Live Now, Pay Later (1962)

Original title

Live Now - Pay Later

Directed by

Jay Lewis

Genre

black comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

X

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A salesman uses charm and seduction to push products onto female customers, all while secretly stealing from sales and working as a blackmailer. The film follows his manipulative schemes and the consequences that catch up with him.

wrysatiricalbriskcynicalsharp-edgedperiodunromantic

What happens

Live Now – Pay Later is a 1962 British black-and-white comedy-drama film directed by Jay Lewis and starring Ian Hendry, June Ritchie and John Gregson. It was loosely based on the 1961 novel All on the Never-Never by Jack Lindsay. However, the script was solely written by Jack Trevor Story, who subsequently authored the 1963 novel Live Now, Pay Later. The film focuses on the life of a salesman who habitually seduces his female customers in order to convince them to buy his products. He is secretly embezzling money from the sales, and has a side career as a blackmailer. The lead actors, Hendry and Ritchie, would reunite two years later to film the kitchen sink realism drama This Is My Street (1964). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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