The Young Ones

PLOT

The story is about a youth club member, and aspiring singer, Nicky (Cliff Richard) and his friends, who try to save their youth club in London's West End from an unscrupulous millionaire property developer Hamilton Black (Robert Morley), who plans to tear it down to make room for a large office block.

The members decide to put on a variety show to raise the money needed to buy a lease renewal. The twist in the story is that Nicky is Hamilton Black's son, something he keeps secret from his friends until some of them try to kidnap Black, to prevent him from stopping the show. Although he is fighting his father over the future of the youth club, Nicky cannot allow them to harm him, so he attacks the attackers and frees his father.

Meanwhile, Hamilton Black has realised that his son is the mystery singer that all of London is talking about, after the youth club members have done some pirate broadcasts to promote their show. So, although he has just bought the theatre where the show is to take place, in order to be able to stop it, the proud father decides that the show must go on. At the end, he joins the youth club members on stage, dancing and singing, after having promised to build them a new youth club.

CAST

Cliff Richard as Nicky

Robert Morley as Hamilton Black

Carole Gray as Toni

The Shadows as the musicians

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

Sean Sullivan as Eddie

Harold Scott as Dench

Gerald Harper as Watts

Rita Webb as woman in market

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

US title: Wonderful to Be Young!