Expresso Bongo 1959 DVD £13 Expresso Bongo is a 1959 film satire of the music industry directed by Val Guest, shot in an uncredited Dyaliscope and starring Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, and Yolande Donlan.. It is adapted from the stage musical of the same name, which was first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London, on 23 April 1958. In the film, Cliff Richard and the Shadows made their second screen appearance in a film released during 1959, the first being the much darker Serio