Catch Us If You Can
- 1965 film
Comic adventure film starring pop group The Dave Clark Five. Also features Dave Clark, Lenny Davidson, Rick Huxley, Mike Smith, Denis Payton and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1965
- Stars
- Dave Clark, Lenny Davidson, Rick Huxley, Mike Smith, Denis Payton, Barbara Ferris, David Lodge, Robin Bailey and more
- Writer
- Peter Nichols
- Director
- John Boorman
- Producers
- David Deutsch and Basil Keys
- Company
The Dave Clark Five play a group of Stepney-based friends and stunt men who have been hired by a corporate agency to appear in an advertising campaign for "Meat For Go", fronted by the model Dinah.
During the filming of a TV commercial the group grow increasingly weary with the process and one of their number, Steve, soon absconds with Dinah in a stolen E-Type Jaguar. They make their way across a wintry southern England towards an island that she plans to buy with the proceeds from her modelling career. This act of rebellion is cynically exploited for publicity by the advertising executive behind the campaign, Leon Zissell, who dispatches two of his henchmen to pursue the fleeing couple.
On their journey, Steve and Dinah encounter a group of hippies squatting in MOD-owned buildings on Salisbury Plain, an eccentric middle-aged married couple in Bath and Steve's boyhood hero, former judo teacher Louis.
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Additional details
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 99 minutes
- Distributors
- Also known as
-
- The Dave Clark Five Runs Wild
- Having A Wild Weekend (US title)
- Production
- Location
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Black and white
Website links
Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
-
- Wednesday 21st July 2021 at 3:00am on TPTV
- Thursday 31st December 2020 at 12:45am on TPTV
- Friday 13th March 2020 at 11:35am on TPTV
Recording details
- Bath, London, Roman Baths (Bath) and Royal Crescent (Bath)
- Burgh Island - Concluding sequence