Nov 21st 
Grease**      

(US 1978)                  

A fresh-faced girl at Rydell High School loosens up order to win over her conceited but dishy boyfriend about town.
A rare case of a smash-hit 1970s musical, mainly because of its trendy stars and general youthful exuberance which translates reasonably well from the stage show, as well as a certain nostalgia in the grimmer 70s for the previous generation of the 1950s.

Written by: Bronte Woodard, Allan Carr.
Producers: Robert Stigwood, Allan Carr.
Director: Randal Kleiser.
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing. Jeff Conaway, Kelly Ward, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Eddie Deezen.
Photography: Bill Butler.
Music: Michael Gibson.
Songs: Jim Jacobs, William Casey.

Preceded by:
Tom and Jerry in
Mice Follies**
(US 1954. 7m.; d: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera; p: Fred Quimby.)

GREASE. John Travolta was already an international star after the success of Saturday Night Fever(qv), but in Olivia Newton-John he found the perfect Ginger Rogers to his Fred Astaire – on strictly modern terms, of course.