and hates his mother in this lively satirical musical from Val Guest. He's the find of hustler-cum-manager Johnny Jackson (played with a manic, exhausting energy by Laurence Harvey that's quite exhausting) who grabs every opportunity to spotlight his young star and line his own pockets. Sylvia Syms plays his sweet, long-suffering stripper girlfriend. The songs are a bit hit and miss, and tend to arrive like buses, but the film is surprisingly entertaining.
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