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Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957)
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Release Date:
July 1957 (USA) moreGenre:
MusicalTagline:
It's a Rock 'n' Roll Riot! morePlot:
The white folk of Jamaica are afraid that calypso music will replace "bop" (which in this film, is not a form of jazz... more | full synopsisUser Comments:
Worth Time For Some of the Music -- Use Fast Forward moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Judy Tyler | ... | Jo Thomas |
| Bobby Troup | ... | Robert Hilton |
| Margo Woode | ... | Marion Hendricks |
| Mary Kaye | ... | Herself |
| Lord Flea | ... | Himself |
| Nino Tempo | ... | Specialty Act |
| Lucien Littlefield | ... | Professor Winthrop |
| George O'Hanlon | ... | Barney |
| Jered Barclay | ... | Jerry, backup band leader (as Jerry Barclay) |
| Judy Harriet | ... | YMCA Rehearsal Singer |
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80 minCountry:
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Black and WhiteSound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)MOVIEmeter: 
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This is an easy film to mock. The leads can't act. (Nor can the supporting players.) The plot -- something about scientific proof that Calypso was about to replace Rock n' Roll as the reigning pop music --could have been conceived by Ed Wood. The fact that our hero was about to marry a Eugenics professor (yes, they did call it "Eugenics") who was enthusiastic about the genetic make up of their future child was unintentionally creepy. And, agonizingly, the titular Bop Girl cannot sing either Rock or Calypso. (She doesn't try to sing Bop -- for which the shade of Charlie Parker was likely grateful.) But these music movies of the 50s were not about the plot. Plot was an interlude for the kids to start smooching at the drive in. It was about the music. And SOME of that in this film was quite good.
For example, the first six or seven minutes are quite good. The credit sequence is Nino Tempo blowing a very hot r&b sax with a good stomping band. We move to another group (not sure who) singing pretty. Then, alas, we get some very, very, very bad music. Then some lame plot. Then, the highlight, a gentleman named Lord Flea, whose two features in the movie are exceptional. (Want to know where Bob Marley came from? Take a look. Then lobby EMI to get Flea's music re-released.) Generally, the better music is in the first half of the movie. Things start to get increasingly Ed Wooden after that, and the Bop Girl is allowed to sing far, far too often.