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Someone sew a couple of buttons on Peter Frampton's shirt, and we can get on with this. (Yes, male décolletage is O.K. No, male décolletage in Frampton's case is not O.K.; he lacks a serious thorax.) What we have is an impudent attempt to filmify and cinemogrificate a collection of old Beatles tunes, most of them from the marvelous 1967 LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...
...conceit is that the original Sgt. Pepper and his three sidemen were heroic World War I bandsmen who returned to their town of Heartland and, after full lives, bequeathed their instruments to the four little boys who would grow up to become the second Sgt. Pepper band. These are Frampton, a sweet-faced youth with wilted blond hair, and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the brothers who are the Bee Gees...
...action of the movie has the Heartland boys whipped off to Hollywood and exposed, poor things, to the temptation of Big Bucks. There is a splendidly absurd contract-signing orgy, involving some expensive and schizophrenic kidding of the rock world's overdose of money, and soon Frampton has forgotten all about Strawberry Fields (Sandy Farina), the sappily beautiful girl back home. "A difficult one-week rise from obscurity to stardom," as one of the film's captions puts it, follows...
...Peppers...--No, we haven't seen this yet, either, and we don't want to. We're old enough to remember the '60s, and this movie offends us. Peter Frampton, get lost...
...function of film studies on a university level, says Petric, is to introduce the student to cinematic artists whom the popular moviegoers ignore: experimental filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Bruce Bailey, or Hollis Frampton, or foreign artists such as Kenji Mizoguchi or Jean-Luc Godard...