Mankowitz himself appears in the film's opening credit sequence, wearing a sandwich board that bears his writer credit. Its director Val Guest suggested to Harvey that it might be a good idea to model his film role of Johnny Jackson on Mankowitz's own character, and so Harvey arranged a couple of lunches with the unsuspecting writer to study him at close hand, resulting in the character on film sounding something like Mankowitz. In 1958 he wrote the book for the West End musical Expresso Bongo which was adapted into a film starring Cliff Richard and Laurence Harvey the following year. This was adapted as a film by the director Carol Reed in 1955 Mankowitz himself wrote the screenplay. His background provided Mankowitz with the material for his most successful book A Kid for Two Farthings (1953).

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Expresso Bongo by Wolf Mankowitz