Smashing Time (1967)
 Smashing Time is the ultimate Mod fairy tale with Lynn
Redgrave and Rita Tushingham as a pair of gawky country girls
navigating a candy-coloured whirl of London go-go clubs, boutiques
and swinging parties with the help of photographer Michael York.
In no time at all, Lynn Redgrave has become a tone-deaf pop
star (dig the Andrew Loog Oldham-clone who signs her up) while
waif-like Tushingham becomes a top model, and the new "Face
of the 60s."
The film obviously wanted to show how fast the new fads and
faces were coming and going during this frenetic period, and has
the girls eventually turning their backs on the Mod scene and
returning home to the country.
Written for the screen by Liverpudlian author and jazz singer
George Melly.
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