No Love for Johnnie (1961)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Director:

Ralph Thomas

Escritores:

Wilfred Fienburgh (novel)
Nicholas Phipps (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

5 julio 1961 (Alemania Occidental)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life...

Plot Keywords:

Political | Based On Novel | Independent Film | Character Name In Title

Premios:

Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

I like Johnnie

Reparto

Peter Finch	...	Johnnie Byrne
Stanley Holloway	...	Fred Andrews
Mary Peach	...	Pauline
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Peter Barkworth	...	Henderson
Hugh Burden	...	Tim Maxwell
Marian Collins	...	Pretty Girl
Rosalie Crutchley	...	Alice Byrne
Fenella Fielding	...	Sheila
Derek Francis
Michael Goodliffe	...	Dr. West
Gladys Henson	...	Constituent
Mervyn Johns	...	Charlie Young
Geoffrey Keen	...	The Prime Minister
Conrad Phillips
Donald Pleasence	...	Roger Renfrew
Dennis Price	...	Flagg
Maureen Pryor
Paul Rogers	...	Sydney Johnson
George Rose
Peter Sallis	...	M.P.
Billie Whitelaw	...	Mary

Duración:

USA:110 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

UK:X | West Germany:18 (f) | Australia:PG

Compañía:

Five Star Films Ltd.

I like Johnnie

`No Love for Johnnie' is an enjoyable political drama whose sub-plot concerns the doomed love affair between the main character and a much younger woman. The nature of this relationship is undermined by the fact that 42 year old Johnnie Byrne is played by handsome, virile Peter Finch whereas Mary Peach playing 20 looks nearer 30 and Byrne's job as an MP in a Labour government would presumably make him even more attractive - remember Henry Kissinger's remark about the aphrodisiac nature of power?

The film takes a conventionally cynical view of politics; the Labour cabinet is referred to as `a gang of lawyers and university lecturers' so nothing much has changed since 1961. I felt that there was one too many shots of the admittedly magnificent Palace of Westminster from the other bank of the Thames and I certainly could not see any reason for Cinemascope as the action is almost exclusively indoors.

Stanley Holloway, always good value, playing a fellow-MP acts as a sort of conscious to Byrne but see if you can spot Oliver Reed in one scene with a waste-paper basket over his head, even then a party animal! And the brilliant Billie Whitelaw turns a neighbour who is little more than a doormat into a fully rounded character.

Maybe the `red menace' lurking in the background dates `No Love for Johnnie' but I found it most involving.