| Nobody Ordered Love | |
|---|---|
 Still from the film | |
| Directed by | Robert Hartford-Davis |
| Written by | Robert Shearer |
| Produced by | Robert Hartford-Davis |
| Starring | Ingrid Pitt Judy Huxtable John Ronane |
| Music by | Tony Osborne |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Nobody Ordered Love is a lost 1972 British comedy drama film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Ingrid Pitt, Judy Huxtable and Tony Selby. [1]
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According to the British Film Institute (BFI), which holds an annotated shooting script in its collection, 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]
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