Jamboree

Jamboree adheres to the usual formula of late-1950s rock&roll films: A plethora of musical numbers linked together by the wispiest of plotlines. Kay Medford heads the cast as manipulative showbiz agent Grace Shaw. Hoping to land pop singer Pete Porter (Paul Carr), Grace connives to break up Pete's ...more

A product of independent producers Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky -- but distributed by Warner Bros. -- Jamboree (1957) was almost certainly the last "musical" release of a major studio in black-and-white. It's not much of a movie, about two young people (played by Paul Carr and Freda Halloway) trying to make it in the music business, surviving the manipulations of their respective managers (Kay Medford, Robert Pastine) and finding true love as well as success. But surrounding this are some ...more