![]() ![]() It is pretty obvious in this film that Cliff Richard has not acted very much. Rudge is naïve but happy to give up his fairground job and to adopt the stage name, Bongo Herbert. They agree on an eye-watering 50/50 split. Jackson talks Rudge into signing a contract so that he can become Rudge’s manager. It is here that Jackson discovers Bert Rudge (Sir Cliff Richard.) The latter is only a kid playing the bongos but he has a great talent and a certain “it” quality. He’s ignorant to the talents of his stripper girlfriend (Sylvia Syms.) One day the pair visit a local coffee shop. ![]() This is a man who is a rather fast-talking, silver-tongued and charismatic individual. The story is about a talent scout/impresario named Johnny Jackson (Lawrence Harvey) who is down on his luck. In 2016 the film is ultimately a rather dated and lightweight musical. Like the Elvis Presley movies of the time, it was really just a vehicle to promote and showcase Cliff Richard and The Shadows and to render them on the silver screen. A film with one of the silliest titles in history, “Expresso Bongo” was one such film. In a period when the term “teenager” was only recently coined, there were films that were designed and marketed towards the “youth” of the day. ![]()
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