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* MorningRoutine: The movie opens with Steve and his friends being awoken by their organ alarm clock, getting ready for the day in their flat, and exercising in a nearby playground.


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* SynchronisedMorningRoutine: The movie opens with Steve and his friends being awoken by their organ alarm clock, getting ready for the day in their flat, and exercising in a nearby playground.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Steve and Dinah stay with wealthy couple Guy (Robin Bailey) and Nan (Yootha Joyce), who seem to get into regular shouting matches. Nan makes fun of everything about Guy, from his collections to his taste in marmalade, and doesn't mind insulting him in front of guests.

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* AwfulWeddedLife: Steve and Dinah stay with wealthy couple Guy (Robin Bailey) and Nan (Yootha Joyce), (Creator/YoothaJoyce), who seem to get into regular shouting matches. Nan makes fun of everything about Guy, from his collections to his taste in marmalade, and doesn't mind insulting him in front of guests.
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* MorningRoutine: The movie opens with Steve and his friends being woken up by their organ alarm clock, getting ready for the day in their flat, and exercising in a nearby playground.

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* MorningRoutine: The movie opens with Steve and his friends being woken up awoken by their organ alarm clock, getting ready for the day in their flat, and exercising in a nearby playground.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Steve and Dinah stay with wealthy couple Guy (Robin Bailey) and Nan (Yootha Joyce), who seem to get in regular shouting matches. Nan makes fun of everything about Guy, from his collections to his taste in marmalade, and doesn't mind insulting him in front of guests.

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* AwfulWeddedLife: Steve and Dinah stay with wealthy couple Guy (Robin Bailey) and Nan (Yootha Joyce), who seem to get in into regular shouting matches. Nan makes fun of everything about Guy, from his collections to his taste in marmalade, and doesn't mind insulting him in front of guests.
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* AbandonedArea: While traveling along a country road, Steve and Dinah stop by a caved-in building, which is the temporary home of a group of hippies. They all have to flee a few minutes later, because the building turns out to be on government territory, and the area is being used for a military exercise.

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* AbandonedArea: While traveling along a country road, Steve and Dinah stop by at a caved-in building, which is the temporary home of a group of hippies. They all have to flee a few minutes later, because the building turns out to be on government territory, and the area is being used for a military exercise.
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Steve (Dave Clark) and his roommates Denis, Mike, Rick, and Lenny work as stuntmen in London. While filming a commercial for a Meat for Go campaign, Steve absconds on a whim with model Dinah (Barbara Ferris), and the two travel towards Burgh Island, which Dinah is thinking about buying.

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Steve (Dave Clark) and his roommates Denis, Mike, Rick, (Denis Payton, Mike Smith, Rick Huxley, and Lenny Davidson) work as stuntmen in London. While filming a commercial for a Meat for Go campaign, meat, Steve absconds on a whim with model Dinah (Barbara Ferris), and the two travel towards Burgh Island, which Dinah is thinking about buying.
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''Catch Us If You Can'' is a 1965 British musical dramedy film starring the [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]] group Music/TheDaveClarkFive, written by Peter Nichols and directed by Creator/JohnBoorman.

Steve (Dave Clark) and his roommates Denis, Mike, Rick, and Lenny work as stuntmen in London. While filming a commercial for a Meat for Go campaign, Steve absconds on a whim with model Dinah (Barbara Ferris). The two travel towards Burgh Island, which Dinah is thinking about buying.

Boorman's feature directorial debut. Unrelated to ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', despite that movie also being set in TheSixties.

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''Catch Us If You Can'' is a 1965 British musical dramedy film starring the [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]] group Music/TheDaveClarkFive, written by Peter Nichols and directed by Creator/JohnBoorman.

Creator/JohnBoorman as his feature debut.

Steve (Dave Clark) and his roommates Denis, Mike, Rick, and Lenny work as stuntmen in London. While filming a commercial for a Meat for Go campaign, Steve absconds on a whim with model Dinah (Barbara Ferris). The Ferris), and the two travel towards Burgh Island, which Dinah is thinking about buying.

Boorman's feature directorial debut. Unrelated to ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', despite that movie also being set in TheSixties.
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* MarketBasedTitle: It was released in the US as ''Having a Wild Weekend''.

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* MarketBasedTitle: It was released in the US United States as ''Having a Wild Weekend''.

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''Catch Us If You Can'' (released in America as ''Having a Wild Weekend'') is a 1965 British musical comedy film starring [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]] group Music/TheDaveClarkFive, written by Peter Nichols and directed by Creator/JohnBoorman.

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''Catch Us If You Can'' (released in America as ''Having a Wild Weekend'') is a 1965 British musical comedy dramedy film starring the [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]] group Music/TheDaveClarkFive, written by Peter Nichols and directed by Creator/JohnBoorman.



Unrelated to ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', despite that movie also being set in TheSixties.

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Boorman's feature directorial debut. Unrelated to ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', despite that movie also being set in TheSixties.


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* MarketBasedTitle: It was released in the US as ''Having a Wild Weekend''.
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Unrelated to ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', despite that movie also being set in TheSixties.

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* NonActorVehicle: One of many such films made in the '60s in the wake of ''Film/AHardDaysNight''.



* TitledAfterTheSong: "Catch Us If You Can" and "Having a Wild Weekend" are both Dave Clark 5 songs that are featured in the movie.

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* TitledAfterTheSong: "Catch Us If You Can" and "Having a Wild Weekend" are both Dave Clark 5 Five songs that are featured in the movie.
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''Catch Us If You Can'', released in America as ''Having a Wild Weekend'', is a movie starring the Music/DaveClark5, written by Peter Nichols and directed by Creator/JohnBoorman.

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''Catch Us If You Can'', released Can'' (released in America as ''Having a Wild Weekend'', Weekend'') is a movie 1965 British musical comedy film starring the Music/DaveClark5, [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]] group Music/TheDaveClarkFive, written by Peter Nichols and directed by Creator/JohnBoorman.






* TheVoiceless: Lenny Davidson doesn't have a single line. Occasionally he'll try to speak, but someone else will cut him off. At a costume party, he dresses as Harpo Marx.

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* TheVoiceless: Lenny Davidson doesn't have a single line. Occasionally he'll try to speak, but someone else will cut him off. At a costume party, he dresses as [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Harpo Marx.Marx]].
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Steve and Dinah stay with wealthy couple Guy (Robin Bailey) and Nan (Yootha Joyce), who seem to get in regular shouting matches. Nan makes fun of everything about Guy, from his collections to his taste in marmalade, and doesn't mind insulting him in front of guests.
* IdleRich: When Dinah asks Guy what he does, he answers, "Do? We don't do anything." He devotes his free time to collecting old things, like phonograph cylinders, posters, and especially family photographs.

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* AbandonedArea: While traveling along a country road, Steve and Dinah stop by a caved-in building, which is home to a group of hippies. They all have to flee a few minutes later, because the building turns out to be on government territory, and the area is being used for a military exercise.

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* AbandonedArea: While traveling along a country road, Steve and Dinah stop by a caved-in building, which is the temporary home to of a group of hippies. They all have to flee a few minutes later, because the building turns out to be on government territory, and the area is being used for a military exercise.


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* RuleOfPool: The characters attend a party at the Roman Baths. Once the party spills out into the actual bath area, people almost immediately start jumping and falling into the pool.
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* TheVoiceless: Lenny Davidson doesn't have a single line. Occasionally he'll try to speak, but someone else will cut him off. At a costume party, he dresses as Harpo Marx.
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* AbandonedArea: While traveling along a country road, Steve and Dinah stop by a caved-in building, which is home to a group of hippies. They all have to flee a few minutes later, because the building turns out to be on government territory, and the area is being used for a military exercise.


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* PublicityStunt: Ad executive Leon Zissell (David de Keyser) takes advantage of Dinah's disappearance by telling everyone that Steve has kidnapped her in order to drum up even more publicity for meat.
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''Catch Us If You Can'', released in America as ''Having a Wild Weekend'', is a movie starring the Music/DaveClark5, written by Peter Nichols and directed by Creator/JohnBoorman.

Steve (Dave Clark) and his roommates Denis, Mike, Rick, and Lenny work as stuntmen in London. While filming a commercial for a Meat for Go campaign, Steve absconds on a whim with model Dinah (Barbara Ferris). The two travel towards Burgh Island, which Dinah is thinking about buying.
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!!''Catch Us If You Can'' contains examples of:
* MorningRoutine: The movie opens with Steve and his friends being woken up by their organ alarm clock, getting ready for the day in their flat, and exercising in a nearby playground.
* MustacheVandalism: A montage early in the movie shows the many Meat for Go ads around London. On one of them, someone has drawn glasses and a beard, which a worker has to clean off. After Steve and Dinah take off, Dinah draws glasses, a mustache, and bad teeth on her own poster.
* TitledAfterTheSong: "Catch Us If You Can" and "Having a Wild Weekend" are both Dave Clark 5 songs that are featured in the movie.
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