Play It Cool

Play It Cool (1962)

Twist Vs. Swing!

A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to see and with whom she is hoping to elope.

Date of release
1962-07-22
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Music, Drama
Director
Michael Winner

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

Play It Cool is a 1962 British musical film directed by Michael Winner and starring Billy Fury, Michael Anderson Jr., Helen Shapiro, Bobby Vee, Shane Fenton, Danny Williams, Dennis Price, Richard Wattis, Maurice Kaufmann and Anna Palk.

Production

Michael Winner said he was given the job off the back of several short films he had made. He later commented: "they started to make pop films and that provided the break for young directors. The French New Wave had produced a few young directors and the idea of a director in his twenties was not totally unheard of. That’s how Sidney Furie came in, you know, with Cliff Richard.

Winner called it "Britain’s first twist film. Except nobody was twisting there yet, so they didn’t quite know what it was ... But working on a feature film of whatever calibre was obvious preferable to sitting at home waiting for the phone to ring." He wanted to make the movie on location in real clubs but the producers turned down the idea: “We don’t want to go into the West End.

The only hit from the songs featured in the film was Fury's rendition of "Once Upon a Dream".

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