This forgettable teen rock musical from the early 60's which was certainly no competition to the same year's "West Side Story". The finger snapping, mambo's and jumping of Jerome Robbins choreography on the streets of the west side of Manhattan is missing and the dancing here is basically stagnant even with the upbeat music.
Another rock n roll/quasi-dramatic picture from the 60's, this film features that one hit wonder "Peppermint Twist," by Joey Dee. The film is USA network material, centering on a good o' Lounge Club in the city, where musicians are situated with bad acting roles and free booze.
There was a time in 1961 or so when Elvis was gone off to Germany to be in the Army, that suddenly, and for a brief time, you found Italian boys from New York and Philadelphia coming out of the woodwork with hit after hit. All of them cleancut, good Italian boys you would not mind taking home to mother.
Mediocre B movie capitalizing on the twist phase of the early 60's. Italian widower works day and night in a failing restaurant business putting his two boys Enrico and Rosario (Joey and Ricky) through `college in the east'.
Hey, Let's Twist is a time capsule to the youth culture of the Kennedy years. I remember seeing this at the tender age of 14 in theater back in Brooklyn.
I can think of four good reasons to watch this film.First, its an amazing time capsule of the 1960-61 period, showing the dance the Twist and the Peppermint Lounge which was famous for a short time back then.
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