{"id":28422,"date":"2018-12-31T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=28422"},"modified":"2018-11-03T23:41:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T03:41:42","slug":"rock-rock-rock-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/31\/rock-rock-rock-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rockrockrock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rockrockrock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rockrockrock.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rockrockrock-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rockrockrock-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a>In the long arena of musicals, \u201cRock Rock Rock!\u201d is easily one of the most lackluster of them all. It\u2019s pacing is weird, the acting leaves so much to be desired, and there\u2019s a lot of filler, but if you\u2019re willing to invest time in to it for the kitschy performances from folks like Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Connie Francis, you might just enjoy the inherent camp value. You also might get a giggle at a movie with probably the least effective \u201cconflict\u201d ever put to film.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Will Price\u2019s film stars a beautifully young Tuesday Weld, who makes her debut as Dori, a young girl going steady with her guy Tommy. The new girl in school wants her man, so she sets out to buy a (gasp!) strapless evening dress for the prom. Dori hopes to beat her to the punch by buying an even better strapless gown. But, dagnabit, her dad is angry about her spending her money on records and candy and cuts off her credit cards. So Dori sets out to earn the money she needs for the dress by making a deal with her friend. That\u2019s about as dramatic as \u201cRock Rock Rock!\u201d gets as the movie is hopelessly stupid and lacking in any real interesting characters.<\/p>\n<p>The musical aspect of the movie is awkward and tacked on as characters will literally spew dialogue, pause and begin singing to the camera. Tuesday Weld in particular is guilty of this (singing voice courtesy of Connie Francis) along with a particularly awful performance. At eighty five minutes, \u201cRock Rock Rock!\u201d only has about forty minutes of narrative, with the rest filled up with performances, and musical numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The movie even stops right in the middle to present us with four whole performances from the roster of rock stars included. There are at least folks like Alan Freed, The Flamingos, Frankie Lymon &amp; The Teenagers. \u201cRock Rock Rock!\u201d is terrible, but it\u2019s worth some time for the fine rock stars, and some horrendous performances. I especially got a kick out of the introduction of Ivy Schulman and the Bowties, as she literally struggles not to acknowledge the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the long arena of musicals, \u201cRock Rock Rock!\u201d is easily one of the most lackluster of them all. It\u2019s pacing is weird, the acting leaves so much to be desired, and there\u2019s a lot of filler, but if you\u2019re willing to invest time in to it for the kitschy performances from folks like Chuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1572],"tags":[302,698,700,766,866,1033],"class_list":["post-28422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-rockandrollny","tag-drama","tag-music","tag-musical","tag-performance","tag-rock","tag-teen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28424,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28422\/revisions\/28424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}