Game for Three Losers

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Game for Three Losers
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Directed by Gerry O'Hara
Written by Roger Marshall
Based on Game for Three Losers by Edgar Lustgarten
Produced byJack Greenwood
Starring Michael Gough
Mark Eden
Toby Robins
Allan Cuthbertson
Cinematography James Wilson
Edited byDerek Holding
Music byBernard Ebbinghouse
Production
company
Merton Park Studios
Distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
Release date
  • 1965 (1965)
Running time
55 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

Game for Three Losers is a 1965 British drama film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Michael Gough, Mark Eden and Toby Robins. [1] It was written by Roger Marshall and made at Merton Park Studios as part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace adaptations; this being adapted from a novel of the same name by Edgar Lustgarten. [2] [3]

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Plot

Happily married businessman and politician Robert Hilary lets his desire for his new secretary get the better of him, and he kisses her. Her boyfriend finds out and blackmails him, but when the blackmailer continues to return for more money Robert decides to call in the authorities. However, this leads to severe consequences for all.

Cast

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "While in some respects a good example of Merton Park's efforts to raise the conventional crime-drama second feature above the level of dreary routine, this thriller miscalculates many of its effects. Shot in a manner that was presumably aiming at Simenon-like concision, it seems instead to be full of unnecessary omissions, which hamper the smooth development of the story. The severe curtailment of the final trial scene, plunging us from Hilary's discomfiture under cross-examination and Oliver's feeling of triumph to Oliver being sentenced, is particularly weak. Michael Gough, conceivably miscast in the role of the M.P., fails to secure as much sympathy as the character would seem to deserve." [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Game for Three Losers". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
  2. ↑ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   9783110951943 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Game for Three Losers (1965) - British Board of Film Classification
  4. ↑ "Game for Three Losers". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 32 (372): 109. 1 January 1965 – via ProQuest.
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