Some People Reviews

A propagandistic piece of youth trash that has three members of a Bristol, England, motorcycle gang--Brooks, Andrews, and Hemmings--losing their licenses after being clocked at over 100 mph and winding up in an accident. They decide to form a rock-'n'-roll band and take an interest in the Duke of Edinburgh's award scheme. Encouraged by choir director-organist More to take part, some dissension develops amongst the teens. Everyone accepts the one-time delinquents by the picture's finale, however, with the adults' common sense working a miracle cure on the wild ones. That's not quite the way it works in real life, but in this film, released in 1962, the scriptwriters are more concerned with giving their youth program a pat on the back than actually confronting the issues. Hemmings was the only one of the young actors to make it big in later films, following his role in Michelangelo Antonioni's BLOWUP (1966).