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    Tommy Steele Story, The (1957)

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    Having learnt to play the guitar while in hospital, Bermondsey boy Tommy Steele discovers his ability as a performer while working as a ship’s steward in this fictionalised biography of Britain’s first rock ‘n’ roll star.

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    Returning to London, Tommy is given an engagement at a Soho coffee bar. He is subsequently asked to make a record and becomes a teenage idol.

    Steele is presented as unassuming and modest throughout. His doting parents are not people he has any arguments with – the closest they come to doing so is when he announces to them he is getting his money by playing in a coffee shop.

    This film’s main strength is in its friendliness, as it has no villains and simply exists to promote its star and his recording career.

    No rough edges to Tommy are apparent, even if there are in the penny-pinching production, but then, what did they really need to spend a lot on? Tommy and his guitar were enough to bring in the punters.

    Tommy Steele
    Himself
    Mrs Steele
    Hilda Fenemore
    Mr Steele
    Charles Lamb
    The Steelmen
    Themselves
    Humphrey Lyttleton & his Band
    Themselves
    Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group
    Themselves
    Nancy Whiskey
    Herself
    Tommy Eytle Calypso Band
    Themselves
    The Caribbean club band
    Chris O’Brien’s Caribbeans
    Nurse
    Lisa Daniely
    Brushes
    Patrick Westwood
    John Kennedy
    Peter Lewiston
    Paul Lincoln
    John Boxer

    Director
    Gerard Bryant

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