 When Peter Noone meets Harve Presnell it's about one girl, Connie Francis. |
HERMAN'S HERMITS aren't getting much of a chance to go into hiding these days. The Hermits, who sang the charms of a certain "Mrs. Brown's Lovely Daughter" on to the top of world hit parades, have scored another hit with Mrs. Francis' lovely daughter, Connie. The boys have teamed with Miss Francis to make a swinging, singing college campus film - their first. And to prove that there's nothing in a name and that their real aim is togetherness, the Hermits' movie is called "When The Boys Meet The Girls." The boys go all the way on the togetherness angle. Besides socialising with Connie Francis, they share the spotlight with Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, and Reese and David. But while Herman and the boys are matching their musical muscles with their swinging colleagues, a singing gentleman named Harve Presnell sings his way into the affections of Connie. "When The Boys Meet The Girls" is a light-hearted story about a rich college playboy (Presnell) who is sent to a backwoods Nevada college to help him become less of a playboy. At the college he meets a curvaceous student-cum-mailwoman (Connie Francis), who has taken on the mail job to help pay her rancher father's gambling debts, incurred in the casinos of Las Vegas. After learning about Connie's problem, Presnell (with the aid of the Hermits, Louis Armstrong and Co.) decide to overcome it. They turn Connie's father's ranch into one of the dude variety catering for rich Reno devorcees who like to wait for their decree to arrive to the sound of music and in the atmosphere of a pseudo Old West. Of course, they finally achieve what they set out to do, and so does Presnell, who has set out to win Miss Francis' heart. However, the Hermits show they still have confidence in their own wench-winning ability for future films by giving out with Gershwin's "Bidin' My Time" as their big number. |