Expresso Bongo
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!
Rating: 5.3 out of 10TMDB(19 votes)
Overview
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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Based on
Based on Expresso Bongo
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Setting
Set in London
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Music
Music by Monty Norman
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Cinematography
Cinematography by John Laurence Wilcox
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Wolf MankowitzWriter, Screenplay
- Julian MoreWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 1, 1959
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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In the United States
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Cast
Laurence HarveyJohnny Jackson
Sylvia SymsMaisie King
Yolande DonlanDixie Collins
Cliff RichardBert Rudge / Bongo Herbert
Meier TzelnikerMayer
Ambrosine PhillpottsLady Rosemary- Gilbert HardingSelf
Hermione BaddeleyPenelope
Eric PohlmannLeon
Reginald BeckwithRev. Tobias Craven
Wilfrid LawsonMr Rudge
Avis BunnageMrs Rudge- Susan BurnetEdna Rudge
Susan HampshireCynthia
Kenneth GriffithCharlie
Patrick CargillPsychiatrist
Lisa PeakeChinese Rose
Esma CannonNightclub Cleaner- Barry LoweBeast Burns
Davy KayeRacer
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