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61% Critic Match
Wonderful to Be Young!
“Its Wonderful to be Young”
6.1 / 10• 1961• 1h 48m•NR• English
ComedyMusic
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Cliff Richard
Nicholas 'Nicky' Black
Lead
Robert Morley
Hamilton Black
Carole Gray
Toni
JH
Jet Harris
Self - The Shadows (bass guitar)
Hank Marvin
Self - The Shadows (lead guitar)
Bruce Welch
Self - The Shadows (rhythm guitar)
Teddy Green
Chris
Richard O'Sullivan
Ernest
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Sidney J. Furie's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Wonderful to Be Young! is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
