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Two Gentlemen Sharing
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Wikipedia article
'Two Gentlemen Sharing' is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson, Esther Anderson, Hal Frederick, Norman Rossington and Rachel Kempson.
The film cost an estimated 380,000 to make.Alexander Walker, 'Hollywood, England', Stein and Day, 1974, p. 407.
Premise
An upper-class white Englishman is forced to confront his own feelings and prejudices when the London flat he advertises for sharing is taken up by an Oxford-educated black Jamaican.
Cast
*Robin Phillips as Roddy
*Judy Geeson as Jane
*Esther Anderson as Caroline
*Hal Frederick as Andrew
*Norman Rossington as Phil
*Rachel Kempson as Mrs. Ashby-Kydd
*Ram John Holder as Marcus
*Hilary Dwyer as Ethne
*Daisy Mae Williams as Amanda
*Philip Stone as Ethne's father
*Elspeth March as Ethne's mother
*Avice Landone as Roddy's mother
*David Markham as Roddy's father
*Shelagh Fraser as Jane's mother
*Earl Cameron as Jane's father
Critical reception
'Variety' wrote, "Film boasts a solid and well-chosen cast, strong physical values for such a medium-scaled item, and a racial story [from a novel by David Stuart Leslie] delivered with unhysterical acumen and, at times, with considerable barbed humor."
References
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