The Punk Rock Movie from England

Original title: The Punk Rock Movie

1978
R
1h 26m

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Documentary on the London punk-rock scene, circa '78.Documentary on the London punk-rock scene, circa '78.Documentary on the London punk-rock scene, circa '78.

Director
- Don Letts
Stars

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6.5/10

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Director
- Don Letts
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Soo Catwoman

Self
(as Cat Woman)

Steve Strange

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Robin Banks

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Mark Perry

Self
(as Mark P.)

Roger Bullen

Self
(as Dee Generate)

Helen Bullen

Self
(as Dee's Mum)

Jeannette Lee

Self
(as Jeannette)

Don Letts

Self
(as Don)

Steven Severin

Self
(as Steve Havoc)

Siouxsie Sioux

Self

Lora Logic

Self

Sid Strange

Self

Joe Strummer

Self

John Towe

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Billy Idol

Self

Jayne County

Self
(as Wayne County)

Johnny Thunders

Self
(as Johnny Thunder)

Sid Vicious

Self

Storyline

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Trivia
Most of the bands were filmed at the Roxy club in London, where Don Letts worked as a DJ. Letts filmed the bands very simply with a Super-8 camera, and also filmed on the tour bus and at shows with The Clash and The Slits. Sex Pistols were filmed at Screen on the Green in London on 3 April 1977, Sid Vicious's first show with the band.

Quotes
Debbie Juvenile: Oh, some decent fucking music at last!

Alternate versions
Some retailers offered the Goodtimes Video version of this film which runs ~1h 19min as opposed to the full 1h 26min. This edited version omits footage of a man slicing his own chest repeatedly with a razor blade, and also of Keith Levene and two others in the toilet of The Roxy preparing to shoot speed. (In the unedited version the latter scene appears immediately before Siouxsie & the Banshees' performance of "Bad Shape.")

Connections
Featured in The Filth and the Fury (2000)

Soundtracks
God Save the Queen
Written by Paul Cook (uncredited), Steve Jones (uncredited), Glen Matlock (uncredited) and John Lydon (uncredited)
Performed by Sex Pistols

Not worth seeing unless you like VHS in EP mode quality

I just got copy of this on DVD, and its worst quality video I've seen, its like EMI took the VHS version that was recorded on EP speed and transferred it to DVD. From looking at the video you can hardly see the faces on artists a lot of blurring and out of focus, looks like artist don't have eyes thats how bad it is. The sound track also is very bad, this could be that when they originally filmed it wasn't always good, a lot of songs on here you cant hardly hear the artist vocals just the music even at that the music still sounds like the Mic was down the hall, when the band on stage was playing. The only thing this video redeems from is you get to see a lot of punk bands from British wave in 70's, If your looking for at least good audio and video of British punk bands, there's a lot better then this out there in compilations out in DVDs with same bands on here, Like Old Grey Whistle Test or Rude Boy for Clash or Ramones Raw is a lot better.