THE picture in the fan-mag showed this gangly kid in jeans and a sweat shirt, his face contorted, mouth wide open, beating with both hands on a bongo set round his shoulder, over it the headline BONGO ...

From the golden era of teenage exploitation films comes two vintage Brit beat classics, “Expresso Bongo” and “Beat Girl,” available on the Kino on Video label. They’ve got rock royalty, “daddy-o” ...

Dig those crazy bongos! A bizarre, energetic little gem from 1959, director Val Guest’s “Expresso Bongo” means a lot to lovers of the cult musical but isn’t well known here in the colonies. Based on a ...

What sort of people are they growing up to be?” Although the stuffed-shirt narrator cannot bring himself to say the word “teenager” of the film’s subjects, it’s a question asked in the 1954 Government ...

Sleazy talent agent Johnny Jackson discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the ...