Expresso Bongo
- 1959
- Tous publics
- 1h 51min
NOTE IMDb
6,2/10
597
MA NOTE
Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueJohnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house, but their exploitative deal leads to a bad relationship.Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house, but their exploitative deal leads to a bad relationship.Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house, but their exploitative deal leads to a bad relationship.
- Nomination aux 2 BAFTA Awards
- 2 nominations au total
Eric Pohlmann
- Leon
- (as Eric Pohlman)
Paula Barry
- Intime Girl - Dancer
- (non crédité)
Jack 'Kid' Berg
- Slam Dance Crowd
- (non crédité)
Eddie Boyce
- Autograph Seeker
- (non crédité)
Avis Bunnage
- Mrs. Rudge
- (non crédité)
Rita Burke
- Intime Girl - Dancer
- (non crédité)
Susan Burnet
- Edna Rudge
- (non crédité)
Esma Cannon
- Night Club Cleaner
- (non crédité)
Patrick Cargill
- A Psychiatrist
- (non crédité)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe credit titles for writer, producer and director are written on sandwich boards carried by writer Wolf Mankowitz as he walks around Soho.
- Citations
Johnny Jackson: But you can be frank with me, mister Mayer ! What's your feeling about the boy?
Mayer: Nausea!
- Crédits fousOpening credits are shown on a neon sign outside a theatre, a jukebox, a pinball machine, a barrel organ, a restaurant menu, a pin-board, ending with a sandwich-board man.
- Versions alternativesReissued in 1962 at 106 minutes. This shorter version omitted a number of songs, including "Nausea." About 2 minutes of alternate scenes were used to fill in some of the cut musical scenes.
- ConnexionsFeatured in The Love Goddesses (1965)
- Bandes originalesNausea
(uncredited)
Music by David Heneker (as David Henneker) and Monty Norman
Lyrics by Julian More and Wolf Mankowitz
From original stage show
Commentaire à la une
Watching any film 50 years after you last saw it is, at any time, a mildly unnerving experience. A film that boasts the dubious title 'Expresso Bongo' and features a not-greatly post-pubescent Cliff Richard should have provided a strong warning that turning back the clock is not always a good idea but, actually, this was a great pleasure. Based on a successful stage musical and set in the heart of the Soho music industry of the late 1950s as it comes to terms with rock and roll , 'Expresso Bongo' retains a salty edge even now. Laurence Harvey plays a chancer who happens to come across a young rocker (Cliff Richard) who he seeks to exploit shamelessly but who then proves more than a match for him. With a sharp, pungent and funny script (by 50s star writer Wolf Mankowitz) and plenty of night location shooting in Soho, the film fizzes along for the most part, resembling 'Sweet Smell of Success', but with songs and a slightly softer edge. The version on this DVD has been shorn of its extrinsic musical numbers (including one sung by old-style musical promoter Maier Tzelniker that I remember well, starting 'When I compare these little bleeders to the chorus from Aida
.nausea!') but still has time for the wonderfully cynical 'Shrine on the Second Floor', as Cliff is propelled into religiosity to further his career. Harvey's weaselly good looks are just right and Sylvia Sims is very sexy as his long-suffering stripper girlfriend. Even Cliff acquits himself well, with just the right amount of ambivalence as to his complicity (including being asked, not for the last time, why he has no girlfriend). In a film where everyone is either on the make or being exploited, sometimes at the same time, there is at least one poignant real-life parallel. The distinguished stage actress Hermione Baddelley here plays a veteran street tart. She has a couple of affectionate scenes with Harvey, with whom, despite their age difference, she had a relationship in the early 1950s just as his career was getting under way. Now, Harvey was on a roll and would shortly go to Hollywood on the strength of his next film, 'Man at the Top'.
- helenandgraham
- 6 janv. 2015
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Site officiel
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- 女体入門
- Lieux de tournage
- Société de production
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- Durée1 heure 51 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1
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