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A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
Cast
Paul Rhys
Dean Swift
Lionel Blair
Harry Charms
Slim Gaillard
Party Singer
Eddie O'Connell
Colin, Photographer / Narrator
David Bowie
Vendice Partners
Gary Beadle
Johnny Wonder
Bruno Tonioli
Maltese Lodger
Chua Kah Joo
Dancer
Edward Tudor-Pole
Ed the Ted (as Tenpole Tudor)
Robbie Coltrane
Mario
Sylvia Syms
Cynthia Eve
Carmen Ejogo
Carmen
Zoot Money
Chez Nobody Barman (as G.B. (Zoot) Money)
Ray Davies
Arthur, Colin's Dad
Mandy Rice-Davies
Flora, Colin's Mum
Julian Firth
The Misery Kid
Johnny Shannon
Saltzman
Patsy Kensit
Suzette
Joseph McKenna
Fabulous Hoplite
Sade
Athene Duncannon (as Sade Adu)
Bruce Payne
Flikker
Eve Ferret
Big Jill
Tony Hippolyte
Mr. Cool
Anita Morris
Dido Lament
Sandie Shaw
Baby Boom's Mother
Irene Handl
Mrs Larkin
Peter-Hugo Daly
Vern (as Peter Hugo-Daly)
Colin Jeavons
Pamphleteer
James Fox
Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen
Steven Berkoff
The Fanatic
Jess Conrad
Cappuccino Man
Eric Sykes
Arcade Attendant (uncredited)
Ronald Fraser
Amberley Drove
Graham Fletcher-Cook
Wizard
Alan Freeman
Call-Me-Cobber