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Film details
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Featuring
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1966
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Genres
Comedy Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“It remains Michael Caine’s most effective film in the way it defines a type who was specific and universal – and above all, human.”
Alexander Walker, Hollywood England, 1974
Writer Bill Naughton’s best-known creation, smooth-talking and seemingly cynical ladies’ man Alfie Elkins, originated in a radio play and then generated a theatrical hit, before providing charismatic leading man Michael Caine with one of the most famous roles in 1960s British cinema.
This cocksure working-class East Ender beds a range of women, intermittently addressing the audience with his self-centred world view. Yet while the film revels in its sexual openness and then-fashionable London settings, it also exposes the limited human insight that proves Alfie’s undoing. Viewed from a later perspective shaped by changed social values, Alfie’s language and attitudes are open to accusations of misogyny, though director Lewis Gilbert clearly depicts the negative consequences of his protagonist’s misadventures.
Other notable films that reflect aspects of the spirit of Swinging 60s include A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Darling (1965) and Blowup (1966).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Alfie Elkins
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Ruby
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Siddie
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Gilda
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Annie
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Carla
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Lily Clamacraft
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the doctor
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the abortionist
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Harry Clamacraft
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Humphrey
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Nat
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Frank Lofty
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[boy]
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[Perce, truck driver]
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[big man in pub]
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[.]
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[.]
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[.]
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Credits
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Unknown:
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©/Production Company
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[Location Manager]
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Production Secretary
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[Assistant Director (2nd)]
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[Assistant Director (3rd)]
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Continuity
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Casting Supervisor
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Screenplay by
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Based on the play by
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[2nd Camera Operator]
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[Focus Puller]
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Stills]
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[Assistant Editor (2nd)]
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[Assistant Editor (2nd)]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Scenic Artist]
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Miss Winters' Costumes
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Wardrobe Supervisor
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Hairdresser
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Music by
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['Alfie' Vocal by - US prints]
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['Alfie' Vocal Produced by - US prints]
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Sound Recordist
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[Sound Camera Operator]
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[Boom Operator]
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[Sound Maintenance]
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Dubbing Mixer
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[Dubbing Crew]
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[Dubbing Crew]
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[Dubbing Crew]
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[Dubbing Crew]
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Dubbing Editor
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[Publicity]
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