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Title: Botched
Review: Make no mistake, I love EXPRESSO BONGO, and the film itself would normally merit five stars; for style and sensibility, it was ahead of the curve for 1959. Watching this version of it, however, gives the false impression that this is just another teen idol film, due primarily to the several excised musical interludes. Of course, my own discovery of the missing Harvey numbers was upsetting, but by far the biggest letdown was the absence of Meier Tzelniker's peculiar performance of a charming number called "Nausea," the strangest moment in the film and biggest disappointment of this edition. Kino is generally one of the few labels I would buy from sight unseen, but this gives me cause for concern...
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