Shake, Rattle and Rock!

Shake, Rattle and Rock (1956)

Jeff and Cheryl await the verdict on movies featuring Fats Domino in Shake, Rattle and Rock!

Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Written by Lou Rusoff
Produced by Sunset Productions by Alex Gordon and James H. Nicholson 

Starring:
Mike “Touch” Connors as Garry Nelson
Lisa Gaye as June Fitzdingle
Sterling Holloway as Albert “Axe” McAllister
Douglass Dumbrille as Eustace Fentwick III
Raymond Hatton as Horace Fitzdingle
Margaret Dumont as Georgianna Fitzdingle
Percy Helton as Hiram, the funeral director
Paul Dubov as Bugsy Smith
Eddie Kafafian as Nick
Charles Evans as Bill Bentley
Clarence Kolb as Judge McCombs
Fats Domino as himself
Tommy Charles as himself
Jimmy Pickford as Eddie
Leon Tyler as Aloysius Pentigrouch
Pat Gregory as Pat
Rosie and Carlos as teen dance contest winners
Annitta Ray as Annita, singing teen
Giovanna Fiorino as Helen
Frank Jenks as Frank, TV program manager
Joe Devlin as squad car officer
Pierre Watkin as Mr. Armstrong, the editor
Nancy Kilgas as Nancy
Choker Campbell as himself
and Big Joe Turner as himself

Produced by Sunset Productions for American International Pictures

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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)