Some People (1962)

Some People: Directed by Clive Donner. With Kenneth More, Ray Brooks, Anneke Wills, David Andrews. The story of three teenaged tearaways Johnnie, Bill and Bert who find themselves at odds with society. Following a brush with the law they have a chance meeting with a local choirmaster who offers them a way of making good.

“Not many films used to be shot in Bristol, England in the 1960s. But Some People was shot entirely in and around the old city going out of its way to show the main characters in the very spots they would actually have been hanging about in real life as aimless teenagers. I know for certain because my parents were courting teens at that very time in that very place. I showed them the film recently (yes theyu0026#39;re still a couple 54 years later) and the locations were very accurate to life as they knew it. My father actually worked in the Aircraft factory featured. The dance club in the film was the top spot for young Bristolians to cut a rug in 1962, a favorite place for them and all of their young friends (the front door manned by no less than Dave Prowse (not in the film unfortunately), the actor who made good as Darth Vader in a slightly better known film.) Bristol has changed but not so much that anyone familiar with it wouldnu0026#39;t know most of the locales. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNot much of a film really critically speaking, but well cast, well meaning, and well…itu0026#39;s not half bad. If you know the place itu0026#39;s a precious document though of a time and place which can never be duplicated.”