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Writers:
Richard Carr (writer)
John Cassavetes (writer)
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Release Date:
28 March 1962 (France) more
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Tagline:
The Bold Story Of A Man Caught Between Two Strange Loves!
Plot:
Ghost is an idealogical musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds that compromise himself... more | add synopsis
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Happy Birthday, Bobby Darin!
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Between experiment and mainstream. more (7 total)

Cast

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Bobby Darin ... John 'Ghost' Wakefield
Stella Stevens ... Jess Polanski
Everett Chambers ... Benny Flowers
Nick Dennis ... Nick
Vince Edwards ... Tommy

Val Avery ... Frielobe
Marilyn Clark ... Countess
James Joyce ... Reno
Rupert Crosse ... Baby Jackson
Cliff Carnell ... Charlie, the saxophonist
Richard Chambers ... Pete, the trumpeter

Seymour Cassel ... Red, the bassist
Dan Stafford ... Shelley, the drummer
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103 min
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Montgomery Clift was originally going to play the lead role of Ghost. more

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7 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Between experiment and mainstream., 21 July 2003
Author: dbdumonteil

Coming after "shadows" and preceding "a child is waiting" ,"too late blues" is some kind of arithmetic mean between them.Not overtly avant-garde ,but never really mainstream,unlike the 1959 movie ,it has a screenplay and most of the dialogues are not improvised:actually they sometimes seem "carefully" written.

Stella Stevens gives a wistful sad performance ,diametrically opposite to later parts such as those of "girls girls girls" (!)or 'the silencers".Her singing -or that of the singer who dubs her?- looks like a moaning which stunningly blends with the boys' music.

"Too late blues" keeps a rather loose plot,but "a child is waiting "would take its "conventional " side and tighten it up:as a result ,Cassavetes would disown "a child..." and go back to less accessible works such as his debut.

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