Dateline Diamonds

Name: Dateline Diamonds
Genre: Comedy, Music, Crime
Released: 1965-09-27
Duration: 73 min
Rating: 6.5

★ 6,5 /10 (6 Votes)

1965 EN 73 min

Overview

In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me."

Release date

27/09/1965

Votes

Popularity

0.7

Genres

Comedy Music Crime

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

73 min

William Lucas

Major Fairclough

Kenneth Cope

Lester Benson

Conrad Phillips

Tom Jenkins

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Patsy Rowlands

Mrs. Edgecomb

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George Mikell

Paul Verlekt

Burnell Tucker

Dale Meredith

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Anna Carteret

Gay Jenkins

Vanda Godsell

Mrs. Jenkins

Gertan Klauber

Meverhof

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Doel Luscombe

Assistant Commissioner

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Peter Zander

Spankharen

Geoffrey Lumsden

Army Officer

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Ronald Bridges

Garage Attendant

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The Chantells

Themselves

Kenny Everett

Himself

Kiki Dee

Herself

Original Soundtrack

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I'm not sure if the Chantelles, Kiki Dee and the Small Faces had the same record company, but you could easily be forgiven for thinking so as they feature substantially amongst this otherwise rather poor diamond heist caper with William Lucas as "Maj. Fairclough" who ropes the heavily indebted Kenneth Cope ("Benson") who manages the Small Faces, into a diamond smuggling racket using the famous "Big L" pirate radio ship as their conduit to Rotterdam. The performances - especially an early one from Kiki Dee are all this has going for it - and that's not really saying much. The sheer silliness of…

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