The Golden Disc

The Golden Disc (also known as The In-Between Age) is a 1958 British pop musical film directed by Don Sharp, starring Terry Dene and Mary Steele.

Joan Farmer, with the help of her friend Harry Blair, persuades her aunt to turn her worn-out cafe into a trendy espresso bar for teenagers.

[2] It was one of several British pop films set around coffee bars, others including The Tommy Steele Story, Serious Charge, Beat Girl and Expresso Bongo.

[2] In a 1958 review The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Rock'n'roll music 1s loud and exnibitionist; its exponents usually noisy, vital, eccentric, often larger than life.

There are some clever, talented touches and twenty-four carat performances come from Patterson and Mary Steele – better than The Golden Disc really deserves.

In the very worst "it's trad, dad" manner, it shows how Lee Patterson and Mary Steele jazz up her aunt's coffee shop with a record booth and the singing talents of odd-jobman Terry Dene.