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Twist Around the Clock | |
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Directed by | Oscar Rudolph |
Written by | Robert E. Kent |
Produced by | Sam Katzman |
Starring | Chubby Checker |
Cinematography | Gordon Avil |
Edited by | Jerome Thoms |
Music by | Freddy Karger |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | December 30, 1961 |
Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.4 million (US/Canada) [1] |
Twist Around the Clock is an American musical film released in 1961. It was a remake of Sam Katzman and Robert E. Kent's Rock Around the Clock. Like Rock Around the Clock, which was followed by a sequel titled Don't Knock the Rock, the film was followed by a sequel titled Don't Knock the Twist.
A struggling manager visiting a hayseed town discovers a new dance craze, the Twist, and hopes to turn it into an overnight nationwide sensation.
Twist Around the Clock only cost $250,000 to make, but in less than six months it grossed six million - so of course I'm gonna make more 'Twist' movies !
— Sam Katzman
Describing the film as having "something resembling a plot," critic Eleanor Mannikka wrote in AllMovie that "In the end, this teen-oriented tale is best remembered for two of Dion's hit songs, " Runaround Sue" and " The Wanderer". [2] Writing for Turner Classic Movies, critic Rob Nixon described the film as "a remake of the first true rock 'n' roll musical, Rock Around the Clock (1956), with a nearly identical plot." [3] A review of the film in TV Guide described it as "a bit of good fun" that "bears a certain naive charm of a long-gone era," and that it "is really just an excuse for plenty of rock tunes." [4]