Shake, Rattle & Rock!

Shake, Rattle & Rock! (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
62 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Edward L. Cahn

Written By:
Edward L. Cahn
Lou Rusoff

Actors:
Mike Connors ..... Garry Nelson (as Touch Connors)
Lisa Gaye ..... June Fitzdingle
Sterling Holloway ..... Albert 'Axe' McAllister
Douglass Dumbrille ..... Eustace Fentwick III
Raymond Hatton ..... Horace Fitzdingle
Margaret Dumont ..... Georgianna Fitzdingle
Percy Helton ..... Hiram, the funeral director
Paul Dubov ..... Bugsy Smith
Eddie Kafafian ..... Bill, TV station owner
Charles Evans ..... Judge McCombs
Clarence Kolb ..... Himself
Fats Domino ..... Himself
Tommy Charles
Jimmy Pickford
Leon Tyler

Synopsis:

Rock 'n' Roll vs The Squares! Cashing in on the rock 'n' roll craze sweeping America in the fifties, Shake, Rattle and Rock plays up the generation gap between hipster teens and older 'squares'. When a quartet of Puritan do-gooders try to impose a ban on the 'devil's music', TV producer Touch Connors (The Ten Commandments) does his best to convince the squares that the new music is harmless fun. Sterling Holloway (Meet John Doe) is a riot as Connors' jive-talking assistant! A showcase for the top rock 'n' roll talents of the day, Shake, Rattle and Rock stars Fats Domino performing 'I'm in Love Again', 'Ain't it a Shame' and 'Honey Chile', while Big Joe Turner rocks out on 'Feelin' Happy' and 'Lipstick, Powder and Paint'. Remade for TV in 1994 starring Ren e Zellweger.

The endearingly awful Shake, Rattle and Rock! serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats Domino heads the cast as 'himself', performing 'I'm in Love Again', 'Ain't it a Shame' and 'Honey Chile'. Likewise, Joe Turner offers renditions of 'Feelin' Happy' and 'Lipstick, Powder and Paint', while Tommy Charles and Annita Ray let loose with 'Sweet Love on My Mind' and 'Rockin' on Saturday Night'. The plot is one of the oldest known to man: a quartet of buttinsky do-gooders, played by screen veterans Douglass Dumbrille, Margaret Dumont, Raymond Hatton and Percy Helton, try to impose a ban on rock-and-roll, while TV producer Touch (later Mike) Connors does his best to convince the 'squares' that the new musical style is harmless fun. Sterling Holloway is a riot as Connors' jive-talking assistant, who lays on the hipster slang so heavily in one scene that he requires English subtitles! Shake, Rattle and Rock was (sort of) remade for TV in 1994 as one of Showtime Cable's 'Rebel Highway' entries.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 28 January, 2007.

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