For what it was, a low budget teen rock 'n roll drama, I liked it. I enjoy the music and the story. I thought Sandra Giles did well in her role of a Jane Mansfield knock-off. It's not Gone With The Wind, but how many 1950's rock 'n roll teen dramas were?
shareI'm looking for that film. Why is that I just finished James Ellroy's "Dick Contino's Blues" in his book Hollywood Nocturne
DCB is the real-life (or so it seems) story about the making of Daddy-o.
It's Ellroy so of course it's raw, staccato, no-punches pulled. Dig: it's from Contino's POV so you got a majorly talented musician/accordion player shambling around Hollywood trying to be a Hollywood player. DC is a small time crook in a big time loverboy body trying and failing at everycorner.
The story is part pathetic memoir, part bumbling small-time crook, and phoney kidnap caper-scam story that somehow leads to the making of a small time film.
Somehow--it's Ellroy of course so there's that--the longish short story entertains and cuts a wide swathe on the Hollywood scene, name-dropping, be-bopping, and commenting slyly and in-your-facely on the life and characters of tinsel town.... well, it's Ellroy.
Dig it.
Notes are to tones as numerals are to numbers.
I purchased my copy of Daddy-O off eBay.
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