21-year old Freddie Stewart is running for president of his high school class. He overhears Sam Flint tell the principal that unless his son, 23-year-old Jackie Moran gets the position, he won't be contributing heavily to the school. The principal is all for fair play, but Stewart drops out on the news, then decides to run again on the platform there won't be any movie without it. Also 28-year-old classmate Frankie Darro thinks it's a good idea.
There is actually a teen-ager in the class, 19-year-old Warren Mills. The girls are similarly aged, including sisters June Preisser, Judy Clark, and Noel Neill (who wears glasses so no one will know she is actually Lois Lane). It reminds me of those beach movies in the 1960s, with more elaborate music (provided by Abe Lyman's band, and a jazzy version of "Loch Lomond" by Eddie Heywood and his orchestra in a bit that could be cut out for those audiences offended by Black people in a movie) and some mediocre comedians doing stale routines.
Given its beach-movie descendants, this Sam Katzman is sort of interesting, and the musical numbers are well done, if poorly lip-synced. But I can't recommend it to anyone who doesn't yearn for Annette Funicello.
There is actually a teen-ager in the class, 19-year-old Warren Mills. The girls are similarly aged, including sisters June Preisser, Judy Clark, and Noel Neill (who wears glasses so no one will know she is actually Lois Lane). It reminds me of those beach movies in the 1960s, with more elaborate music (provided by Abe Lyman's band, and a jazzy version of "Loch Lomond" by Eddie Heywood and his orchestra in a bit that could be cut out for those audiences offended by Black people in a movie) and some mediocre comedians doing stale routines.
Given its beach-movie descendants, this Sam Katzman is sort of interesting, and the musical numbers are well done, if poorly lip-synced. But I can't recommend it to anyone who doesn't yearn for Annette Funicello.