Rock Around the Clock
Opens on July 22
Director: Fred F. Sears Run Time: 77 min. Format: 35mm Film Release Year: 1956
Starring: Alan Freed, Bill Haley and the Comets, Johnny Johnston, The Platters
Jumping on the teenage bandwagon, Columbia Pictures produced this highly fictionalized version of the discovery of rock and roll. A big band manager (Johnston) gives up on jazz and goes looking for the next big thing… and he finds it in the form of Bill Haley and His Comets.
Double Feature with PAL JOEY