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Frank J. Avella Edge Media Network Expresso Bongo has much to recommend it. Firstly, the film has a clever script (by Wolf Mankowitz, based on Julian More's play) with hilarious, yet keen, moments ...
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18. Jan. 2023 · However impressive Cliff is in the part, it’s Harvey that dominates the film. Though Expresso Bongo is about the emerging counter culture and the rock’n’roll explosion, it’s very much seen and judged through the eyes of the grown-ups. Despite that, it offers an authentic glimpse into how youth culture was represented at the time.
EXPRESSO BONGO. Directed by. Val Guest. United Kingdom, 1959. Drama, Music . 111. Synopsis. Slick talent agent Johnny Jackson sets his sights on Bert Rudge, a skilled singer and bongo player he discovers in a seedy coffeehouse. Changing Rudge’s name to ...
Expresso Bongo (1960) 1960 United Kingdom Directed by Val Guest Produced by Val Guest Written by Wolf Mankowitz Featuring Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan Running time 111 minutes. Articles related to Expresso Bongo. Features. 40 fabulous Flip ...
Expresso Bongo also has many uncredited appearances by established character players, such as Wilfrid Lawson (as Bongo's drunken dad), who delivers a hilarious, scene-stealing performance. Writer Wolf Mankowitz even makes an appearance as a 'sandwich-board man' to proclaim 'the end is at hand' just before the film concludes. Roger Philip Mellor
22. Sept. 2020 · Set in London’s Soho, Expresso Bongo started life on the West End stage in 1958 with book by Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More, and a song score by More, Monty Norman and David Heneker. Only three stage numbers made it into Val Guest’s film – which features new songs by, among others, Robert Farnon and Norrie Paramor – but Mankowitz did the screenplay, and it’s first-rate.
28. Apr. 2016 · In fact, Expresso Bongo is a rather excellent film, and far removed from the cheesy teen flick that you might have expected. It’s a deeply cynical, is ultimately slightly sentimental look at a Soho long gone – a world of coffee bars, strip clubs, wheeler-dealers and hustlers out to make a quick buck as an impresario – in many cases, one ...
