No Love for Johnnie

"It Scorches With All the Intensity of Truth"

1961 1h 50m EN

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★6.7TMDB · 9

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Synopsis

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Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

“It Scorches With All the Intensity of Truth”

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Cast

Peter Finch
Johnnie Byrne
Stanley Holloway
Fred Andrews
Mary Peach
Pauline West
Donald Pleasence
Renfrew
Billie Whitelaw
Mary
Hugh Burden
Tim Maxwell
Rosalie Crutchley
Alice Byrne
Michael Goodliffe
Dr. West

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Ralph Thomas
Writers: Nicholas Phipps, Mordecai Richler
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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ERA

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65 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Alfred Roome shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Peter Finch and Stanley Holloway and Mary Peach carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "It Scorches With All the Intensity of Truth".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0055234 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 9 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Ralph Thomas directs. Alfred Roome cuts. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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165 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Editor Alfred Roome shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
3Peter Finch and Stanley Holloway and Mary Peach carry the top of the cast.
4Marketing tagline: "It Scorches With All the Intensity of Truth".
5IMDB entry: tt0055234 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 9 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Editing: Alfred Roome
Runtime: 110 min · 1h 50m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: No Love for Johnnie (1961)

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CinemaSerf2022-04-04
★ 6/10
Peter Finch seems very much at home with this role. He is "Johnnie Byrne", the successfully returned Labour MP for the working class constituency of "Urnley". Overlooked for a government position, he lives a pretty rakish existence regularly cheating on his wife with younger women. It all comes to a bit of an head when he comes into information that he could use to damage his own government; intent on using it he instead gets caught up with a lady friend "Pauline" (Mary Peach) and misses the opportunity to ask the question. One of his cohorts is less than impressed, so leaks this to his local party who force a vote of no confidence in him. He has to take stock now - else he could and up with nothing at all. Despite the decent cast - Stanley Holloway, Donald Pleasance and Billie Whiteaw appear now and again - it really is a bit of a single-hander from Finch. He does a decent enough job, but I found that the film slides into mediocrity after a promising start. The quality of the dialogue slips markedly as the story progresses and somehow, there is a convenience to the ending that rendered it just a bit hollow. I suppose for 1961 it might be considered a bit racy, but that has lost what potency it had now, too. Worth it for Finch, but I don't know that I would bother watching it again.

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