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Laurence Harvey is a brash hustler with a stream of snappy patter who takes bongo-playing crooner Cliff Richard out of the coffeehouse and into the big time in this sardonic spoof of the cynical star-making industry. Set amid the sleazy strip clubs and bustling nightlife of London's Soho district, Expresso Bongo is a fab bit of show-biz lampooning that loses its bite and its momentum when it leaves the lively streets for the claustrophobic offices and penthouse suites of the professional music industry sharks. It's still a marvelous time capsule of Britain's pre-rock pop-music scene, and the cast is terrific. Fast-talking Harvey is a dynamo as the small-time opportunist, with Sylvia Sims as his worldly stripper girlfriend growing weary of his schemes and Yolande Donlan as the savvy but aging American sex symbol plotting her comeback on the back of Harvey's naive new star. --Sean Axmaker
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Laurence Harvey was born Lauruska Mischa Skikne on October 1 st 1928 in Lithuania. As a child he moved to South Africa with his parents, and by the age of fourteen had enrolled into the South African Navy by lying about his age. However, the Navy discovered his lie and he was sent home. The following year, aged fifteen, he made his first stage appearance at the Johannesburg Reparatory Theatre.
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Set in the 1930s, drifter ex-farmer Texan Dove Linkhorn (Laurence Harvey) hitches to New Orleans to hook up with his lost love Hallie Gerard (Capucine), an aspiring artist. On the road he meets the fiesty underaged tramp Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) and later meets desperate sex-starved Mexican widow Teresina Vidaverri (Anne Baxter), who runs a cafe. Dove finds Hallie working as a high-class prostitute in a bordello in the French Quarter of New Orleans and that she's being kept by Jo Courtney (Barbara Stanwyck), the lesbian madame of the Doll's House, who no longer loves her amputee hubby Schmidt (Karl Swenson) and seeks comfort with Hallie. Still in love with Hallie, the dull Dove tries to sweet talk her into coming back to him and after being rejected at first finds success by his square approach. When Dove rejects the jealous Jo's proposal to leave town without Hallie, she hires thugs to work him over and they leave him unconscious; Kitty rescues him and brings him to Teresina's cafe. When Hallie finds out, she's followed to the cafe by Jo's bodyguard Oliver.
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Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) arrives in a new town with burning ambitions and a head full of dreams. He may be just a lowly town hall clerk, but with his charm and good looks, he's determined to "marry into money" and set himself up for life. The ground-breaking Room At The Top won two Oscars and was nominated for four more, including Best Picture and Best Director (Jack Clayton). At the time, critics hailed it as the first British film to take sex seriously and to portray the realities of the industrial north. It caused outrage and sensation in equal measure. Today it remains an undisputed classic work of British Cinema and essential viewing.
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Laurence Harvey and his platoon have been kidnapped by Russians in the middle of the Korean war. After having been brainwashed and hypnotized during three days, they are released. Harvey is decorated as a war hero and begins to work as a journalist. His mother's second husband, Senator John Iselin, is campaigning in order to obtain the republican investigation. Meanwhile, Frank Sinatra and other members of the platoon have recurrent dreams about their captivity period. One understands soon that Harvey is unconsciously manipulated by the Russian secret services who can hypnotize him whenever it's necessary in order to make him do what he's meant to do.
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In this chilling, cynical tale of communist subversion, Laurence Harvey plays a soldier who, upon returning from the Korean War, is honored for saving his platoon from enemy attack. The only trouble is, his commanding officer (Frank Sinatra) can't remember the deeds Harvey is supposed to have done, and he keeps having horrible nightmares in which he sees Harvey shoot the two men from their brigade who didn't make it home. It seems the communists brainwashed Harvey to be a trained assassin and programmed his comrades at arms to forget all about it. For whom is Harvey subconsciously working? And where do his McCarthyesque senator stepfather (James Gregory) and bitter, calculating mother (Angela Lansbury) fit in? It's up to Sinatra to convince the Pentagon that a sinister plot is afoot, and then to foil it.
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