Advantages: Very atmospheric, highly watchable, excellent acting Disadvantages: Stardust being the follow-on to That'll Be The Day
CAST:
David Essex (as Jim MacLaine)
Ringo Starr (as Mike)
Rosemary Leach (as Mrs MacLaine, Jim's mother)
Robert Lindsay (as Terry Sutcliffe, Jim's schoolfriend)
Billy Fury (as Stormy Tempest)
Keith Moon (as J D Clover, drummer with Stormy Tempest's band)
James Booth (as Mr MacLaine, Jim's father)
Deborah Watling (as Sandra, Jim's one-night stand at holiday camp)
Patti Love (as Sandra's friend, Mike's one-night stand at holiday camp)
Rosalind ... ...Claude Witham
PRODUCERS: David Puttman and Sandy Lieberson
SCREENPLAY: Ray Connolly (adapted from his novel of the same name)
LENGTH: 194 minutes
YEAR OF RELEASE: 1973
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That'll Be The Day is set in 1959, and tells the story of how school dropout and rock'n'roll singer wannabe Jim MacLaine, loses his innocence.
Like with the other films and plays I have reviewed, I don't want to give the plot away to ...
CelticSoulSister 26.10.2009
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