Two Gentlemen Sharing

Two Gentlemen Sharing
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Directed by	Ted Kotcheff
Screenplay by	Evan Jones
Based on	Two Gentlemen Sharing; by David Stuart Leslie
Produced by	J. Barry Kulick
Starring	Robin Phillips; Judy Geeson; Esther Anderson
Cinematography	Billy Williams
Edited by	Derek York
Music by	Stanley Myers
Production; companies	American International Productions; Epstein-Kulick Productions
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK); American International Pictures (US)
Release dates	17 September 1969 (New York, US);
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; United States
Language	English

Two Gentlemen Sharing is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson, Esther Anderson, Hal Frederick, Norman Rossington and Rachel Kempson.^[1]

The film cost an estimated £380,000 to make.^[2]

Premise[]

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[]

Robin Phillips as Roddy
Judy Geeson as Jane
Esther Anderson as Caroline
Hal Frederick as Andrew
Norman Rossington as Phil
Rachel Kempson as Mrs. Ashby-Kydd
Ram John Holder as Marcus
Hilary Dwyer as Ethne
Daisy Mae Williams as Amanda
Philip Stone as Ethne's father
Elspeth March as Ethne's mother
Avice Landone as Roddy's mother
David Markham as Roddy's father
Shelagh Fraser as Jane's mother
Earl Cameron as Jane's father

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."^[3]

References[]

^ "Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974, p. 407.
^ "Two Gentlemen Sharing". Variety. 1 January 1969.

External links[]

Two Gentlemen Sharing at IMDb

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[1] "Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.

[walker-2] Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974, p. 407.

[3] "Two Gentlemen Sharing". Variety. 1 January 1969.

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