Bronco Bullfrog

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Seventy-Seven is a boutique movie and music label, based in New York City and northwest Connecticut, dedicated to presenting restored vintage titles with unique cultural significance. Founded by Gabriele Caroti, Seventy-Seven delivers these long-unseen works to North American audiences both in cinemas and at home, marking their official, long-awaited debuts.

The debut film by Barney Platts-Millsone of the forgotten heroes of British cinema (Matthew Sweet, BBC Radio 4)Bronco Bullfrog is remarkable (Mollie Panter-Downes, The New Yorker), a breathtaking time capsule (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian), and a revelation (Kieron Corless, Sight & Sound).

Seventeen-year-old Del, with no money and nowhere to go, breaks into train cars with his cool, fresh-out-of-borstal (reform school) pal Bronco Bullfrog. Then one day he meets the lovely Irene, and after getting an earful from his dad (and her mum), the young lovers run away together but to where?

Shot in Londons East End in 1969, cast with Doc Martenwearing suedehead locals and set to a dynamic soundtrack by art-rock band Audience, Bronco Bullfrog has been compared to the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, but with a punk rock spirit. After a minuscule American release following its Edinburgh and Cannes premieres, this lost gem (Dave Calhoun, Time Out) returns as a cult landmark, in black and white and Cockneywith subtitles.

directed by: Barney Platts-Mills
starring: Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd, Roy Haywood
1969 / 87 min / 1.33:1 / English DTS-HD MA 2.0

Additional info:

• Region A Blu-ray
• Everybodys An Actor, Shakespeare Said (1968, B. Platts-Mills): A 30-minute documentary charts legendary theater director Joan Littlewoods teen acting workshops with future Bronco Bullfrog cast members