Catch Us If You Can (AKA “Having a Wild Weekend”)
Directed by John Boorman
Written by Peter Nichols
1965/UK
Bruton Film Productions
First viewing/Netflix rental
[box] Here they come again, mmmm-mm-mm/ Catch us if you can, mmmm-mm-mm/ Time to get a move on, mmmm-mm-mm/ We will yell with all of our might/ Catch us if you can – “Catch Us If You Can”, lyrics by Dave Clark and Lenny Davidson [/box]
Mostly fails both as an A Hard Day’s Night rip-off and as a romantic drama. Still, the boys are cute and some of the songs are catchy.
Dinah (Barbara Ferris) is the “Meat” girl, starring in a massive ad campaign aimed at carnivores. While shooting a TV commercial, she and Steve (Dave Clark), one of the stunt men, run off together. Their disappearance becomes part of the ad campaign. In the mean time the entire band cavorts together in a very Lester-esque manner.
Worth seeing if you were there, are a completist, and have a lazy afternoon on your hands.
