rock baby - rock it (1957)

"Dig that square, he thinks he's an art critic."
The kids are digging the scene at a derelict warehouse, when a businessman turns up and willing to rent it. So the kids have a month to find the bread, or they are on the street.
Quicky made in Dallas, featuring a number of local acts, with the usual rudimentary plot and plenty of rock.

it's trad, dad (1962)

aka Ring-a-Ding Rhythm!.
"When the music finishes we'll try and sneak past them."
When the mayor of a new town has his coffee interrupted by teens listening to trad jazz, he decides to ban this hellish music. So its up to Helen (Helen Shapiro) and Craig (Craig Douglas) to try and enlist some DJ's and musicians to put on a concert and convince the mayor he is wrong.
If you wade through the mass of trad jazz on show, there are some gems to be found in this compendium of music, such as Gene Vincent, and Gary U.S. Bonds. In between the artists Dick Lester gets to audition his comedic style waiting for the right vehicle to arrive a couple of years later when the Beatles swept much of this music aside.

let's rock (1958)

"When are you going to come to the party. Rock and roll isn't a passing fad!"
Tommy Adane (Julius LaRosa) is a ballad singer, who is flummoxed by this new fangled thing called Rock 'n' Roll, and battles to stay a balladeer much against his manager's wishes.
Run of the mill, but for appearances by a number of interesting artists such as Danny and the Juniors, The Royal Teens, Paul Anka and The Tyrones.

savage mutiny (1958)

"I told you not to play with guns."
Assigned to a remote African island, Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) has to help, (or should that be force), an African tribe relocate, as the US Govt wants to use their homeland for some nuclear bomb tests. Annoyingly some enemy agents are provoking the natives into refusing to move, stopping America's progress in the Atomic age.
Jungle Jim enters the space age, with plenty of spying and American imperialism at its finest!

fury of the congo (1951)

aka Jungle Menace. "He got away."
When a rare type of horse is found to produce a powerful narcotic, Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) has to protect it from unscrupulour trappers, and help the tribe that hold the animal as sacred.
Cheap B-flick from the ex-Tarzan actor.

mark of the gorilla (1950)

"He's pretty smart for a gorilla."
Some gorilla's are spotted making mischief in a jungle where they have no right to be. Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) arrives to see what he makes of it, and stumbles on a nest of Nazis, who are disguising themselves as the apes whilst they look for gold.
Having debased humanity, the Nazi's then decide to muddy the character of gorilla's! Just when you though they couldn't get any lower!

dolemite (1975)

"I'm gonna let 'em know that Dolemite is back on the scene!"
Pimp and club owner Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) is in jail fitted up by some bent cops and his rival Willie Green (D'Urville Martin). The Govenor and an FBI agent come up with a plan to rid the city of these rotten apples by releasing Dolemite and let him at Willie and his associates!
Ultra cheap cash in, that throws in many ideas, but doesn't know how to execute them! Sloppily made, badly acted and incoherent - So bad it's good.