"Laurence Harvey in an outstanding and different motion picture that takes you into a world of burlesque houses .. jazz dens ... and flesh-and-blood pe" 01 December 1959 Comedy, Music 111 mins
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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Laurence Harvey as Johnny Jackson
Sylvia Syms as Maisie King
Yolande Donlan as Dixie Collins
Cliff Richard as Bert Rudge / Bongo Herbert
Meier Tzelniker as Mayer
Ambrosine Phillpotts as Lady Rosemary
Gilbert Harding as Self
Hermione Baddeley as Penelope
Eric Pohlmann as Leon
Reginald Beckwith as Rev. Tobias Craven
Wilfrid Lawson as Mr Rudge
Avis Bunnage as Mrs Rudge
Susan Burnet as Edna Rudge
Susan Hampshire as Cynthia
Kenneth Griffith as Charlie
Patrick Cargill as Psychiatrist
Val Guest Director
Wolf Mankowitz Writer
John Wilcox Director of Photography
Bill Lenny Editor
Philip Shipway Assistant Director
Beatrice Dawson Costume Design
Ernest Gasser Makeup Artist
Barbara Ritchie Hairdresser
Anthony Masters Art Direction
Chris Greenham Sound Editor
Bert Ross Sound Mixer
Moray Grant Camera Operator
Robert Farnon Music Director
Kenneth MacMillan Choreographer
Julian More Writer
Wolf Mankowitz Screenplay
A Singing Idol Trailer
United Kingdom 01 December 1959
United States 12 April 1960
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Johnny Jackson (Laurence Harvey) a sleazy talent agent discovers teenager Bert Rudge (Cliff Richard) singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation ...
Johnny Jackson (Laurence Harvey) a sleazy talent agent discovers teenager Bert Rudge (Cliff Richard) singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation ...
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Johnny Jackson (Laurence Harvey) a sleazy talent agent discovers teenager Bert Rudge (Cliff Richard) singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation ...
Description.
A sequence from Expresso Bongo with Laurence Harvey Sylvia Syms Cliff Richard and the real life Gilbert Harding.
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This is a film comprised primarily from footage shot by the exploring team of Mr. and Mrs. William Phillips, nee Bill and Eve Phillips, a minor league version of the better-known Martin and Osa Johnson.
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