Ragazzi del Juke-Box

Ragazzi del Juke-Box (a.k.a. Juke-Box Kids) is a 1959 Italian "musicarello" film directed (and co-written) by Lucio Fulci and starring Mario Carotenuto, Elke Sommer and Anthony Steffen.[2] Lucio Fulci has a cameo in the film as a festival organizer.[3]

Ragazzi del Juke-Box
Film poster
Directed byLucio Fulci
Written byLucio Fulci
Piero Vivarelli
Vittorio Vighi
Produced byGiovanni Addessi
StarringMario Carotenuto
Elke Sommer
Anthony Steffen
CinematographyCarlo Montuori
Edited byGabriele Varriale
Music byEros Sciorilli
Production
company
Era Cinematografica
Distributed byLux Film[1]
Release date
August 13, 1959
Running time
102 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Box office1.4 million lira

More than for the subject and the script, it deserves to be considered for the cast comprising some of the greatest characters of Italian pop music at the time of the screamers. The film sees the first film success of Adriano Celentano (who the previous year had made a first appearance in I frenetici) and includes for example the version of the band I Campioni of the song considered the first Italian rock'n roll, Ciao ti dirò del 1958 with text by Giorgio Calabrese and music by Gian Franco Reverberi [1] already interpreted by Giorgio Gaber and then by Ricky Gianco.[4]

Plot

Sir Cesari (Mario Carotenuto) runs a record company that promotes the classical music he loves. But when he goes to prison, his attractive young daughter Giulia (Elke Sommer) takes over the company and uses it to promote rock n' roll singers instead.

Cast

References
  1. Thrower, Stephen (1999). Beyond Terror, the films of Lucio Fulci. FAB Press. page 272.
  2. "RAGAZZI DEL JUKE BOX (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  3. Howarth, Troy (2015). Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. Midnight Marquee Press. Page 70.
  4. Scalenghe, Franco; Sampietro, Piero; Andreoletti, Emilio Gian (January 1967). "Alcuni aspetti del controllo ormonale de glicogeno nel cuore e nel muscolo schetrico del Tritone crestato". Bolletino di Zoologia. 34 (1–4): 172. doi:10.1080/11250006709440839. ISSN 0373-4137.
  5. Howarth, Troy (2015). Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. Midnight Marquee Press. page 70.


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