First of all, a correction: I promised Rebel Highway IV would be coming your way soon and it will not. For all my efforts and MacMahonian beloved website managers and resources, it proved unviable to find a copy, online or otherwise, of either instalments IV or V. So in the meantime on to VI.
Shake, Rattle and Rock was the 7th feature film and 1st TV film directed by long-time Joe Dante associate and occasional comedy and musical director Allan Arkush, arguably the most obscure director of the Rebel Highway series.
In Shake, Rattle and Rock the emancipating young woman is Susanne (Renée Zelwegger, showing early promise) who wants to be a rock 'n' roll musician to the horror of her mother, as it causes Susanne to associate with coloured people and engage in a music form that excites the libido and in dances that insinuate foreplay.
Shake, Rattle and Rock is a sort of sanitised version of Hairspray (John Waters, 1988, seminally reviewed in these pages last March 17) with upgraded production values and a lazily clichéd rock 'n' roll soundtrack, nonetheless mildly effective.
Rebel Highway VII will be coming your way soon.