This Zany British comedy stars Frank Ifield(originally from Coventry, England), as a guitar-twanging hopeful from Down Under, who forsaking the Australian music Scene,tries to get a productive audition with Lever, a London music Publisher, played by the laconic Richard Wattis, who is out to fleece his clients. Frank's crazy interest, is Billboard girl Suzy Kendall.
I never got past the first 10 minutes. It is the greatest load of tripe I have ever seen.
The story may not make a great deal of sense though it hardly matters. Rather it unfolds in the manner of a dream, at times resembling a series of Python-esque sketches, even though this was apparently the result of scripting problems as much as by intention.
Poor Frank Ifield - in his one and only film appearance, he gets himself landed with this total load of tosh! No wonder his cinematic career was doomed before it even began, as this movie must have been some sort of curse.
Extended video clip for Frank Ifield, an "Australian" country singer whose albums you may have found in grandmother's stereogram.
I saw this on B.B.
If you like Richard Wattis or Bryan Mosley(Alf Roberts), not forgetting the lovely Annette Andre(Pre Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), then this film is for you.Suzy Kendall is good but she doesn't really appear as much as Annette A.
This fairly entertaining, surrealist musical fantasy is handled in a very curious style by director Christopher Miles. The surrealist dialogue scenes are put across perfectly straight with the director pointedly making himself as unobtrusive as possible.
