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Expresso Bongo is a 1959 British drama musical film directed by Val Guest, shot in uncredited black & white Dyaliscope and starring Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, and Yolande Donlan. [2] It is adapted from the stage musical of the same name, which was first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London, on 23 April 1958.
Expresso Bongo: Directed by Val Guest. With Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard. Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house, but their exploitative deal leads to a bad relationship.
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- Drama, Music
- Val Guest
- 1959-12-11
May 5, 2016 · Fortunately, the Val Guest-directed Expresso Bongo (1959) offers little of this. There is Cliff, and there are pensionable teenagers, but at its core this gem of a movie is a rapier-like...
The original trailer in high definition of Expresso Bongo directed by Val Guest. Starring Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan and Cliff Richard. Blu-ray (BFI Shop) :...
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The production starred Paul Scofield with Hy Hazell, Millicent Martin and James Kenney. Musical director was Burt Rhodes and director William Chappell. The subsequent 1959 film version was directed by Val Guest and starred Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, and Yolande Donlan.
- Val Guest
Director. Julian More. Writer. A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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But it's Laurence Harvey whose the real star here as Johnny Jackson, the live-wire Soho hustler with the gift of the gab, out to grab a piece of the pop music scene after discovering Richard's Bert Rudge and moulding him into teen sensation, Bongo Herbert.
