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Game for Three Losers is a 1965 British drama film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Michael Gough, Mark Eden and Toby Robins. It was written by Roger Marshall and made at Merton Park Studios as part of the long-running series of Edgar Wallace adaptations; this being adapted from a novel of the same name by Edgar Lustgarten.




Plot


Happily married businessman and politician Robert Hilary lets his desire for his new secretary get the better of him, and he kisses her. Her boyfriend finds out and blackmails him, but when the blackmailer continues to return for more money Robert decides to call in the authorities. However, this leads to severe consequences for all.




Cast


Michael Gough as Robert Hilary
Mark Eden as Oliver Marchant
Toby Robins as Frances Challinor
Rachel Gurney as Adele
Allan Cuthbertson as Garsden
Al Mulock as Nick
Roger Hammond as Peter Fletcher
Lockwood West as Justice Tree
Mark Dignam as Attorney General
Catherine Willmer as Miss Stewart
Anne Pichon as Miss Fawcett
Kenneth Benda as Bryce
Leslie Sarony as Harley
David Lander as Burton
David Browning as Casey
Frank Forsyth as Jimmy
Toni Palmer as Jackie
Donald Tandy as Conyers
Colin Douglas as Superintendent Manton
Peter Bennett as Watkins




Reception


The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "While in some respects a good example of Merton Park's efforts to raise the conventional crime-drama second feature above the level of dreary routine, this thriller miscalculates many of its effects. Shot in a manner that was presumably aiming at Simenon-like concision, it seems instead to be full of unnecessary omissions, which hamper the smooth development of the story. The severe curtailment of the final trial scene, plunging us from Hilary's discomfiture under cross-examination and Oliver's feeling of triumph to Oliver being sentenced, is particularly weak. Michael Gough, conceivably miscast in the role of the M.P., fails to secure as much sympathy as the character would seem to deserve."




References






External links


Film page at BFI
Game for Three Losers at IMDb

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