AKA Having A Wild Weekend."But you missed the journey."
The Dave Clark Five play a group of film extras/stuntmen living in the midst of swinging London. Whilst shooting a TV advert Steve (Dave Clark) decides to ditch his life and heads for the road (in a stolen car) with Dinah (Barbara Ferris) the star of the Ad in tow. They head off to Devon, but will their dreams lead to happiness or disillusionment?
So here we have an attempt to big up the Tottingham sound. Unfortunately Clark has none of the personality needed to carry a film, being tasatern and sullen and the pop musings of Boorman and his stark cinamatography only serve to highlight this. Still for all that, it is one of the better pop films of the 60's, due to Boorman, the downbeat script, and almost inspite of Dave Clark appearing in it. Mind you I'd still watch Smashing Time or Head if I wanted to view a film about mass media manipulation in the sixties.
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