The Young Ones (1961)

When a wealthy tycoon (Robert Morley) buys up several blocks of real estate to put up new buildings, a youth club finds itself without a home. When a loophole in the lease allows them to keep the property for five more years if they can come up with 1,500 pounds, they decide to put on a show to raise the money. What the millionaire doesn't know is that his son (Cliff Richard) is the club's ringleader. While America had teenagers swooning over Elvis Presley and Pat Boone, England's equivalent was Cliff Richard who never quite caught on in the U.S. This youth musical is yet another resurrection of the old Judy and Mickey MGM musicals. The innocuous film doesn't have an original idea in its collective head. The songs are a mundane bunch though one of them, When The Boy In Your Arms was a top 10 hit for Connie Francis in the U.S. Fortunately, the choreography by Herbert Ross (yes, the future director of THE GOODBYE GIRL and THE TURNING POINT) is rousing and well done, the highlight being a terrific mambo number. Directed by Sidney J. Furie (THE IPCRESS FILE). With Carole Gray and, of course, The Shadows.