Twist
Director in Person
Screening on Film
Screening on Film
Directed by Ron Mann.
Canada, 1992, 16mm, color, 78 min.
Canada, 1992, 16mm, color, 78 min.
The sensational cultural history of the Kennedy-era dance song, with on-camera interviews with the two musicians (Hank Ballard, Chubby Checker) who each claim to have recorded the authentic version, and talks with nice-guy Joey Dee whose "Peppermint Twist" was the signature song of the Peppermint Lounge, the Studio 54 of its day.
