Expresso Bongo (1959)
Drama|Music
Pop manager Johnny Jackson ducks and dives in the 1950’s Soho of coffee bars, strip clubs and clip joints. With singer Bert Rudge he realises he is on to a winner. Renaming him Bongo Herbert and trickily launching his career on network television, he seems to have hit the jackpot. But Johnny is both greedy and naive, and having a successful artiste is new to him. He is soon out of his depth, with only his stripper girlfriend Masie King always there with support.
Director:Val Guest
Writers:Wolf Mankowitz (play)
Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay)
Genre:Drama | Music
Tagline:Laurence Harvey in an outstanding and different motion picture that takes you into a world of burlesque houses .. jazz dens … and flesh-and-blood people!
Plot:Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite…
Plot Keywords:Soho | Stripper | Bar | Agent | Satire
Awards:Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards.
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Cast
Laurence Harvey … Johnny Jackson
Sylvia Syms … Maisie King
Yolande Donlan … Dixie Collins
Cliff Richard … Bert Rudge / Bongo Herbert
Meier Tzelniker … Mayer
Ambrosine Phillpotts … Lady Rosemary
Eric Pohlmann … Leon
Gilbert Harding … Himself
Hermione Baddeley … Penelope
Reginald Beckwith … Reverend Tobias Craven
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