Entertaining Mr Sloane (film)

Entertaining Mr Sloane
Original poster
Directed byDouglas Hickox
Written byClive Exton
Based onplay by Joe Orton
Produced byDouglas Kentish
StarringBeryl Reid
Harry Andrews
Peter McEnery
Alan Webb
CinematographyWolfgang Suschitzky
Edited byJohn Trumper,First Assistant Editor: Peter Lupson, Second Assistant Editor: Alec Cullen
Music byGeorgie Fame
Production
company
Canterbury Film Productions
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd.
Warner-Pathé (UK)
Release date
  • 1 April 1970 (1970-04-01) (UK)
[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£97,000[2]

Entertaining Mr Sloane is a 1970 British black comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox. The screenplay by Clive Exton is based on the 1964 play of the same title by Joe Orton. This was the second adaptation of the play, the first having been developed for British television and broadcast by ITV on 15 July 1968.[3]

In the film, a lonely woman invites a recent acquaintance to become her lodger and her lover. Her brother likes him as well, and the new arrival plays the siblings against each other. But the lodger is eventually blackmailed into becoming both their prisoner and their shared lover, in a ménage à trois.

  1. ^ Entertaining Mr Sloane
  2. ^ Moody, Paul (2018). EMI Films and the Limits of British Cinema. Palgrave MacMillan. p. 87.
  3. ^ ScreenOnline.org