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C'mon, Let's Live a Little

  • 19671967
  • 1h 24m
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5.2/10
78
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C'mon, Let's Live a Little (1967)
ComedyMusical
Standard boy-girl malt shoppe doings, with a free speech on campus sub-plot dropped in.Standard boy-girl malt shoppe doings, with a free speech on campus sub-plot dropped in.Standard boy-girl malt shoppe doings, with a free speech on campus sub-plot dropped in.
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
78
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
99,627
338
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    • Director
      • David Butler
    • Writer
      • June Starr
    • Stars
      • Bobby Vee
      • Jackie DeShannon
      • Eddie Hodges
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    • Director
      • David Butler
    • Writer
      • June Starr
    • Stars
      • Bobby Vee
      • Jackie DeShannon
      • Eddie Hodges
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    • 8User reviews
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    Bobby Vee
    Bobby Vee
    • Jesse Crawford
    Jackie DeShannon
    Jackie DeShannon
    • Judy Grant
    Eddie Hodges
    Eddie Hodges
    • Eddie Stewart
    Suzie Kaye
    • Bee Bee Vendemeer
    Patsy Kelly
    Patsy Kelly
    • Mrs. Fitts
    John Ireland
    • Rego
    • (as John Ireland Jr.)
    Mark Evans
    • Tim Grant
    Russ Conway
    Russ Conway
    • John W. Grant
    Jill Banner
    Jill Banner
    • Wendy
    Kim Carnes
    Kim Carnes
    • Melinda
    Joy Tobin
    • Joy
    Frank Alesia
    • Balta
    Ken Osmond
    Ken Osmond
    • The Beard
    Don Crawford
    • Jeb Crawford
    Tiger Joe Marsh
    • Spuko
    Ben Frommer
    • Jake
    Ethel Smith
    Ethel Smith
    • An' Effel
    Bo Belinsky
    • Bo-Bo
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      • David Butler
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      • June Starr
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      Director David Butler said about this picture: "I don't even want to talk about that. I tried to do a favor for somebody, and we made it so fast that I don't know what happened . . . They ran short of money to finish the picture. I never got paid a quarter for it."
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    3/10
    C'mon, let's stink up the joint
    This was the last thing directed by David Butler, who'd done a lot of TV in recent years but earlier had made a lot of good major-studio features including prime vehicles for Janet Gaynor, Shirley Temple and Doris Day. This film purportedly had budget problems, and it's easy to see that it was probably not a great experience for anyone, least of all Butler, who was over 70 at the time and was clearly not the guy to make a mid-60s teen musical. At best, the movie feels like a mediocre television episode of the time; at worst, it's the "rock" equivalent of such bottom-barrel country music movies at the time as "Las Vegas Hillbillys" and "Hillbillys in a Haunted House."

    The print I saw was about 13 minutes shorter than the official original runtime, and I assume several songs got cut, since the first one doesn't turn up until nearly half an hour in, after which point they're almost incessant. The music is perfectly decent-Vee and DeShannon were fine singers, if not much as actors-even though the songs here are hardly memorable. But everything else pretty much blows, from the godawful comedy relief (poor Patsy Kelly and Eddie Hodges) to the utterly stupid plot engine of a terribly clean-cut campus "rebel" calling for "complete freedom," which both the dean and the movie seem to think is a terrible idea. This is a movie too afraid to do more than hint at politics, while suggesting that they are Bad. Real, wholesome youth don't have any ideas or issues on their minds!! Yeesh, even the same year's "The Cool Ones" was less antiquated.

    Even as fluff, this movie is airheaded-at least the equally silly beach party movies knew not to meddle with campus protest and such. Throwing everything but the kitchen sink in, there's a "flubber"-type subplot involving a wacky scientific-inventor kid (Hodges). There's also some "hillbilly" relatives who show up for five minutes, then disappear. Needless to say, the only things that have any value here are the music and the occasional go-go dancing, and the underwhelming climax from "The Pair Extraordinarire" really does suggest they ran out of money during production--surely the movie intended to end with a slightly bigger bang. Others have claimed "C'mon" is a potential camp classic (a la "The Cool Ones," which is MUCH more fun), but really, it's too lame for that.
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    • Release date
      • May 3, 1967 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Producers Studios - 5330 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Hertlandy Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 24 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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