Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** It's 1960 with the King Elvis Presley drafted into the US Army with Rock & Roll music now on life support talent scout Mitch Mason played by a very youthful looking John Cronin who according to the IMDb Bio. of him is supposed to have been born in 1904, making him 55 years old at the time the movie was made, and his friend and fellow talent scout Dizzy Bellew, Alvy Moore, travel to his hick town in New England named Alpine Peaks to checkout this new dance craze called "The Twist" thats the talk of the town. With Clay Cole doing the both singing and twisting on stage the two are amazed in that everyone in town young old and even those blue noeses who can't stand hip & jive music are into it! That in them throwing away all their inhibitions and just twisting the night, that's Saturday night, away! Knowing that he's got a gold mine in the "Twist" becoming the biggest music craze to hit the USA since Rudy Valley Mitch tries to get top music promoter Joe Marshall,Tol Avery, to promote it and it's singer Clay Cole and the two dancers who preform it Tina & Larry Louden, Mary Mitchell & Jeff Parker. But poor Mitch faces an uphill struggle in having Marsall agree with him. He has to marry Marshall spoiled rotten to the core daughter Debbie, Maura McGiverey, before he gives him the O.K!An almost carbon copy of the 1956 Rock & Roll hit movie "Rock Around the Clock" made five years earlier with the same corny and cheesy ending with Mitch ending up legally stiffing Joe Marshall in his so-called iron clad contract and even like in the movie "Rock Around the Clock" slipping in the them song from the movie "From Here to Eternity" for good measures. Still it's worth watching with the great songs in it preformed by Chubby Checker Dion, Dion Dimucci, "The Marcels" as well as pretty teenage singing sanitation Vicki Spencer that will make you forget just how silly the movie really is.What you really get to see in the movie "Twist Around the Clock" is just what a great and generous person the great Chubby Checker really is. Even though it was Chubby who made the Twist the most popular dance craze of the 1960's he didn't mind disk jockey and later talk show host Clay Cole taking credit for it in the film! Something you'd never see with the dog eat dog competition and egos among those in the popular music business today.

Bud_Brewster TCM showed a marathon of rock n' roll movies on January 31, 2007 and I taped the entire 12-hour run. I really enjoyed "Rock Around the Clock" (1956). It was energetic and fun, with plenty of good music.Then I started watching the next feature, "Twist Around the Clock" (1961).I expected the two films to be similar -- but I was flabbergasted when I realized that "Twist" was filmed using exactly the same script as "Rock"! The plot elements were copied perfectly, scene-for-scene. In fact, the dialog was even the same – word-for-word – throughout both movies!Watching these two films back-to-back is like a trip to the Twilight Zone -- a perfect example of parallel universes.

django-1 TWIST AROUND THE CLOCK, the first of two TWIST films produced by Sam Katzman and featuring the great Chubby Checker, is basically a remake of the old BIll Haley vehicle ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK, and like that film, the "star" here, Chubby Checker, is little more than a guest star in his own film. In the earlier film, Alan Dale is featured as the lead performer and his story is told, with Bill Haley merely being a "friend" who helps the lead character and who performs a handful of songs. Here, Clay Cole is featured, and Chubby Checker does three or four songs, has a few lines of dialogue, and performs in a group number at the film's finale. Checker is a fine performer, and he handles the dialogue well--the NEXT Twist movie he was in, DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST, was MUCH better in that Checker was given a lot more importance in the story, and had much more dialogue with star Lang Jeffries. As for TWIST AROUND THE CLOCK, it also has Dion do three songs, and the vocal group the Marcels do a nice Christmas twist song. However, the dramatic sections of the film are weak, especially so since they are a carbon copy of the same plot in the earlier Bill Haley movie. If you take the Dion and Chubby songs, and the Marcels' number, out of the film, there is really not much else worthwhile. Fans of DON'T KNOCK THE TWIST will recognize the same cheesy sets and tiny "stage" used as the TV studio in that film. Serious rock and roll fans should see this film ONCE so they can say they have seen ALL the pre-Beatles rock and roll films, but only the lip-synched Chubby Checker and Dion songs are worth keeping. This was aired a few years back on AMC, where I taped my copy and originally saw the film.

unclerussie If I had never seen "Rock Around the Clock", this movie might be a little easier to take. You see, the producers didn't even bother to write a script; they just copied the one used for "Rock Around the Clock" some years earlier. If that wasn't bad enough, "Twist" pales in every comparison to the original. Horrible acting and mediocre songs are all over this film. It's only two bright spots are the appearances of Chubby Checker and Dion. And who ever told Clay Cole he could sing? Forget this one.