Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)
- Original title
- Entertaining Mr. Sloane
- Directed by
- Douglas Hickox
- Genre
- comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 24 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A lonely woman takes in a young man as a lodger and lover. Her brother also takes a liking to the man, who plays the two siblings against each other. The lodger ends up trapped in a three-way relationship through blackmail.
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What happens
Entertaining Mr Sloane is a 1970 British black comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox. The screenplay by Clive Exton is based on the 1964 play of the same title by Joe Orton. This was the second adaptation of the play, the first having been developed for British television and broadcast by ITV on 15 July 1968. In the film, a lonely woman invites a recent acquaintance to become her lodger and her lover. Her brother likes him as well, and the new arrival plays the siblings against each other. But the lodger is eventually blackmailed into becoming both their prisoner and their shared lover, in a ménage à trois. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Anniversary (1968)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.