Be My Guest ** (1965, David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, Andrea Monet, Avril Angers, Joyce Blair, Jerry Lee Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 13,500

The 1965 British second feature musical film Be My Guest stars David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, Andrea Monet, Avril Angers, Joyce Blair, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Nashville Teens.

Director Lance Comfort’s 1965 British black and white second feature musical film Be My Guest stars David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, John Pike, Andrea Monet, Avril Angers, Joyce Blair, and David Healy.

David Hemmings stars as Dave Martin in a very thin and old-fashioned British musical about a rigged music contest for best local group and a London family’s new seaside boarding house in Brighton, where American singer Erica Page (Andrea Monet) and Dave’s friends Ricky (Steve Marriott) and Phil (John Pike) move in. Naturally Dave and his pals enter the contest and eventually expose the racket.

Amazing that the British cinema could make such stuff as late as 1965 and fail to react to all the changes that had happened in popular culture in the previous couple of years, such as the Beatles, the Stones, the new wave British realist films. However, there is some comfort in the support playing and the appearances of American rock ‘n’ roller Jerry Lee Lewis and the English rock band The Nashville Teens, not to mention The Zephyrs, Kenny & The Wranglers, The Niteshades and The Plebs.

Yet time changes everything. With David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, Jerry Lee Lewis, comedian Avril Angers, and dancer Joyce Blair all gone, nostalgia value is very high in this mid-Sixties time capsule.

Be My Guest is written by Lyn Fairhurst as a follow-up to Live It Up! (1963, also starring David Hemmings, Steve Marriott and John Pike.

It was released as a support feature to the Morecambe and Wise film The Intelligence Men.

US rock music producer Shel Talmy co-ordinates the score and composes the title music, performed by The Niteshades, who appear at the end.

Stephen Peter Marriott (30 January 1947 – 20 April 1991) co-founded and played in the rock bands Small Faces and Humble Pie.

While playing in Hamburg, Germany, The Nashville Teens backed Jerry Lee Lewis for his Live at the Star Club, Hamburg album.

Joyce Blair appears in the Edgar Wallace Mystery film Number Six (1962).

The cast are David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, John Pike, Andrea Monet, Ivor Salter, Diana King, Avril Angers, Joyce Blair, David Healy, Tony Wager, David Lander, Robin Stewart, Monica Evans, Pamela Ann Davy, Douglas Ives, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Nashville Teens, The Zephyrs, Kenny & The Wranglers, The Niteshades and The Plebs.

© Derek Winnert 2025 – Classic Movie Review 13,500

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