Pop at the Movies: Volume 2

Collection of four musicals. In 'Up Jumped a Swagman' 1965 Frank Ifield stars as young Australian singer Dave Kelly who arrives in London seeking fame and fortune. Never one to set himself low targets, one of the first things Dave does upon his arrival in London, is fall in love with a beautiful model he sees on a billboard. He subsequently divides his time between pursuing his singing career and pursuing the girl in question, Melissa Smythe-Fury Suzy Kendall. However, will he find that happiness can exist in much less exotic forms than glamour and stardom In 'What a Crazy World' 1963 Joe Brown stars as a young man whose dreams of pop stardom unexpectedly come true. As an unemployed dreamer rattling around the arcades, cafs and nightspots of London's East End, Alf Hitchens Brown's prospects would look grim to some. However, despite issues with his family and a tempestuous relationship with his girlfriend Marilyn Susan Maughan, Alf maintains an upbeat attitude - the very quality that ultimately propels him to stardom. In 'Ballad in Blue' 1964 when a world tour takes burgeoning star Ray Charles to London he befriends a young boy called David Piers Bishop, who has recently lost his sight. Charles, who experienced a similar fate when he was young, feels great sympathy for David and tries to convince his parents to let the boy travel with him to visit a Parisian eye doctor. Relationship problems and the overprotectiveness of David's mother threaten to prevent the boy receiving tre
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