THE picture in the fan-mag showed this gangly kid in jeans and a sweat shirt, his face contorted, mouth wide open, beating with both hands on a bongo set round his shoulder, over it the headline BONGO ...

THE seedier side of the music business has provided rich pickings for film-makers down the years. From the fabulously downbeat Flame (1974) , which positioned the poptastic Slade at the very heart of ...

Elizabeth Ashley, known for her dynamic stage presence, was part of the cast of "Expresso Bongo" in the past, adding to her impressive list of Broadway credits that includes celebrated performances in ...

What sort of people are they growing up to be?” Although the stuffed-shirt narrator cannot bring himself to say the word “teenager” of the film’s subjects, it’s a question asked in the 1954 Government ...

A fast-talking would-be pop impresario leads a pageant of sleazy characters hoping to cash in on fresh talent in the 1959 British film Expresso Bongo, now available in the U.S. for the first time. At ...

The British “new wave” finally revealed a sense of humor in this 1960 comedy of showbiz corruption. Laurence Harvey is a hilariously fast-talking con man who discovers, promotes, and exploits the hell ...

Soho, with its atmosphere of sleazy stripperies, gaudy coffee bars and frenetic teenagers, is the setting for this amusing satire on how a little talent can be boosted overnight as the result of a ...

Entertaining musical about a sleazy, opportunistic talent agent who discovers a bongo player. While the agent is busy trying to turn his new find into a teen idol, and in turn rescue his own flagging ...

Expresso Bongo is the slum to stardom story of a London Presley-in-the-rough, depicted with total amorality. Adapted from his own play by British novelist and playwright Wolf Mankowitz, the film ...