Having a Wild Weekend (1965)

Synopsis: In HAVING A WILD WEEKEND, the Dave Clark Five, popular Merseyside competitors of the Beatles during the 1960s, play fictional characters in the their film debut rather than exploit their own personalities as the Fab Four had in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. When popular model Dinah (Barbara Ferris)... In HAVING A WILD WEEKEND, the Dave Clark Five, popular Merseyside competitors of the Beatles during the 1960s, play fictional characters in the their film debut rather than exploit their own personalities as the Fab Four had in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. When popular model Dinah (Barbara Ferris) feels she needs some R and R, she and Steve, Lenny, Rick, Mike, and Dennis (the Dave Clark Five), a bunch of stuntmen that she's just met on a commercial shoot, head for an island off the coast of Devon in the production company's white Jaguar. On the way, they have an encounter with some beatniks and inadvertently wander onto a military test field, where the Jaguar is vaporized by an errant missile. Resorting to hitchhiking, they get a ride from a wealthy middle-aged couple Guy (Robin Bailey) and Nan (Yootha Joyce), who invite them to an arts ball in the city of Bath. Since Dinah is incommunicado, Zissel (David De Keyser), an ad exec, informs a newpaper columnist that the model has been kidnapped. Best for archeologists and fans of the quondam quintet, HAVING A WILD WEEKEND includes their biggest hit, "Catch Us If You Can." The film also marks John Boorman's directorial debut. [More]