Alfie Elkins
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- Denholm Elliott's performance as a seedy, backstreet abortionist is easily the best thing in the film, which treads a fine line between glorifying Alfie's amorality and castigating him for his sexism. The hugely entertaining result is both a minor British classic and a valuable record of the hedonistic Swinging 60s.
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Alfie, the movie which launched Michael Caine's career, is a drama (perhaps dark comedy, although I would not label it as a pure comedy) about the ways of a playboy constantly having affairs with both women - married ones, too!
May 2, 2001 · Denholm Elliott's performance as a seedy, backstreet abortionist is easily the best thing in the film, which treads a fine line between glorifying Alfie's amorality and castigating him for his...
Dec 16, 2023 · When it comes to iconic movies of the 1960s, “Alfie” certainly deserves a top spot. Directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring the charming and charismatic Michael Caine, this British film made a lasting impact on the world of cinema.
Alfie Elkins, a handsome, self-centered, narcissistic Cockney 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 girlfriend, Gilda, pregnant.
After impregnating his girlfriend he takes off on vacation. He continues his life of womanizing, but he can't hide forever. A misfortune strikes and Alfie is forced to face the product of his...
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- Lewis Gilbert
- PG
- Michael Caine
Nov 4, 2004 · Alfie, in 1966 and again in the 2004 version, desperately wants to keep smiling, have a great time, and be lover to a parade of women who are willing and friendly, and never complain, and make no demands, and understand his need to be unfaithful.
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 swinging 1960's London. Sir Michael Caine's breakthrough movie role.
