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Entertaining Mr Sloane (film), the Glossary

Entertaining Mr Sloane is a 1970 British black comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox.^[1]

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1970 LGBT-related films
1970 black comedy films
1970 comedy-drama films
1970s pregnancy films
British pregnancy films
Films directed by Douglas Hickox
Films with screenplays by Clive Exton

Alan Webb (actor)

Alan Norton Fletcher Webb (2 July 1906 – 22 June 1982) was an English actor.

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Amorality

Amorality (also known as amoralism) is an absence of, indifference towards, disregard for, or incapacity for morality.

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Anglo-Amalgamated

Anglo-Amalgamated Productions was a British film production company, run by Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy, which operated from 1945 until roughly 1971 (after which it was absorbed into EMI Films).

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Associated British Picture Corporation

Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production, distribution and exhibition company active from 1927 until 1970 when it was absorbed into EMI.

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BBC Studios Home Entertainment

2 Entertain Video Limited, trading as BBC Studios Home Entertainment, is a British video and music publisher founded in 2004 following the merger of BBC Video and Video Collection International by BBC Worldwide & Woolworths Group respectively.

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Beryl Reid

Beryl Elizabeth Reid (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996) was a British actress.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females (gender binary), to more than one gender, or to both people of the same gender and different genders.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Blackmail

Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat.

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Brockley

Brockley is a district and an electoral ward of south London, England, in the London Borough of Lewisham south-east of Charing Cross.

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Camberwell Cemeteries

The Camberwell cemeteries located close to each other in Honor Oak, South London, England, are notable for their significant burials and architecture.

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Cemetery

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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Chauffeur

A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or a limousine.

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Clive Exton

Clive Exton (11 April 1930 – 16 August 2007) was a British television and film screenwriter who wrote scripts for the series Poirot, Jeeves and Wooster and Rosemary & Thyme.

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Closeted

Closeted and in the closet are metaphors for LGBT people who have not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity and aspects thereof, including sexual identity and sexual behavior.

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Comfort

Comfort (or being comfortable) is a sense of physical or psychological ease, often characterised as a lack of hardship.

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Convertible

A convertible or cabriolet is a passenger car that can be driven with or without a roof in place.

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Douglas Hickox

Douglas Arthur Hickox (10 January 1929 – 25 July 1988) was an English film and television director.

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Dudley Sutton

Dudley Sutton (6 April 1933 – 15 September 2018) was an English actor.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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East Dulwich

East Dulwich is an area of South East London, England in the London Borough of Southwark.

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Entertaining Mr Sloane

Entertaining Mr Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton.

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Farce

Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.

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Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English R&B and jazz musician.

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Grotesque

Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.

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Harry Andrews

Harry Stewart Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English actor known for his film portrayals of tough military officers.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Honor Oak

Honor Oak is an inner suburban area principally of the London Borough of Lewisham, with part in the London Borough of Southwark.

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Hypersexuality

Hypersexuality is a presumed mental disorder that causes unwanted or excessive sexual arousal, causing people to engage in or think about sexual activity to a point of distress or impairment.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Joe Orton

John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist.

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Leather

Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.

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Lodging

Lodging refers to the use of a short-term dwelling, usually by renting the living space or sometimes through some other arrangement.

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Lumiere Pictures and Television

Canal+ Image International (formerly known as EMI Films, Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Lumiere Pictures and Television, and UGC DA) was a British-French film, television, animation studio and distributor.

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Ménage à trois

A ménage à trois is a domestic arrangement or committed relationship consisting of three people in polyamorous romantic or sexual relations with each other, and often dwelling together.

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Misdirection (magic)

In theatrical magic, misdirection is a form of deception in which the performer draws audience attention to one thing to distract it from another.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Nat Cohen

Nat Cohen (23 December 1905 – 10 February 1988)William D. Rubinstein, et al (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p.171 was a British film producer and executive.

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Peter McEnery

Peter Robert McEnery (born 21 February 1940) is a retired English stage and film actor.

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Pontiac Parisienne

The Pontiac Parisienne is a full-size rear-wheel drive vehicle that was sold by Pontiac on the GM B platform in Canada from 1958 to 1986 and in the United States from 1983 to 1986.

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Pregnancy

Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops (gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb).

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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

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Prisoner

A prisoner (also known as an inmate or detainee) is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will.

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Roger Greenspun

Roger Greenspun (December 16, 1929 – June 18, 2017) was an American journalist and film critic, best known for his work with The New York Times in which he reviewed near 400 films, particularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and for Penthouse for which he was the film critic throughout much of the late 1970s and 1980s.

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Sadomasochism

Sadism and masochism, known collectively as sadomasochism, are the derivation of pleasure from acts of respectively inflicting or receiving pain or humiliation.

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Seduction

In sexuality, seduction means enticing someone into sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.

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Sexual partner

Sexual partners are people who engage in sexual activity together.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a global magazine published by Time Out Group.

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University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a public research university based in Leicester, England.

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Vagrancy

Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income.

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Wolfgang Suschitzky

Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC (29 August 1912 – 7 October 2016), was an Austrian-born British documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on Mike Hodges' 1971 film Get Carter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertaining_Mr_Sloane_(film)

Also known as Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970), Entertaining Mr. Sloane (film).

, Vagrancy, Wolfgang Suschitzky.

Entertaining Mr Sloane (film), the Glossary

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See also

1970 black comedy films

1970 comedy-drama films

1970s pregnancy films

British pregnancy films

Films directed by Douglas Hickox

Films with screenplays by Clive Exton

References