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Showbiz in Soho is artificial, gaudy and vulgar, but Laurence Harvey’s slick promoter-con man thinks he can cheat at the pop music game. Cliff Richard is his new discovery, a teen crooner who digs the bongo drums. Wolf Mankowitz’s portrait of talent, glitz, and double-dealing in music and TV showbiz also stars Sylvia Syms as a Soho stripper and Yolande Donlan as a singing star trying to make a comeback. The disc contains director Val Guest’s uncut original version.

Expresso Bongo

Blu-ray

Cohen / Kino Lorber

1959 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 111 106 min. / Street Date January 18, 2022 / Available from Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard, Meier Tzelniker, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Eric Pohlmann, Gilbert Harding, Hermione Baddeley, Reginald Beckwith, Avis Bunnage, Sally Geeson, Kenneth Griffith, Burt Kwouk, Wilfrid Lawson, Patricia Lewis, Barry Lowe, Martin Miller, Susan Hampshire, Peter Myers, Lisa Peake, The Shadows.

Cinematography: John Wilcox

Art Director:...

Scream favorites Vincent Price and Christopher Lee become tangled in an African curse, grave robbing, a premature burial and a clutch of throat-slashings -- yet the two stars have no real scenes together. Steve Haberman's well-researched and insightful commentary tells the story of Gordon Hessler's first production for the English arm of American-International Pictures, a movie planned to be directed by the mysterious Michael Reeves. The Oblong Box Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1969 / Color /1:85 widescreen / 96 min. / Street Date October 20, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Uta Levka, Sally Geeson, Alister Williamson, Peter Arne. Cinematography John Coquillon Original Music Harry Robertson Written by Lawrence Huntington, Christopher Wicking Produced by Gordon Hessler, Louis M. Heyward Directed by Gordon Hessler  

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

I've been doing my best to warm up to the filmic output of producer-director Gordon Hessler. I agree that Hessler's three major A.

Did you know that Christopher Lee and Vincent Price share the same birthday? Both legendary horror actors were born on May 27th and Kino Lorber celebrated by announcing an October release for 1969's The Oblong Box on Blu-ray & DVD. 

Produced and Directed by Gordon Hessler, the Edgar Allan Poe adaptation stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies and Sally Geeson. Kino did not give a specific release date, but mentioned that it will be available this October on Blu-ray & DVD and will feature a brand new HD master.

More details will be made available between now and then, so we'll be sure to keep you updated on a final release date and bonus features. In the meantime, here's a look at the original trailer:

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ITV3 has announced that it will celebrate the Carry On films with a new documentary series.

The channel will air three-part documentary Carry On Forever across Easter Bank Holiday weekend, with some of the best-loved Carry On films also being aired back to back.

Martin Clunes will narrate the documentary, which features interviews with stars Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims and Barbara Windsor.

Carry On Forever will also feature never-before-seen footage from behind the scenes of the movies. The cast will reunite as well in some of the film series's most iconic locations.

Amanda Barrie, Liz Fraser, Bernard Cribbins, Juliet Mills, Sally Geeson, June Whitfield, Shirley Eaton, Fenella Fielding and Jim Dale will also feature in the three-part series.

Mark Robinson, executive producer at Shiver, said: "Carry On is the most successful and best-loved brand in British movie comedy history, influencing generations of comedians.

"Stars like Sid James,...

ITV3 has announced that it will celebrate the Carry On films with a new documentary series.

The channel will air three-part documentary Carry On Forever across Easter Bank Holiday weekend, with some of the best-loved Carry On films also being aired back to back.

Martin Clunes will narrate the documentary, which features interviews with stars Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims and Barbara Windsor.

Carry On Forever will also feature never-before-seen footage from behind the scenes of the movies. The cast will reunite as well in some of the film series's most iconic locations.

Amanda Barrie, Liz Fraser, Bernard Cribbins, Juliet Mills, Sally Geeson, June Whitfield, Shirley Eaton, Fenella Fielding and Jim Dale will also feature in the three-part series.

Mark Robinson, executive producer at Shiver, said: "Carry On is the most successful and best-loved brand in British movie comedy history, influencing generations of comedians.

"Stars like Sid James,...

Knockabout clown in the music hall tradition who found enormous success in the cinema

Engulfed by helpless, gurgling mirth, Norman Wisdom would subside to the ground as if suddenly rendered boneless: it needed someone only to look at him to make him fall down. Often, the person looking at him – and sternly, at that – was Jerry Desmonde, doyen of variety straight men, who represented the figure of authority in many of Wisdom's hugely successful film farces of the 1950s and 1960s.

Wisdom, who has died aged 95, was almost the last in a great tradition of knockabout, slapstick clowns, a performer who relied less on words than on an acrobatic physical dexterity to gain his laughs. He was usually derided or ignored by the serious critics, but in his day he was adored by the public, and because of its nature his craft travelled well – he was immensely popular in many other countries,...