Bronco Bullfrog Blu-ray
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Posted December 8, 2025 06:27 AM by Webmaster
New label Seventy-Seven will release on Blu-ray Barney Platts-Mills' Bronco Bullfrog (1971), starring Del Walker, Sam Shepherd, Roy Haywood, Freda Shepherd, and Anne Gooding. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on January 27.
Description: The debut film by Barney Platts-Mills—"one 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 London's East End in 1969, cast with Doc Marten–wearing "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 Cockney—with subtitles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: The debut film by Barney Platts-Mills—"one 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 London's East End in 1969, cast with Doc Marten–wearing "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 Cockney—with subtitles.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW Newly recorded commentary by Director of Photography Adam Barker-Mill
- Everybody's An Actor, Shakespeare Said (1968, B. Platts-Mills) - a 30-minute documentary charts legendary theater director Joan Littlewood's teen acting workshops with future Bronco Bullfrog cast members
- Joan Littlewood Interview (1968)
- In The Company of Joan (2016, W. Richardson) A feature-length documentary about the life and work of Joan Littlewood
- Barney Platts-Mills and actor Roy Haywood in Conversation Never-before-seen Q&A moderated by critic Jason Solomons
- Theatrical re-release trailer & teaser
- Cinema60 podcast episode on Bronco Bullfrog hosted by Bart D'Alauro and Jenna Ipcar
- Booklet with two essays including a new piece by critic Christina Newland
- Newly edited English subtitles
- REGION-A "LOCKED"
