Expresso Bongo

Val Guest (director)
Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More (play)
Cornel Lucas and Lawrence Ridley (still photographers)
Wolf Mankowitz (screenwriter)
Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Sims, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard (starring)

London: British Lion Film Corporation / Conquest, 1959. Collection of 70 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1959 UK film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos of 2 stills, with distributor rubber-stamps. Photographer Lucas' rubber-stamp on the verso of 2 stills.

Laurence Harvey stars as Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent who discovers teenager Bert Rudge (Cliff Richard) singing in a coffee house. Jackson exploits the young singer, who only wants to play bongos, and their relationship turns sour. Generally considered a classic B-movie, so bad it's good.

A story set in New York, shot on location in London and Surrey, England.

8 x 10 inches, some slightly largerr. Slight faint foxing, with a tiny closed tear here and there, else Near Fine.


[Book #132969]