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"Frank Ifield, the young Australian who made memorable an old standard called "I remember you' because he insisted on singing 'I remember you-hoo-hoo-ooo' has made his first musical film…… and his young director, Christopher Miles, whose first full-length feature this is, has come up with an off-beat original…"
THE SUN
''Up Jumped a Swagman' makes pop-film history. It's the first pop-idol vehicle in which the singer's dream of fame a fortune doesn't come true. As a matter of fact it puts it's foot through much of the mythology of charts and agents and dream-girls and teenage raves in a gay comedy style that blithely mixes fiction with fantasy. It is brimful of imaginative ideas.'
DAILY WORKER
'But visual imagination, real use of cinema, is always noticeable, from the pre-credit sequence of a cargo ship's arrival in London….. it's intelligently done, with funny small-part players - notably Ronald Radd as the chief crook - and many entertaining lines. (One will certainly become popular: "Have you an appointment?" "Yes, but this is more important")
PUNCH
"….brash and breezy routine musical written by Lewis Greiffer with a verbal sleight of hand in which the quickness of the tongue deceives the ear.'
DAILY MAIL
'…..but not before Christopher Miles has revealed a pleasing directorial talent for the cinema of the absurd'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
