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Two Gentlemen Sharing

1969 American-British film by Ted Kotcheff

Two Gentlemen Sharing is a 1969 American-British drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson, Esther Anderson, Hal Frederick, Norman Rossington and Rachel Kempson.[1][2] It was written by Evan Jones based on the 1963 novel of the same name by David Stuart Leslie.

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The film cost an estimated £380,000 to make.[3] It was not theatrically released in the UK.[1][3]

Plot

An upper-class white Englishman is forced to confront his own feelings and prejudices when the London flat he advertises for sharing is taken up by an Oxford-educated black Jamaican.

Cast

Critical reception

Variety wrote: "Film boasts a solid and well-chosen cast, strong physical values for such a medium-scaled item, and a racial story [from a novel by David Stuart Leslie] delivered with unhysterical acumen and, at times, with considerable barbed humor."[4]

John Coleman wrote in the New Statesman: "Another stab at that colour problem. ... it was a pleasure to have a couple of laughs. Evan Jones's script is very alert at the beginning, when the posh black comes to share a flat with the posh white.[5]

Boxoffice wrote: "Chosen as the official British entry to the [1969] Venice Film Festival, this J. Barry Kulick productiona strong, adult story for mature audiences. It should click extremely well with art house clientele."[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Two Gentlemen Sharing". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  2. [2]
    "Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
  3. [3]
    Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974, p. 407–8.
  4. [4]
    "Two Gentlemen Sharing". Variety. 1 January 1969.
  5. [5]
    "Is Venice Sinking?". New Statesman. 66: 351. 12 September 1969 – via ProQuest.
  6. [6]
    "Two Gentlemen Sharing". Boxoffice. 95 (24): a11. 29 September 1969 – via ProQuest.


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