ALFIE
Year: 1966
UK: BFI (Collections)
Cast: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher, Shirley Anne Field, Vivien Merchant, Eleanor Bron, Denholm Elliott, Alfie Bass, Graham Stark, Murray Melvin, Sidney Tafler, Peter Graves
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Country: UK
UK: 113 mins
UK Certificate: 12 contains moderate sex references and abortion references
UK Release Date: 11 May 2001 (Limited Re-release - London)
Synopsis
Based on the novel Alfie by Bill Naughton, Michael Caine stars as the title character, a womaniser out to have a good time with a different girl every night of the week. His live-in girlfriend Gilda (Julia Foster) becomes pregnant by him but Alfie, unable to face up to this responsibility, escapes to the country. Alfie continues to engage in sexual affairs with a variety of women: millionairess Ruby (Shelley Winters), young runaway Siddie (Millicent Martin), and eventually his friend's wife, Lily (Vivien Merchant). The good times seem endless until misfortune strikes and Alfie is forced to face the product of his reckless debauchery.