Entertaining Mr Sloane (film)
| Entertaining Mr Sloane | |
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| Directed by | Douglas Hickox |
| Produced by | Douglas Kentish |
| Written by |
Joe Orton (play) Clive Exton (screenplay) |
| Starring |
Beryl Reid Harry Andrews Peter McEnery Alan Webb |
| Music by | Georgie Fame |
| Cinematography | Wolfgang Suschitzky |
| Edited by | John Trumper |
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Canterbury Film Productions
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| Distributed by |
Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd. Warner-Pathé (UK) |
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Running time
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94 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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 telecast by ITV on 15 July 1968.
Murder, homosexuality, nymphomania, and sadism are among the themes of this black comedy focusing on a brother and sister who become involved with a young, sexy, amoral drifter with a mysterious past.
Kath is a lonely middle-aged woman living in the London suburbs with her ageing father Kemp, referred to as DaDa or the DaDa. When she meets the attractive Sloane sunbathing on a tombstone in the cemetery near her home, she invites him to become a lodger. Soon after he accepts her offer, Kath seduces him. Her closeted brother Ed makes him the chauffeur (complete with a titillating tight leather uniform) of his pink 1959 Pontiac Parisienne convertible. Kemp, recognizing Sloane as the man who killed his boss years before, stabs him in the leg with a gardening tool.
Sloane takes delight in playing brother against sister and tormenting the elderly man. He gets Kath pregnant and a jealous Ed warns him to stay away from her. When Sloane murders Kemp to protect his secret, they blackmail him by threatening to report him to the police unless he agrees to participate in a ménage à trois in which he becomes not only a sexual partner but their prisoner as well.
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