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Bronco Bullfrog From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bronco Bullfrog Directed by	Barney Platts-Mills Produced by	Andrew St. John Michael Syson Written by	Barney Platts-Mills Starring	Del Walker Anne Gooding Sam Shepherd Roy Haywood Music by	Tony Connor Keith Gemmel Cinematography	Adam Barker-Mill Editing by	Jonathan Gili Release date(s)	Category:Expression error: Unrecognised word "cannes". filmsMay Expression error: Unrecognised word "cannes"., 1971 Country	United Kingdom Language	English

Bronco Bullfrog is a 1969 British black-and-white film directed by Barney Platts-Mills. It was Platts-Mills' first full-length feature film.

Plot
The film follows the fortunes of a 17 year old, Del (Del Walker) and his group of friends. As the film opens four youths (Del, Roy, Chris and Geoff) are seen breaking into a cafe in Stratford, East London, but they only get away with about ninepence and some cake, and it is clear that they are hardly master criminals. Back at their hut on waste ground they mention Jo (Sam Shepherd), known as 'Bronco Bullfrog' (for reasons which are never explained), who has just got out of Borstal.

Once Del and Roy (Chris and Geoff are hardly seen again in the film) meet Jo in a caff, they link up with him to carry out a bigger robbery. Meanwhile Del meets Irene, a friend of a cousin of Chris', and they start a relationship, despite the disapproval of Irene's mother and Del's father. The remainder of the film follows Del and Irene as they attempt to escape their dead-end lives.

The film has been released in the BFI Flipside series dual format edition (DVD and Blu-ray), with other films (such as 1975's 'Seven Green Bottles', and Platts-Mills' 1968 film 'Everybody's an actor, Shakespeare said') as extras. A new HD version of the film opened the ninth East End Film Festival on 22 April 2010, prior to its re-release in summer 2010.[1] [edit]References

^ Sheila Johnston, The Arts Desk, 23 March 2010 [edit]External links

Director Barney Platts-Mills website Bronco Bullfrog at the Internet Movie Database Bronco Bullfrog at the British Film Institute's Screenonline Information about the film from Modculture.co.uk

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