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Live It Up! is a British musical film (US release title: Sing and Swing) that starred David Hemmings and was released in 1963.
Sing and Swing: Directed by Lance Comfort. With David Hemmings, Jennifer Moss, John Pike, Heinz Burt. Four teenage GPO dispatch riders in London form a band named 'The Smart Alecs', who go to various lengths to get themselves noticed.
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- Comedy, Musical
- Lance Comfort
- 1963-11-29
A young postman, who fronts a pop group, dreams of being bigger than The Beatles. They record a demo tape, but things seem to be going pear shaped when he loses the tape. There is also his father to contend with who thinks he's wasting his time with all that pop music nonsense.
By no immodest margin versatile filmmaker, Lance Comfort's ludicrously likeable 'Live it up!' remains one of the perkiest, pop-tastic teen movie rave-ups Britain ever produced!
- Lance Comfort
- The Rank Organisation, Three Kings
John Pike Cast. Lyn Fairhurst Story, Screenplay. Harold Shampan Story. Basil Emmott Cinematography. John Trumper Editing. C. Le Mesurier Sound. Critics reviews. A young postman, who fronts a pop group, dreams of making it big. They record a demo tape, but things seem to be going pear shaped when he loses the tape.
Icon-in-waiting David Hemmings looks distinctly uncomfortable as the Post Office messenger who defies trad dad Herbert (Ed Devereux) to bid for the top with his band The Smart Alecs, prompting a hackneyed subplot about an audition tape and a big American producer.
Live It Up! is a British music-film (US release title: Sing and Swing) released in 1963. It was filmed at Pinewood Film Studios in London, England, and featured Gene Vincent, Jenny Moss, The Outlaws, Patsy Ann Noble, The Saints and Heinz Burt (most of them being produced by Joe Meek who wrote the film's theme) among others. It was filmed at ...
