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Calypso Heat Wave

  • 19571957
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 26m
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5.5/10
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Calypso Heat Wave (1957)
DramaMusical
Everything's going well at Disco Records, where singer Johnny Conroy is popular and publicity chief Marty Collins is good at her job, as well as in love with company boss Mack Adams. Everyth... Read allEverything's going well at Disco Records, where singer Johnny Conroy is popular and publicity chief Marty Collins is good at her job, as well as in love with company boss Mack Adams. Everything changes when Barney Pearl shows up.Everything's going well at Disco Records, where singer Johnny Conroy is popular and publicity chief Marty Collins is good at her job, as well as in love with company boss Mack Adams. Everything changes when Barney Pearl shows up.
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    • Fred F. Sears
    • David Chandler(screenplay)
    • Orville H. Hampton(story)
  • Stars
    • Johnny Desmond
    • Merry Anders
    • Meg Myles
    • Fred F. Sears
    • David Chandler(screenplay)
    • Orville H. Hampton(story)
  • Stars
    • Johnny Desmond
    • Merry Anders
    • Meg Myles
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    • 5User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Johnny Desmond
    Johnny Desmond
    • Johnny Conroy
    Merry Anders
    Merry Anders
    • Marti Collins
    Meg Myles
    Meg Myles
    • Mona DeLuce
    Paul Langton
    Paul Langton
    • Mack Adams
    Joel Grey
    Joel Grey
    • Alex Nash
    Michael Granger
    Michael Granger
    • Barney Pearl
    George E. Stone
    George E. Stone
    • Books
    The Treniers
    • The Treniers
    The Tarriers
    • The Tarriers
    The Hi-Los
    • The Hi-Los
    Maya Angelou
    Maya Angelou
    • Maya Angelou
    Dick Whittinghill
    Dick Whittinghill
    • Dick Whittinghill
    Darla Hood
    Darla Hood
    • Johnny's Duet Partner
    Pierce Lyden
    Pierce Lyden
    • Hi-Fi
    Gil Perkins
    Gil Perkins
    • First Thug
    William Challee
    William Challee
    • Second Thug
    King Charles MacNiles
    • Mac Niles
    • (as Mac Niles)
    Alan Arkin
    Alan Arkin
    • Tarriers Lead Singer
    • (uncredited)
      • Fred F. Sears
      • David Chandler(screenplay)
      • Orville H. Hampton(story)
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    • Trivia
      Film debut of Alan Arkin. The same about actress Maya Angelou.
    • Goofs
      The scenes in the Disco Records studio showing records being made depict the recordings being done direct to acetate or lacquer master discs. By 1957 all records were being made with tape recorders; the tapes were later mastered to discs in labs set up for that purpose.
    • Crazy credits
      Where "THE END" would normally appear, we are treated to "DAT'S ALL, MON!"
    • Connections
      Featured in Alan Arkin: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      The Banana Boat Song (version 2)
      Traditional, modified lyrics by Erik Darling, Bob Carey and Alan Arkin

      [Incorrectly credited as written by Erik Darling, Bob Carey and Alan Arkin]

      Courtesy of Glory Records

      Performed by Alan Arkin and The Tarriers (as The Terriers)

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    6/10
    Do Re Mi
    Another Sam Katzman Special which somehow manages to work. A mobbed-up jukebox operator goes into the song production business and turns out to have a knack for finding talent.

    A large part of the movie's success is due to the effective and subtle camera work of Benjamin Kline, a man who worked as cinematographer for fifty years, for talents as diverse as Tom Mix and the Three Stooges. In this one he gives you a lot of long, leisurely takes with a slowly moving camera during the story scenes and then switches tempo effectively for the musical numbers.

    A kind word should also be reserved for director Fred Sears, who averaged five movies a year and had a busy acting career going -- and died in his mid-forties the year he made this. The decent performances he gets out of poor actors indicates, as few others of his cheapjack movies do, that had he lived longer, he might have turned into a very good director.

    There's also a chance to play 'spot the talent'. Try to find Joel Grey a decade before his Broadway breakout in CABARET and even Maya Angelou. It's amazing the talent that Katzman could pick up on the cheap -- even when he couldn't think of what to do with it.
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      • June 1957 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Clover Productions
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    • 1 hour 26 minutes
      • Black and White

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