Herbert Smith executive Stuart Levy Nat Cohen Peter Rogers
Starring
Tommy Steele
Cinematography
Peter Hennessy
Edited by
Ann Chegwidden
Production company
Insignia Films
Distributed by
Anglo-Amalgamated (UK) AIP (US)
Release date
1957 (1957)
Running time
70 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
£15,000[1]
The Tommy Steele Story is a 1957 British film directed by Gerard Bryant and starring Tommy Steele, dramatising Steele's rise to fame as a teen idol.[2] Along with Rock You Sinners, it was one of the first British films to feature rock and roll.[3] In the US, where Steele was not well-known, the film was released under the title Rock Around the World.[4][5] The film was announced in January 1957, three months after the release of Steele's first single "Rock with the Caveman".[6]
^Andrew Caine Interpreting Rock Movies: The Pop Film and Its Critics in Britain, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004p.117
^""THE TOMMY STEELE STORY"". The Australian Women's Weekly. 27 November 1957. p. 42. Retrieved 6 May 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
^"BFI Screenonline: Tommy Steele Story, The (1957)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
^Gary A. Smith, American International Pictures: The Golden Years, Bear Manor Media 2014 p 59
^"The Story of Tommy Steele". The Christian Science Monitor. 10 October 1957. p. 7.
^"Tommy Steele gets rolling" (PDF). Melody Maker. 12 January 1957. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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