Sing and Swing

Original title: Live It Up!

1963
1h 15m

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Heinz Burt, David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, and Jennifer Moss in Sing and Swing (1963)

Four teenage GPO dispatch riders in London form a band named 'The Smart Alecs', who go to various lengths to get themselves noticed. This movie contains many musical interludes by singers of... Read allFour teenage GPO dispatch riders in London form a band named 'The Smart Alecs', who go to various lengths to get themselves noticed. This movie contains many musical interludes by singers of the era, including several by Kenny Ball.Four teenage GPO dispatch riders in London form a band named 'The Smart Alecs', who go to various lengths to get themselves noticed. This movie contains many musical interludes by singers of the era, including several by Kenny Ball.

Director
- Lance Comfort
Writers
- Lyn Fairhurst
- Harold Shampan
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5.6/10

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Director
- Lance Comfort
Writers
- Lyn Fairhurst
- Harold Shampan
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, Peter Noble, Peter Haigh and Nancy Spain all receive 'Guest Stars' credits.

Goofs
The band's live TV performance is called off at the last minute to be replaced by a news flash about a cricket match. The match was fictional, but the announcer says it is being played in Australia. If that were so, because of the time zone difference, it would be reported in the morning, UK time, not the evening.

The announcer also says that Freddie Trueman will be opening the batting. That would have been incorrect: as he has already said, Trueman, a real cricketer who died in 2006, and was briefly the father in law of the son of American actress Raquel Welch, was a bowler.

Connections
Followed by Be My Guest (1965)

Soundtracks
Law and Disorder
Composed by Joe Meek
Performed by Outlaws

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6/10

Mixed Semi-Revue Musical

David Hemmings and three other GPO Express riders form. Band and try to make a go of it, despite the doubts of his father, Ed Devereaux.

Lance Comfort directs the first of two movies he did, with a thin plot eked out to length by many musical acts. The story, such as it is, takes up perhaps 40 minutes, while a pop music piece by various 'guest artists' range from a fine blues number "Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes" to a Dixieland version of Mozart, with stops in between at bubblegum pop. Cameraman Basil Emmot shoots the musical numbers in a wide variety of looks to lend them some individuality.

Comfort, Hemmings and Emmot would team up again a couple of years later for a similar movie, BE MY GUEST.