Rock! Rock! Rock! . Austin Chronicle . 03-23-98

Rock! Rock! Rock!

DIRECTED BY: Will Price

REVIEWED: 03-23-98

The skimpy plot of Rock! Rock! Rock! (D: Will Price, 1956; with Tuesday Weld, Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio, Chuck Berry, Alan Freed) concerns Weld's travails in raising money for a prom dress, the acting is not too great, but who the hell cares? It's just a skeleton for Alan Freed (who should have been discouraged from singing) to hang a bunch of rock & roll songs on. See the Burnette boys burn it up in their only film appearance, Chuck Berry duck-walks through "You Can't Catch Me," LaVerne Baker and Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers perform, and if you watch closely you'll see Valerie Harper. Unfortunately, you also have to sit through some no-namers and Connie Francis providing some songs for Tuesday to lip-sync to, but that's what your FF button is for.

--Jerry Renshaw

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