David Essex takes the viewer on a trip around picturesque Isle of Wight locations, including Shanklin beach, Sandown High School, the bridge over the river round the back of Sandown Waterworks, Pontins Little Canada Holiday Camp. Shanklin Theatre, and outside the Rex at Ventnor which isn't there any more.
Big excitement down here on the Isle of Wight back in 1970 when this was going on, actually. I'd recently left school, but my Dad still taught there and it was his classroom which was used as the location (later to become the music room, where my daughter did her music A level). I helped at lunchtime at Shanklin Liberal Club, where the cast and crew were fed and watered at lunchtime during the Shanklin Theatre filming (no-one famous, though!). And assorted school friends pop up as extras - hi there, Sudsy and Hoof!
So the local connection means I always regard this movie with fondness, but I also like it for two other reasons. One it is an atmospheric evocation of an era important to me personally and, two, it showed Ringo that there was life after The Beatles.
Big excitement down here on the Isle of Wight back in 1970 when this was going on, actually. I'd recently left school, but my Dad still taught there and it was his classroom which was used as the location (later to become the music room, where my daughter did her music A level). I helped at lunchtime at Shanklin Liberal Club, where the cast and crew were fed and watered at lunchtime during the Shanklin Theatre filming (no-one famous, though!). And assorted school friends pop up as extras - hi there, Sudsy and Hoof!
So the local connection means I always regard this movie with fondness, but I also like it for two other reasons. One it is an atmospheric evocation of an era important to me personally and, two, it showed Ringo that there was life after The Beatles.