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Rock Around the Clock ()


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A frustrated big-band promoter bumps into rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets.

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Bill Haley and the Comets ...
Bill Haley and His Comets
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Bill Haley
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The Platters
Ernie Freeman Combo ...
Ernie Freeman Combo
Tony Martinez and His Band ...
Tony Martinez and his Band
Tony Martinez ...
Tony Martinez
Freddie Bell ...
Freddie Bell
Freddie Bell and the Bellboys ...
Freddie Bell and the Bellboys (as Freddie Bell and His Bellboys)
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Alan Freed
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Steve Hollis
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Corinne Talbot
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Lisa Johns
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Mike Dodd
Henry Slate ...
Corny LaSalle
Earl Barton ...
Jimmy Johns
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eric Dolphy ...
Baritone Saxophonist
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Dancer (uncredited)
Franny Beecher ...
Franny Beecher - Bill Hailey and the Comets (uncredited)
Lynette Bernay ...
Girl at Strawberry Springs Dance (uncredited)
Gilbert Brady ...
Dancer (uncredited)
Nikki Faustino Brady ...
Dancer (uncredited)
Frankie Brent ...
Frankie Brent - Freddie Bell and the Bellboys (uncredited)
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Club Patron (uncredited)
George Christopherson ...
Dancer (uncredited)
Russ Conti ...
Russ Conti - Freddie Bell and the Bellboys (uncredited)
Marie Dixon ...
Young Woman in Audience (uncredited)
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Prom Dancer (uncredited)
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Dancer (uncredited)
Peggy Gordon ...
Dancer (uncredited)
Johnny Grande ...
Johnny Grande - Bill Hailey and the Comets (uncredited)
Jean Harvey ...
Miss Mullen (uncredited)
Ralph Jones ...
Ralph Jones - Bill Hailey and the Comets (uncredited)
Jack Kane ...
Jack Kane - Freddie Bell and the Bellboys (uncredited)
Chick Keeney ...
Chick Keeney - Freddie Bell and the Bellboys (uncredited)
Joe Lanza ...
Dancer (uncredited)
David Lynch ...
David Lynch - The Platters (uncredited)
Ernie Maresca ...
Ernie (uncredited)
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Mr. Gilflavin (uncredited)
Jerry Mayo ...
Jerry Mayo - Freddie Bell and the Bellboys (uncredited)
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Technician (uncredited)
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Club Patron (uncredited)
Joe Palma ...
Waiter (uncredited)
Michael Peterson ...
Dancer at Town Hall (uncredited)
Murray Pollack ...
Club Patron (uncredited)
Rudy Pompilli ...
Rudy Compilli - Bill Hailey and the Comets (uncredited)
Herb Reed ...
Herb Reed - The Platters (uncredited)
Al Rex ...
Al Rex - Bill Hailey and the Comets (uncredited)
Paul Robi ...
Paul Robi - The Platters (uncredited)
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Club Patron (uncredited)
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Club Patron (uncredited)
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Technician (uncredited)
Lennie Smith ...
Dancer (uncredited)
Lou Southern ...
Boy at Strawberry Springs Dance (uncredited)
Zola Taylor ...
Zola Taylor - The Platters (uncredited)
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Motel Operator (uncredited)
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Miss Dunlap (uncredited)
Tony Williams ...
Tony Williams - The Platters (uncredited)
Billy Williamson ...
Billy Williamson - Bill Hailey and the Comets (uncredited)
Freda Angela Wyckoff ...
Dancer (uncredited)

Directed by

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Fred F. Sears

Written by

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Robert E. Kent ... (story and screenplay) &
James B. Gordon ... (story and screenplay)

Produced by

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Sam Katzman ... producer

Cinematography by

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Benjamin H. Kline ... director of photography (as Benj. H. Kline)

Editing by

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Saul A. Goodkind ... (as Saul A.Goodkind)
Jack Ogilvie ... (as Jack W. Ogilvie)

Art Direction by

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Paul Palmentola

Set Decoration by

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Sidney Clifford

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Gene Anderson Jr. ... assistant director

Sound Department

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J.S. Westmoreland ... sound (as Josh Westmoreland)
James Nelson ... sound effects editor (uncredited)

Stunts

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Kaye Wade ... stunt double (uncredited)

Music Department

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Fred Karger ... music supervisor

Additional Crew

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Earl Barton ... choreography

Production Companies

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Special Effects

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Other Companies

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  • RCA Sound System (sound recording system)
  • International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) (this picture made under the jurisdiction of)
  • Decca Records (courtesy of: recordings of "Rock Around The Clock", "Happy Baby", "Rock", "Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie", "See You Later, Alligator", "Razzle Dazzle", "ABC Boogie" and "Mambo Rock")
  • Mercury Records (courtesy of: recordings of "Only You", "The Great Pretender", "Cueros", "Mambo Capri", "Sad and Lonely", "Codfish and Potatoes", "Giddyup Dingdong" and "I'm Gonna Teach You How To Rock")

Storyline

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Plot Summary

Orchestra manager Steve Hollis realizes that big-band music is dead. People want something new, but what? On their way to New York, Steve and his companion Corny, stop at a motel in a small place called Strawberry Springs. It's Saturday evening, and a huge number of young people are going to the Town Hall to listen to a local band called Bill Haley and His Comets, playing a new kind of music called rock'n'roll. It is accompanied by a new way of dancing, led by the siblings Lisa and Jimmy Johns. Steve immediately recognizes that this could be what all America is waiting for. He convinces the band and the dancers to let him organize their nationwide breakthrough, and goes to New York to arrange bookings with the top agent Corinne Talbot. She has for a long time tried to get Steve to marry her, but in vain. She now realizes that Steve is in love with the young dancer Lisa Johns, which makes her change her strategy. Corinne tries to stop the rock'n'roll group everywhere, but despite all her efforts they soon are a big success all over the country. And Lisa is smarter than Corinne. Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}

Plot Keywords
Taglines The Music.The Dancing. Rock'n'Roll at its Beginning. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Rock and roll (France)
  • Al compás del reloj (Argentina)
  • Ao Balanço das Horas (Brazil)
  • Senza tregua il rock n roll (Italy)
  • Tunnista tuntiin (Finland)
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Runtime
  • 77 min
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Box Office

Budget $300,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Queen Elizabeth II requested a print of this film be shown at Buckingham Palace, one of this first times this was done with a major motion picture. See more »
Goofs When Lisa Johns is being interviewed by Corinne Talbot at a street side diner, you see the same woman in a fur coat walk by the window (twice) while the same car and transit bus (twice) go by the window after the traffic signal changes. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Let the Good Times Roll (1973). See more »
Soundtracks Rock Around The Clock See more »
Crazy Credits Instead of "The End," the movie concludes with THE LIVING END See more »
Quotes Corny LaSalle: Hey, sister, what do you call that exercise your gettin'?
Girl Dancer #1: This is rock-n-roll, brother! And we're rockin' tonight!
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