Cult musical drama about a leather-jacketed rocker who forms a Shadows-style guitar band under the tutelage of a hip youth club leader, incurring the wrath of his old biker gang buddies. This unlikely mixture of juvenile delinquency flick and promotional film for the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme is a terrific snapshot of teenage life in 1960s Bristol.
Made thirteen years after Britain’s first major gay film Nighthawks, Strip Jack Naked puts the earlier film into an historical and personal context, with director Ron Peck drawing on his own journey from closeted suburban teen to politically radicalised filmmaker. A lucid account of the responsib...
Musician Davy Spillane stars as a reluctantly-married young traveller in this Irish road movie written by Neil Jordan. Michael and his wife Angela are tasked with smuggling goods back over the border from Strabane, but their road trip seems doomed at every turn - weighed down by history and pover...
Nicky (Cliff Richard) and his friends find their youth club threatened by a property tycoon - who happens to be Nicky's father - intending to buy it and tear it down. Determined not to be beaten, they sing and dance to raise money to save the club.
