• Film ID:
  • 15748
  • Availability:
  • DVD Available from Shop
  • Film cert:
  • Running time:
  • DVD=112 min.
  • Nationality(ies):
  • America.
  • Primary Language(s):
  • English.
TELSTAR (2008)
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Flamboyantly gay in a time when homosexuality was still outlawed, independant record producer Joe Meek, though tone deaf, drug addicted and famously paranoid, was responsible for a string of 1960s chart-toppers including 'Have I the Right', 'Just Like Eddie', 'Johnny, Remember Me' and 'Telstar'. This is a likeably quirky film that starts very well as a helter skelter comic biog but struggles to change tune as the ultimate tragedy of Meek's life finally takes hold. Odd, flawed, but well worth a watch.
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