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Don’t Knock the Rock *** (1956, Bill Haley and the Comets, Alan Dale, Alan Freed, Little Richard) – Classic Movie Review 9863

‘The Rock Kings Are Back – At Their Greatest! ‘ Director Fred F Sears’s 1956 black and white music movie Don’t Knock the Rock is Bill Haley’s hastily made, rushed-out follow-up to the earlier 1956 […]

Jun, 04 · in Reviews

Rock Around the Clock *** (1956, Bill Haley and the Comets, The Platters, Freddie Bell and His Bellboys, Tony Martinez and His Band) – Classic Movie Review 9862

‘It’s The MOST!!!’ Disc jockey Alan Freed (as himself) discovers Bill Haley and the Comets in a small-town and makes them a hit in New York, in director Fred F Sears’s 1956 black and white […]

Jun, 04 · in Reviews

Rock, Pretty Baby! *** (1956, Sal Mineo, John Saxon, Luana Patten, Fay Wray, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 9861

‘I’m the victim of the greatest social disease of our generation: parents.’ – Angelo Barrato (Sal Mineo). Director Richard Bartlett’s engaging 1956 American low-budget youth-oriented comedy musical movie Rock, Pretty Baby stars Sal Mineo, John […]

Jun, 03

The Young Don’t Cry *** (1957, Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 9,859

The honest, good-hearted 1957 American troubled youth crime drama film The Young Don’t Cry stars Sal Mineo as an orphanage teenager who gets involved with a chain-gang convict (James Whitmore).  Director Alfred L Werker’s downbeat […]

Jun, 03

A Private’s Affair ** (1959, Sal Mineo, Christine Carère, Barry Coe, Gary Crosby, Barbara Eden, Terry Moore, Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis) – Classic Movie Review 9860

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1959 comedy A Private’s Affair is a story of military mayhem, with a trio of naughty young servicemen – US Army private Luigi J Maresi (Sal Mineo), Jerry Morgan (Barry Coe) and […]

Jun, 03

Escape from Zahrain * (1962, Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Jack Warden, Madlyn Rhue, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 9858

Director Ronald Neame’s 1962 Escape from Zahrain is escapist adventure nonsense in which Sharif (Yul Brynner), an Arabian captured rebel leader, is freed by young revolutionaries and flees from the law from the fictitious Arab […]

Jun, 03

Tonka ** (1958, Sal Mineo, Philip Carey, Jerome Courtland) – Classic Movie Review 9857

Italian American Sal Mineo is odd, awkward casting but gets a useful role in Walt Disney Productions’s junior 1958 Western adventure film Tonka [A Horse Named Comanche] about a young Sioux Indian boy called White […]

Jun, 03

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