Espresso Bongo
Director Val Guest just died. It inspired us to watch Espresso Bongo once again. Anybody else agree with me this is an overlooked cult classic?
shareI agree ... I love this film.
shareYou just been watching it on BBC4 too?! I'd never seen it before, though I've been wanting to for some while. I was really impressed.
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The World Is Quiet Here
Yeah, just watched it ... but had stuff to do so missed bits. Caught some cracking dialogue though and Dixie taken her earrings off was as erotic as that kind of thing can get.
Fortunately I picked up the video recently in an Oxfam shop - haven't watched it yet so don't know if it's the domestic or export version.
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I also saw this again last night.I am on the side of those who think it one of the worst British films ever made!
The original stage version is my favourite British musical; a biting satire on the pop industry, and on the commercialised exploitation of youth culture. It was about a talentless yob propelled to fame by trickery and money.
One critic compared it to Brecht and Pal Joey (original version, of course, not the ruined Sinatra film)
The film could not have Cliff Richard in the part of a talentless yob so had to be on the theme of "local boy makes good".
The songs "Voice in the Wildernes" and "Shrine on the Second Floor", intended to show just how bad commercialised pop can be, were featured, but the bitter "Nausea", the sinister "Nothing is for Nothing" and the sad "Time" were cut.These songs were the keys to the original story.Does any video version have these i n f u l l ? There was an LP by the original cast but I don't know whether it was ever issued as a CD or whether it is still obtainable anywhere.
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