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Hitting the road with the Dave Clark Five | Letter

Sean Kaye-Smith on a music film that didn’t have a happy ending, in response to an article on Slade’s bid for cinema greatnessWithout wishing to take anything away from Slade and Flame, it wasn’t the first British pop music film to offer a downbeat take on the entertainment industry (‘The Citizen Kane of rock movies’: glam rockers Slade and their bid for cinema greatness, 14 April). John Boorman’s 1965 film Catch Us If You Can presents the Dave Clark Five – lovably free of acting talent – as stunt men in the advertising industry escaping west with Barbara Ferris, the poster girl of a meat campaign.Thinking that they are Mini-Moking their way to a new life of freedom and love in the mystical West Country – despite a bizarre encounter with some disillusioned beatniks on Salisbury Plain – they discover that the ruthless advertising executives have been using their elopement as a publicity stunt. We hear the band’s music, but never see them play, and neither do we get a happy ending. All this is captured by Manny Wynn’s sombre black and white photography. Continue reading...

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