A family move from London to Brighton to take over a run down guesthouse. The son, Dave Martin (David Hemmings), and his friends Ricky (Steve Marriot), Phil (John Pike) and his girlfriend, the Texan model Erica (Andrea Monet), reconvene their old beat group The Smart Alecs in order to enter a musical contest, 'Amateur Upstarts', with the view to drumming up publicity for the business.
The group write a song called Be My Guest and rehearse it at the Brighton Hippodrome for the contest's producer Milton H. Bass. However, Bass's stage manager Artie Clough (Tony Wager) and his glamorous girlfriend, the pop singer Wanda (Joyce Blair), recognise the song's hit potential and hatch a plan to rip off the boys by conning them into selling it for a song - no pun intended! - and give it to a popular local act, the dubiously named Slash Wildly and The Cutthroats. They plot to rig the contest so they win and sign the band before Milton H. Bass does and top the charts with Be My Guest claiming it as their original work...
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