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{{Short description|1960 British film by Ken Hughes}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Jazz Boat
| image = Jazz_Boat_(1960).jpg
| caption = British quad poster
| director = [[Ken Hughes]]
| producer = [[Albert R. Broccoli]] [[Harold Huth]]
| writer = [[John Antrobus]] [[Ken Hughes]]
| based_on = novel by [[Rex Rienits]]
| narrator =
| starring = [[Anthony Newley]] [[Anne Aubrey]] [[Bernie Winters]] [[James Booth]]
| music = [[Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson]]
| cinematography = [[Ted Moore]] [[Nicolas Roeg]]
| editing = [[Geoffrey Foot (film editor)|Geoffrey Foot]]
| studio = [[Warwick Films]]
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] (UK) [[Columbia Pictures]] (US)
| released = {{Film date|1960|02}}
| runtime = 96 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Jazz Boat''''' is a 1960 British black-and-white musical comedy film directed by [[Ken Hughes]] and starring [[Anthony Newley]], [[Anne Aubrey]], [[Lionel Jeffries]] and [[big band]] leader [[Ted Heath (bandleader)|Ted Heath]] and his orchestra.<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Jazz Boat |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150041607 |access-date=6 January 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> It was based on the 1960 novel of the same name by [[Rex Rienits]].

The cinematographer was [[Nicolas Roeg]].

Many of the cast and the same director also made ''[[In the Nick]]'' (1960).

==Plot==
Electrician Bert Harris boasts that he is a successful cat burglar, which leads to his getting mixed up with real thieves who need those special skills for a big jewellery heist. However, Bert was only making a "song and dance" about being a cat burglar. He discovers that it is too late to back out.

==Cast==
* [[Anthony Newley]] as Bert Harris
* [[Anne Aubrey]] as The Doll
* [[Bernie Winters]] as The Jinx
* [[James Booth]] as Spider Kelly
* [[Leo McKern]] as Inspector
* [[Lionel Jeffries]] as Sergeant Thompson
* [[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]] as Holy Mike
* [[Al Mulock]] as the dancer
* [[Joyce Blair]] as Rene
* [[Jean Philippe]] as Jean
* [[Liam Gaffney]] as Spider's father
* [[Henry Webb (actor)|Henry Webb]] as barman
* [[Ted Heath (bandleader)|Ted Heath]] as himself
* [[Frank Williams (actor)|Frank Williams]] as man whose bowler hat is knocked off in the market

==Production==
The book's author [[Rex Rienits]] later admitted that he disliked writing novels, but was in a career slump, so decided to write a novel to sell for cinematic rights.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=TV Times|first=Russell|last=Clark|title=The Bush Boy Who Wrote Outcasts|pages=8–9|date=14 September 1961}}</ref>

Filming started 15 June 1959.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]|url=https://archive.org/details/cashbox20unse_38/page/49/mode/1up?q=%22jazz+boat%22|title=Decca Gets Jazz Boat|date=20 June 1959|page=49}}</ref> A scene involving more than 200 extras was shot at [[Chislehurst Caves]] in [[Kent]]; on that night, the payroll was stolen, meaning they could not be paid.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121997205/?terms=%22jazz%20boat%22%20newley&match=1|date=2 July 1959|page=4|title=No roll for rock n rollers|newspaper=[[The Age]]}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it "an odd assortment of romance, jazz, musical comedy and youthful crime is poured into ''Jazz Boat''. ...What comes out is largely chaos although some of it is infectiously amusing. Mostly it is vague, disjointed and purposeless. Director Ken Hughes may have been making some sort of an attempt at parody of American crime pix."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=20 November 1960 |title=Jazz Boat |url=https://archive.org/details/variety220-1960-11/page/n237/mode/1up?q=%22rex+rienits%22 |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |volume=220 |pages=20}}</ref>

''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "A juvenile crime story barely strong enough for a B-feature, with guitars smashed over skulls in place of wisecracks as its type of humour, is given a few largely irrelevant songs and a bizarre mixture of characters to become a lively, muddle-headed British musical. ... Anthony Newley's offhand way of jesting gets few chances from the script and, compared with the spirited caricaturing of David Lodge and Al Mulock in the gang, leaves him a most ineffectual hero. The general farce and fantasy mix uneasily with the violent episodes, the more brutal of them centred round a detective, who is not only churlish and quick-fisted in the latest film style but handy with a broken bottle as well."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1960 |title=Jazz Boat |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305823152 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=27 |issue=312 |pages=32 |id={{ProQuest|1305823152}} |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

''[[TV Guide]]'' wrote, "While imitating American gangster films, this simple picture also provides a look at the British "[[Teddy Boy]]" subculture as some amusing situations, though none is particularly memorable."<ref>{{cite web |title=Jazz Boat |url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/jazz-boat/review/102690/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230091231/https://www.tvguide.com/movies/jazz-boat/review/102690/ |archive-date=30 December 2016 |access-date=6 January 2024 |website=TV Guide}}</ref>

[[Leonard Maltin]] called it an "Energetic caper."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/27406/Jazz-Boat/|title=Jazz Boat (1960) - Overview - TCM.com}}</ref>

''Filmink'' said it "starts out as a crime drama then weirdly turns into a musical (complete with dance numbers) then back into a crime drama again."<ref name="filmink">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/ken-hughes-forgotten-auteur/|title=Ken Hughes Forgotten Auteur|date=14 November 2020}}</ref>

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0053963}}
* [https://letterboxd.com/film/jazz-boat/ Jazz Boat] at Letterbox DVD
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|jazz_boat}}
* [https://www.reelstreets.com/films/jazz-boat/ ''Jazz Boat''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]

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[[Category:1960 films]]
[[Category:British musical comedy films]]
[[Category:1960s English-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Ken Hughes]]
[[Category:Films produced by Albert R. Broccoli]]
[[Category:Columbia Pictures films]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:1960 musical comedy films]]
[[Category:Films shot at MGM-British Studios]]
[[Category:1960s British films]]
[[Category:English-language musical comedy films]]
[[Category:Works by Rex Rienits]]
[[Category:Films scored by Kenneth V. Jones]]

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