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Expresso Bongo
1959
Enter the world of the Fabulous 50's - hip coffee bars, beat girls, shady Soho nightclubs - and the creation of a teen idol. Read more
| Starring | Cliff Richard, Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan |
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| Director | Val Guest |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
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Expresso Bongo
Enter the world of the Fabulous 50's - hip coffee bars, beat girls, shady Soho nightclubs - and the creation of a teen idol.
| Starring | Cliff Richard, Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Hermione Baddeley, Eric Pohlmann |
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| Director | Val Guest |
| Studio | CARLTON VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT LTD |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1959 To Rent: DVD: 15 Nov 2004 |
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Heavily vulgarized version of a stage skit on the Tommy Steele rock phenomenon, divested of most of its satirical barbs and only intermittently amusing.
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- Halliwell's Film Guide
- 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
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Soho in the 50s
Based on a successful stage musical by Wolf Mankowitch, Expresso Bongo is set amid the coffee bars and strip clubs of 50s Soho. Lawrence Harvey gives an ... read more »
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- Leon Collins
- London
- 21 Nov 2005 at 14:44
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Wooden Cliff
Was a quite entertaining film showing coffee bar culture in the 50's. Some good songs, some very wooden acting, but a good enjoyable black and white ... read more »
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- surreyfilmlover
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- Surrey
- 05 Aug 2010 at 19:25
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Nostalgic or what !!
I saw this with my mum when I was around 12/13 (it was certificated as an 'A' category !)
Watching it again after all these 47 or so years ... read more » - 830517
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- a customer
- Barnsley
- 12 Nov 2009 at 20:57
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Decaff Expresso
A rather grating, echoey DVD print.
Expresso Bongo starts promisingly with the Soho cafe culture captured well in an imaginatively conceived opening ... read more » - 601744
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- InspectorSands
- 209 reviews
- London
- 22 Jul 2008 at 12:32
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