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Part of the Vintage Classics collection British musical drama starring David Essex and Ringo Starr as friends who make good on the rocky road to rock and roll stardom. Set in the 1950s, the film follows Jim MacLaine (Essex) as he dreams of stardom but finds himself in a series of dead-end jobs until he meets Mike (Starr). Starting out in a small-town band, the two find success as the local holiday camp act and move on to bigger and better things. The cast also includes Rosemary Leach, James Booth, Billy Fury and Keith Moon.

That'll Be The Day (1973)
87 min
Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll.