After film director Paul Medbury attempts to replace Alice Allison, the alcoholic star of his new First World War movie entitled The Somme, with up-and-coming starlet Caroline Johnson, a series of tragic events begins to unfold.
According to the British Film Institute (BFI), which holds an annotated shooting script in its collection,[1]Nobody Ordered Love is considered a lost film and is on its 75 Most Wanted list. Kevin Lyons of the BFI National Library Filmographic Unit writes:
Rank released Nobody Ordered Love in 1972 and it certainly played the New Victoria in London, regular home to low-budget exploitation fare. Star Ingrid Pitt has suggested – in an interview with the Celluloid Slammer blog as well as in one of her on-going series of columns for the Den of Geek website that Hartford-Davis had a falling out with Rank over the lack of promotion they were giving the film and stormed off with the prints, decamping to the States, where he continued to work. After his death, Pitt claims, his widow arranged for his belongings to be disposed of and the cans of film were among those items thrown out.[2]
Reception
In The Monthly Film BulletinDavid McGillivray wrote: "In attempting to point up the ruthless chicanery and corruption of the film industry (something Hollywood has proved an undisputed master at exposing), Nobody Ordered Love goes completely off the rails. What seals its fate is the total lack of contrast between film and film-within-film. The dialogue seems to be equally abysmal in both, it becomes impossible to detect which actors are supposed to be bad and which aren't, and whether it is Paul Medbury striving for realism or Robert Hartford-Davis parodying himself (in Corruption) as the shot of Ingrid Pitt's stomach being ripped open with a bayonet is repeated again and again.... A few observations, no doubt culled from the writer or director's own experience, manage to be ludicrously accurate (the nude audition, the supporting player who considers himself God's gift to female extras) but the majority, bluntly over-stated, are simply ludicrous."[3]
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