The Tommy Steele Story

The Tommy Steele Story
UK poster by Tom Chantrell
Directed byGerard Bryant
Written byNorman Hudis
Produced byHerbert Smith
executive
Stuart Levy
Nat Cohen
Peter Rogers
StarringTommy Steele
CinematographyPeter Hennessy
Edited byAnn Chegwidden
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated (UK)
AIP (US)
Release date
  • 30 May 1957 (1957-05-30) (UK)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£15,000

The Tommy Steele Story is a 1957 British film directed by Gerard Bryant and starring Tommy Steele, dramatising Steele's rise to fame as a teen idol. Along with Rock You Sinners, it was one of the first British films to feature rock and roll. In the US, where Steele was not well-known, the film was released under the title Rock Around the World. The film was announced in January 1957, three months after the release of Steele's first single "Rock with the Caveman".