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    Catch Us If You Can (1965)

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    Hoping to cash in on the success of A Hard Day’s Night (1964), producer David Deutsch hired first-timer John Boorman – who later directed Deliverance (1972) – to bang out a quick pop confection starring Britain’s hugely successful Dave Clark Five.

    Instead, Boorman delivered this moribund film where drummer Clark plays permanently miserable TV stuntman Steve, who runs out on a Meat Marketing Board advertising campaign, steals an E-Type and escapes the city with the campaign star, Dinah (Barbara Ferris) for a few strange days on the run.

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    Pursued by a rabid caravan of advertising agency sharks and reporters, the couple encounter junkie beatniks on an army firing range, jaded swingers in Bath (Yootha Joyce is superb), and crushed dreams.

    It’s a downbeat, plodding and existential affair with the same three DC5 songs repeated ad nauseam (with incidental music from Basil Kirchin) and no real plot or purpose to speak of. It’s hard to see how Clark’s non-plussed, miserable performance added to his pop idol status.

    The film was retitled as Having A Wild Weekend for the US market.

    Steve
    Dave Clark
    Lenny
    Lenny Davidson
    Rick
    Rick Huxley
    Mike
    Mike Smith
    Denis
    Denis Payton
    Dinah
    Barbara Ferris
    Louis
    David Lodge
    Guy
    Robin Bailey
    Zissell
    David De Kayser
    Nan
    Yootha Joyce
    Whiting
    Robert Lang
    Duffle
    Clive Swift
    Grey
    Hugh Walters

    Director
    John Boorman

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