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Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin. Running time. 114 minutes. Michael Caine sealed his screen stardom with this memorable portrayal of a cockney womaniser whose exploits seemingly typified the sexual freedoms of Swinging 60s London.
The play recounts the life of a working-class London ladies man, Alfie Elkins, and the many women who pass through his life. The play was adapted into a film twice, a 1966 version starring Michael Caine and a 2004 version starring Jude Law , with the location switched to Manhattan and the character being an ex-pat Cockney.
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Alfie: Directed by Lewis Gilbert. With Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster. Unrepentant ladies' man Alfie Elkins gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle in 1960s London.
- (16K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Lewis Gilbert
- 1966-08-24
Alfie Elkins, a handsome Cockney, self-centered, narcissistic chauffeur in London, enjoys the sexual favours of married and single women while avoiding commitment. He is ending an affair with Siddie, a married woman, just as he gets his submissive single girlfriend, Gilda, pregnant.
Dr Tony Aldgate of the Open university discusses the liberalisation of censorship during the 'Swinging Sixties' with particular reference to Bill Naughton's play 'Alfie Elkins and his Little Life' and.
Set in the swinging sixties, Alfie finds Caine playing the eponymous womaniser, incapable of empathising with another person’s feelings, be they male or female.
