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Having a Wild Weekend|Dave Clark

Having a Wild Weekend

Dave Clark and Barbara Ferris
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Overview

In HAVING A WILD WEEKEND, the Dave Clark Five, popular Merseyside competitors of the Beatles during the 1960s, play fictional characters in the their film debut rather than exploit their own personalities as the Fab Four had in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. When popular model Dinah (Barbara Ferris) feels she needs some R and R, she and Steve, Lenny, Rick, Mike, and Dennis (the Dave Clark Five), a bunch of stuntmen that she's just met on a commercial shoot, head for an island off the coast of Devon in the production company's white Jaguar. On the way, they have an encounter with some beatniks and inadvertently wander onto a military test field, where the Jaguar is vaporized by an errant missile. Resorting to hitchhiking, they get a ride from a wealthy middle-aged couple Guy (Robin Bailey) and Nan (Yootha Joyce), who invite them to an arts ball in the city of Bath. Since Dinah is incommunicado, Zissel (David De Keyser), an ad exec, informs a newpaper columnist that the model has been kidnapped. Best for archeologists and fans of the quondam quintet, HAVING A WILD WEEKEND includes their biggest hit, "Catch Us If You Can." The film also marks John Boorman's directorial debut.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
John Boorman - Director
Dave Clark
Barbara Ferris
Lenny Davidson
Rick Huxley
Mike Smith
Denis Payton
Clive Swift
Hugh Walters
Robin Bailey
Yootha Joyce

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (Manufactured on Demand, Mono Sound)
  • Run Time: 91
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 883316616918
  • Genre: COMEDIES
  • Rating: NR
  • Release Date: August 2012

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
John Boorman directed this fun feature about Merseybeat also-rans, the Dave Clark Five. Life as movie stuntmen grows tiring for Dave and the lads, so they escape, with a beautiful model in tow, to a tropical island to get away from it all. But they soon discover that their paradise has plenty of surprises. The songs are the point here, and they include the hit "Catch Us If You Can," "I Can't Stand It," and the title tune.

Notes:
Theatrical release: July 28, 1965.

Reviews:
"...It's obvious from one party scene that Boorman wasn't just sloughing off the assignment..." - 05/30/1997 USA Today, p.9D


"[T]he storytelling is inventive and energetic, with some of the same zany humour that characterised both Richard Lester's films of the era..." - 10/01/2007 Sight and Sound, p.85

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