Live Now, Pay Later
| Live Now, Pay Later | |
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| Directed by | Jay Lewis |
| Written by | Jack Trevor Story |
| Based on | novel All on the Never-Never by Jack Lindsay[1][2] |
| Produced by | Jack Hanbury |
| Starring | Ian Hendry June Ritchie John Gregson |
| Cinematography | Jack Hildyard |
| Edited by | Roger Cherrill |
| Music by | Ron Grainer |
Production company | Woodland |
| Distributed by | Regal Films International (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Live Now, Pay Later is a 1962 British black-and-white film starring Ian Hendry, June Ritchie and John Gregson.[3][4] Hendry plays a smooth-talking, conniving door-to-door salesman.[5]
Plot
Unsavoury door-to-door salesman Albert Argyle's (Ian Hendry) technique involves bedding his female customers in an attempt to seduce them to buy on credit. As well as being unfaithful to his pregnant girlfriend (June Ritchie), the unrepentant Albert is also cheating his boss (John Gregson) out of profits, and also trying his hand at a spot of blackmail.
Preservation status
The only known print was discovered and finally made available on DVD in June 2020.[citation needed] The film premiered on Talking Pictures TV on 9 October 2022.
Cast
- Ian Hendry as Albert Argyle
- June Ritchie as Treasure
- John Gregson as Callendar
- Liz Fraser as Joyce Corby
- Geoffrey Keen as Reggie Corby
- Jeanette Sterke as Grace
- Peter Butterworth as Fred
- Nyree Dawn Porter as Marjorie Mason
- Ronald Howard as Cedric Mason
- Harold Berens as Solly Cowell
- Thelma Ruby as Hetty
- Monte Landis as Arnold (as Monty Landis)
- Kevin Brennan as Jackson
- Malcolm Knight as Ratty
- Bridget Armstrong as Gloria
- Judith Furse as Mrs. Ackroyd (as Judith Furze)
- Joan Heal as Mrs. Pocock
- Michael Brennan as Bailiff
- Geoffrey Hibbert as Price
- William Kendall as Major Simpkins
- Georgina Cookson as Lucy
- Justine Lord as Coral Wentworth
- Andrew Cruickshank as Vicar
- John Wood as Curate
- Peter Bowles as Reginald Parker
- Diana King as Woman Looking Round Flat
- Robert Raglan
Production
Filming locations included London, Elstree and Luton. A collection of location stills and corresponding contemporary photographs is hosted at reelstreets.com.[6]
Critical reception
In a contemporary review, Variety considered it to have "many amusing moments, but overall it is untidy and does not develop the personalities of some of the main characters sufficiently";[2] whereas more recently, the Radio Times gave the film four out of five stars, noting "...a remarkably cynical and revealing portrait of Britain shifting from postwar austerity into rampant consumerism and the Swinging Sixties."[7]
References
- ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Variety Staff (1 January 1962). "Live Now Pay Later".
- ^ Template:BFI
- ^ "Live Now - Pay Later (1962) - Original Print Info - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
- ^ "Live Now Pay Later (1962) - Complete Film". ianhendry.com.
- ^ "Live Now, Pay Later". Reelstreets. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ "British 60s cinema - Live Now, Pay Later (redone Jan 2017)". www.british60scinema.net.
External links
- Flight from Treason at IMDb
- Live Now - Pay Later at the TCM Movie Database
- Live Now, Pay Later at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
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