The Young Ones

The Young Ones

108 mins | Comedy, Music | Dec. 19, 1961

Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.

The Young Ones

108 mins | Comedy, Music | Dec. 19, 1961

The Young Ones
Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Paramount, Associated British Picture Corporation, Warner-Pathé Distributors
Original title The Young Ones
Directors Sidney J. Furie
Writers Peter Myers, Ronald Cass

Cast

Cliff Richard

as Nicky

Robert Morley

as Hamilton Black

Carole Gray

as Toni

Jet Harris

as Himself

Hank Marvin

as Himself

Bruce Welch

as Himself

Teddy Green

as Chris

Richard O'Sullivan

as Ernest

Melvyn Hayes

as Jimmy

Annette Robertson

as Barbara

Robertson Hare

as Chauffeur

Sonya Cordeau

as Dorinda Morell

Tony Meehan

as Himself

Sean Sullivan

as Eddie

Harold Scott

as Dench

Gerald Harper

as Watts

Rita Webb

as Woman in Market