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CREDITS
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Don't
confuse this with the Steven
Spileberg-Leonardo
DiCaprio movie, Catch
Me If You Can. For a short while in the mid-sixties,
the Tottenham Sound of the Dave Clark Five was tipped
to eclipse the Liverpool Sound of the Beatles, and the
Five duly launched what was presumably intended to be an imitation of A
Hard Dayís Night.
While the Beatles had Richard
Lester (who had made films with The Goons), the Five scored by choosing first-time director
John Boorman, who turned in something darker and colder than a standard pop-pic.
The Five play stuntmen (Dave
Clarkís pre-drumming occupation) who escape the
boredom of London, where they work as porters at the
old Smithfield Meat Market
for a series of encounters with an array of the countryís
top-notch (and underrated) character actors in the West
Country.
The island they retreat to which turns out, symbolically,
to be still connected to the mainland at low tide, is
Burgh Island, connected
by the strange sea-tractor ‚ seen at the end of the
movie ‚ to Bigbury-on-Sea,
Devon, twelve miles east of Plymouth on the B3392.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR CATCH
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Never travelled by sea tractor? Stay at the art-deco Burgh
Island Hotel, Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon (tel: +44 (0) 1548 810514).
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