British Comedy Guide
Catch Us If You Can. Image shows from L to R: Steve (Dave Clark), Dinah (Barbara Ferris). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL
Catch Us If You Can

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.

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Catch Us If You Can. Copyright: STUDIOCANAL

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

Anglo Amalgamated

Warner Brothers

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

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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

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