Wonderful Life ( Swingers' Paradise )

Wonderful Life (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Swingers' Paradise
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
109 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1964 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Sidney J. Furie

Written By:
Ronald Cass
Peter Myers

Actors:
Cliff Richard ..... Johnnie
Walter Slezak ..... Lloyd Davis
Susan Hampshire ..... Jenny
Melvyn Hayes ..... Jerry
Una Stubbs ..... Barbara
Derek Bond ..... Douglas Leslie
Joseph Cuby ..... Miguel (as Joe Cuby)
Richard O'Sullivan ..... Edward
Gerald Harper ..... Sheik / Scotsman / Harold
Bruce Welch ..... The Shadows
John Rostill ..... The Shadows
Brian Bennett ..... The Shadows
Hank B. Marvin ..... The Shadows

Synopsis:

Five young musical entertainers are cast off a luxury liner after disrupting the ship's power system. Using their guitars as paddles they get ashore and are startled to see a girl lashed to a runaway camel. Johnnie rescues her, ruining a film take, to the rage of the director. However, he is hired as the stunt man and the others asked to provide mood music. Realising that the film is going badly they decide to make their own version. Johnnie, pretending to rehearse the girl Jenny, acts as her leading man in a series of musical numbers. When the film is finished both versions are indifferent with good scenes in each. The director discovers from Johnnie what he has done and cuts both films together. The result is a smash hit.

Cliff Richard & The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, filled with romance, excitement and high spirits - not to mention a dozen musical numbers.

A group of (literally) drifting popsters find themselves involved in a grim sand-and-sandals desert movie. They reckon a few song-and-dance numbers would liven things up.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 12 February, 2010.