Excellent, Without a doubt!!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Some things up front. First, the much maligned Arch Hall Jr. had a better singing voice then say, Frankie Avalon, and was a better Actor. Second, these types of Ultra-Low-Budget, one could almost say, No-Budget Movies can in no way be compared to anything remotely resembling a typical Hollywood Movie. This one had a $30,000 price tag. We are in the realm of Ed Wood, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and ilk. here.That being said, this is a highly entertaining piece of Schlock that has energy to burn and a demented visual Style that is Filmmaking at its most necessarily inventive. It pulls together many "Artistic" touches that have a distinctive "European" feel. This decidedly Drive-In, Grindhouse Film is a visual pot luck of hand-held Camera-work and Off-Broadway Stage Work. It is a Grandiose effort with unemployable, non Union, hangers around that probably participated for the fun of it, or to at least be doing "something"This is an infamous Movie for mainly two reasons. The aforementioned, strangely "attractive", top-heavy, Arch Hall Jr., whose legacy has endured because of an innocent appeal and a completely weird Personality, and Director Ray Dennis Steckler who persevered for Decades, churning out one mind-boggling Movie after another that were always God-Awful. This one his first, may be his best.

yes, I only rated it a two, but I thought I'd want to rate it negative 5. I had no idea Ray Dennis Steckler had unpretentious competence in him as a director, but he does exhibit just that in this clichéd but not terribly offensive teen drive-in flick. Some okay supporting performances. The music and dancing aren't good, but they're miles beyond the junk on stage in Incredibly Strange...Zombies.I hate to be cruel, but the girl love interest is one of the ugliest women I've seen a love-interest role. In real life, she may have been a beauty and a delightful human being, but the camera didn't like her. I suspect Arch would have done much better in real life.

"Wild Guitar" stars Arch Hall, Jr., a kind-of rockabilly Cabbage Patch Kid come to life, as a singer who hits Hollywood with nothing but a suitcase and a guitar. He stops off at a diner to stare longingly at the food he cannot afford and is offered a hamburger sandwich and some french-fried potatoes by a beautiful young girl who feels sorry for him. She agrees to be his de facto girlfriend until he can find someone better, and even offers him a chance to sing on a local television show, where he is discovered and offered a contract that will make him rich and famous for the rest of his life. All this on his very first day in Hollywood!Okay, so at this point we can see that reality is not a priority here, but "Wild Guitar" is a fun teen movie with some decent moments. If you're like me you know Arch Hall from the MST3K classic "Eegah!" in which Arch spent most of the film cruising around the desert in his neato dune buggy yelling, "ROXIE!" You may also know that his father Arch Hall, Sr. (whose stage name is William Watters) was the producer and co-star of "Eegah!," and "Wild Guitar," and the mastermind behind the low-budget film factory known as Fairway Studios. Senior- who once had a promising acting career before he left Hollywood to tend the family business- had an idea about turning Arch into a teen idol with a record contract and a series of B-movies like this. It didn't quite work out but the films they made are good silly fun, like this one.Nancy Czar as Vicki is unbelievably sweet and beautiful. Watch how expressive her eyebrows and jaw are in the opening diner scene; this is a face that the camera just loves. I've done some research but I cannot figure out why she wasn't more famous or in more movies. (NOTE: If you've seen "Eegah" you may have wondered why Arch sings a song called "Vicki" to his leading lady in spite of the fact that she's named Roxie. The song appeared in "Wild Guitar" first and was evidently recycled to try to sell a few more records!) There's also a romantic ice-skating sequence which shows off Nancy Czar's considerable skill and astounding flexibility. Afterwards Arch and Nancy walk through the late-night Hollywood streets, and although this is by no means Artistic Cinema, the scene does capture the innocence and joy of young love.Arch is no DeNiro himself, but he's fun and enjoyable enough as the naive singer snagged in the dirty world of the music industry, and this film might have been a lost drive-in classic if it weren't for one thing: the kidnapping sequence. About two-thirds in the movie takes a detour from which it never recovers when three "funny" goons kidnap Arch Hall and hold him for ransom. These Bowery Boy rejects employ every bad gag in the book as they bumble their way badly through routines even The Stooges couldn't save. "Dis guy is a wise guy, boss- you want I should give 'em a knuckle sammich?!?" And it's not just awful... it's eternal. The extended sequence keeps piling on lame joke after lame joke until you might actually consider jamming ballpoint pens into your ears to end the pain.Sadly, the movie never recovers from these lowbrow hijinks, and what could have been a sweet teenage timepiece just becomes a waste of time. A shame.GRADE: C-

Young, naive Bud Eagle (Arch Hall Jr.) travels to Hollywood to find fame and fortune. He meets sweet, innocent Vicki (Nancy Czar) who immediately gets him on a TV show. He becomes a rock star overnight and unscrupulous agent William Walters (Arch Hall Snr.) signs him up. BUT he is using him, giving him no money. making him drop Vicki and Eagle discovers that life in lonely at the top. You can probably figure the story out from there.Terrible by the numbers story offers no surprises. The dialogue is awful, the acting dreadful and the direction is just pathetic. Hall's singing isn't bad, but the songs themselves are mediocre and the way the singing parts are shot are hysterically funny. Plot holes galore in this one--at one point Vicki invites Bud to a skating rink where there's no one else but them---yet a spotlight follows her along when she's skating! A sequence with three idiots (who make the Three Stooges look restrained) "kidnapping" Bud is SO bad my jaw dropped! This movie is so badly made on EVERY level it's absolutely fascinating to watch. I actually got impressed watching it--it fails so completely on every level! The ending especially had me in hysterics. Not a good film by any means but worth watching. A camp classic!