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Bookmark this pageBronco Bullfrog (1970)
Director: Barney Platts-Mills
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From Time Out Film Guide
This healthy antidote to the 'classless' swinging '60s was made for £17,000, a major achievement in itself. What one least expects from the subject - the drift into aimless petty crime and misdemeanours of a trio of working class youths in London's East End - is the dominant mood of shyness that gives the film much of its effect. This can be attributed mainly to a cast of non-professionals unconcerned with showing off by 'acting', and to Platts -Mills' understated storyline and direction. Bronco Bullfrog's true subject is the mediocrity of British life, but at exactly the points where one begins to fear a customary excess of bathos, the film discovers its sense of humour. As such, its feelings are truer to its subject than later, more vaunted youth pictures like Quadrophenia.Author: CPe
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Director: Barney Platts-Mills
Producer: Andrew St John
Cast: Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd, Roy Haywood, Freda Shepherd full cast
Duration: 86 mins
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