Live Now, Pay Later is a 1962 British black-and-white film starring Ian Hendry, June Ritchie and John Gregson.[3][4] Hendry plays a smooth-talking, conniving door-to-door salesman.[5]
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Directed by | Jay Lewis |
Written by | Jack Trevor Story |
Based on | novel All on the Never-Never by Jack Lindsay[1][2] |
Produced by | Jack Hanbury |
Starring | Ian Hendry June Ritchie John Gregson |
Cinematography | Jack Hildyard |
Edited by | Roger Cherrill |
Music by | Ron Grainer |
Production company | Woodland |
Distributed by | Regal Films International (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Unsavoury door-to-door salesman Albert Argyle's (Ian Hendry) technique involves bedding his female customers in an attempt to seduce them to buy on credit. As well as being unfaithful to his pregnant girlfriend (June Ritchie), the unrepentant Albert is also cheating his boss (John Gregson) out of profits, and also trying his hand at a spot of blackmail.
The only known print was discovered and finally made available on DVD in June 2020.[citation needed] The film premiered on Talking Pictures TV on 9 October 2022.
Filming locations included London, Elstree and Luton. A collection of location stills and corresponding contemporary photographs is hosted at reelstreets.com.[6]
In a contemporary review, Variety considered it to have "many amusing moments, but overall it is untidy and does not develop the personalities of some of the main characters sufficiently";[2] whereas more recently, the Radio Times gave the film four out of five stars, noting "...a remarkably cynical and revealing portrait of Britain shifting from postwar austerity into rampant consumerism and the Swinging Sixties."[7]
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