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Buddy Bregman, Gus Backus, Charlie Barnet, Fats Domino, Gogi Grant, Harry James, Joe Lopes, Andra Martin, Freddy Martin, Howard Miller, Harry Mills, Herbert Mills, John Mills, Russ Morgan, William Reynolds, George Shearing, David Somerville, Jeri Southern, Cal Tjader, The Del Vikings, The Lancers, The Diamonds, and The Bill Thompson Singers in The Big Beat (1958)

Sure, your music's advanced - but everything's advanced until people catch on!

Hans Conried, Andra Martin, and William Reynolds in The Big Beat (1958)

William Reynolds

Andra Martin

Gogi Grant

David P. Harmon

Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock &apos;n&apos; roll acts.

Will Cowan

The Big Beat

Interesting if you like 1950s music

&quot;The Big Beat&quot; has something of a tiresome familiarity about it. There were a lot of movies during the mid- to late 1950s that had basically the same approach: some kind of lame background plot (in this case, intrigue at a record company), a few obscure B-movie actors, and numerous musical acts, which of course comprise the main focus of the film.

&quot;The Big Beat&quot; deals, more or less, with the efforts of John Randall (William Reynolds) to promote the recordings of his father&apos;s record company by taking a new business approach. Rose Marie and Hans Conreid are thrown into the mix, and Andra Martin and Jeffrey Stone provide additional support. There&apos;s an interesting twist ending that most viewers will see coming miles away.

The main interest here is the music, with Fats Domino, Gogi Grant, The Del-Vikings, the Diamonds, the Mills Brothers, and other acts highlighted. Some artists are good, some so-so, but the groups are interesting if you like 1950s music.

A footnote: many people who were involved with &quot;The Thing that Couldn&apos;t Die&quot; (Reynolds, director Cowan, Stone, and Martin) are also involved with this movie. The two films are nothing alike but it&apos;s an interesting factoid.

"The Big Beat" has something of a tiresome familiarity about it. There were a lot of movies during the mid- to late 1950s that had basically the same approach: some kind of lame background plot (in this case, intrigue at a record company), a few obscure B-movie actors, and numerous musical acts, which of course comprise the main focus of the film.

"The Big Beat" deals, more or less, with the efforts of John Randall (William Reynolds) to promote the recordings of his father's record company by taking a new business approach. Rose Marie and Hans Conreid are thrown into the mix, and Andra Martin and Jeffrey Stone provide additional support. There's an interesting twist ending that most viewers will see coming miles away.

The main interest here is the music, with Fats Domino, Gogi Grant, The Del-Vikings, the Diamonds, the Mills Brothers, and other acts highlighted. Some artists are good, some so-so, but the groups are interesting if you like 1950s music.

A footnote: many people who were involved with "The Thing that Couldn't Die" (Reynolds, director Cowan, Stone, and Martin) are also involved with this movie. The two films are nothing alike but it's an interesting factoid.

actress shares first and last name with character

Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.

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