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    These Dangerous Years (1957)

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    Having made his film debut in Ramsbottom Rides Again a year earlier, singing star Frankie Vaughan appears here in his first dramatic lead as Dave Wyman, a tough Liverpudlian tearaway who gets called up with his best friend Smiler (Ray Jackson) for their National Service in the (fictional) Loamshire Regiment of the British army.

    Dave is the leader of the dockside Liverpool gang ‘the Dingle Boys’ and is well-known to the local police.

    The camp bully, Private Simpson (Michael Ripper), kills Dave’s pal, Smiler, on a minefield and according to the law of the street, that means Dave needs to take revenge.

    He runs away and heads back to Liverpool when he is thought to be responsible for shooting Simpson and George Baker’s Padre leads the hunt for the AWOL Dave as he flees through the streets with the authorities in pursuit.

    The film borrows the best ideas, gags and situations from time-honoured mixed-up kid melodramas and square-bashing comedies and presents them against authentic backgrounds.

    Carole Lesley plays Dave’s girlfriend, Dinah, and there are lots of well-known British actors in support, including John Le Mesurier, Thora Hird, Kenneth Cope and Michael Ripper. Watch out for an uncredited David McCallum in one of his earliest feature film appearances.

    Vaughan sings three numbers in the film: Isn’t This a Lovely Evening?, Cold, Cold Shower and These Dangerous Years, written especially for the picture.

    The film was shot at Elstree Studios and on location at Mill Hill Barracks in London, and in Liverpool. The movie was produced by Anna Neagle and directed by her husband, Herbert Wilcox.

    Dave Wyman
    Frankie Vaughan
    Padre
    George Baker
    Dinah Brown
    Carole Lesley
    Maureen
    Jackie Lane
    Mrs Wyman
    Katherine Kath
    Mrs Larkin
    Thora Hird
    Danny
    Eddie Byrne
    Juggler
    Kenneth Cope
    Cream O’Casey
    Robert Desmond
    Smiler Larkin
    Ray Jackson
    Capt. Brewster
    Richard Leech
    Commanding Officer
    John Le Mesurier
    Sgt. Lockwood
    David Lodge
    Pvt. Simpson
    Michael Ripper
    Hairdresser
    Reginald Beckwith
    Police Sergeant
    Martin Boddey
    Badger
    John Breslin
    Sergeant
    Ralph Reader

    Director
    Herbert Wilcox

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