| 词条 | Expresso Bongo (film) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Expresso Bongo | image_size = | image = Expresso Bongo FilmPoster.jpeg | caption = | director = Val Guest | producer = Jon Penington | writer = Wolf Mankowitz Julian More (play) | narrator = | starring = Laurence Harvey Cliff Richard Sylvia Sims Yolande Donlan Eric Pohlmann Hermione Baddeley Gilbert Harding | music = Robert Farnon | cinematography = John Wilcox | editing = Bill Lenny | distributor = British Lion Films | released = 1959 | runtime = 111 min. | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = }} Expresso Bongo is a 1959 film satire of the music industry directed by Val Guest, shot in an uncredited Dyaliscope and starring Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, and Yolande Donlan.. It is adapted from the stage musical of the same name, which was first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London, on 23 April 1958. In the film, Cliff Richard and the Shadows made their second screen appearance in a film released during 1959, the first being the much darker Serious Charge. The later film was made at Shepperton Studios, near London, with certain scenes shot on location in London's Soho district. PlotLaurence Harvey plays sleazy hustler Johnny Jackson, who is always on the lookout for fresh talent to exploit, while managing his hectic life with his stripper girlfriend, Maise. Maise is looking to find a better life in singing. Jackson discovers a teenage singer named Bert Rudge, played by Cliff Richard, in an espresso coffee shop and sets about sending him along the rocky road to fame. He changes his name to Bongo Herbert and soon gets him a record deal and a relationship with an ageing American singing sensation Dixie (Yolande Donlan). However, Bongo soon realises that his 50/50 contract with Johnny is not as great as he thought it was, and breaks from Johnny's contract with help from Dixie as Bongo is a minor. Director Val Guest engaged Kenneth MacMillan to choreograph the strip-club dancers who appear in the film. Struggling at Shepperton Studios to get them to dance and sing to playback at the same time, MacMillan complained, "It's the simplest routine. They may have looks, legs and tits, but they have no co-ordination."{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} At first, Laurence Harvey was undecided on the kind of accent he would give his character, so Guest told him he was 'part Soho, part Jewish, and part middle-class' and that it might be an idea to model him on the writer Wolf Mankowitz. Harvey arranged a couple of lunches with the unsuspecting Mankowitz to study the writer at close hand, so the character Johnny Jackson in the film sounds something like the writer of the film.[1] Harvey's character sports a melange of accents including his own South African. Wolf Mankowitz appears in the film's opening credit sequence, wearing a sandwich-board bearing his writer credit. Cast
Soundtrack albumThe music for the 1959 film was produced by Norrie Paramor. With the exception of one song, it was entirely different from the music that was used in the 1958 musical. The music and the plot were rewritten to downplay the satire and showcase Richard and his band. In the best ironic traditions of Tin Pan Alley, a satire became a tribute. Only The Shrine on the Second Floor — a song that was intended to drive a sharpened stake into the heart of all sentimental ballads about mother – made it into the movie, but Richard sang it straight.
Soundtrack EP{{Infobox album| name = Expresso Bongo | type = ep | artist = Cliff Richard | cover = Expresso_Bongo_Cliff_Richard_EP.jpg | alt = | released = January 1960 | recorded = Sep-Dec 1959, EMI Studios, London | venue = | studio = | genre = Rock and roll | length = | label = Columbia | producer = Norrie Paramor | chronology = Cliff Richard | prev_title = Cliff No. 2 | prev_year = 1959 | next_title = Cliff Sings No. 1 | next_year = 1960 }} In January 1960, an EP made up of all the Cliff Richard and the Shadows' tracks from the album was released. On the tenth of March, Record Retailer published the first UK EP Chart with Expresso Bongo topping the chart.[2] Prior to this, the EP had also made the UK Singles Chart reaching number 14.[3]
Reception{{Expand section|more details|date=March 2016}}According to Val Guest the film made "a lot of money and got us a lot of awards".[4] References1. ^Val Guest, So You Want to Be in Pictures, p. 135 2. ^{{cite book|author=Neil Cossar|title=This Day In Music: An Every Day Record of Musical Feats and Facts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RkPqzlhF3QkC&pg=PT323|date=1 June 2010|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0-85712-362-6|pages=323}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Expresso Bongo (EP) - Official Singles Chart|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/expresso%20bongo%20(ep)/|website=www.officialcharts.com|accessdate=8 July 2016}} 4. ^Tom Weaver, "Val Guest", Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews McFarland, 2003 p 114 External links
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