''The Other People'' (also known as ''Sleep is Lovely'' and ''I Love You, I Hate You'') is a 1968 British film. The film appears to have never been released, and is considered a
lost film
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It was discovered at Paramount in 2017 and will be preserved.
Plot
Peter can't get over his ex-girlfriend Elsa even though they broke up over a year ago. He spends all his time on a barge owned by his friend John and John's younger brother Colin. One morning Peter, John and Colin see a middle aged man, Clive, fall out of a motor cruiser into the water. They rescue him and decide to ransom him for £1,000. Peter and Elsa are-reunited but Elsa then commences an affair with Colin. Clive turns out to be Elsa's father.
Cast
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Peter McEnery
Peter Robert McEnery (born 21 February 1940) is a retired English stage and film actor.
Early life
McEnery was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, to Charles and Ada Mary (née Brinson) McEnery. He was educated at Ellesmere College, Shropshire.
H ...
as Peter
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Donald Pleasence
Donald Henry Pleasence (; 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before transitioning into a screen career, where he played numerous supporting and character roles including RAF ...
as Clive, Elsa's father
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Olga Georges-Picot as Elsa
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John McEnery
John McEnery (1 November 1943 – 12 April 2019) was an English actor and writer.
Born in Birmingham, he trained (1962–1964) at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, playing, among others, Mosca in Ben Jonson's ''Volpone'' and Gaveston ...
as John
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George Coulouris
George Alexander Coulouris (1 October 1903 – 25 April 1989) was an English film and stage actor.
Early life
Coulouris was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, the son of Abigail (née Redfern) anNicholas Coulouris a merchant of Greek o ...
as police inspector
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Bruce Robinson
Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed the cult classic ''Withnail and I'' (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the late 1960s, which drew on hi ...
as Colin
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Colin Jeavons
Colin Abel Jeavons (born 20 October 1929) is a retired British television actor.
Career
Jeavons' earliest television role was as Jules Neraud in an episode of the 1956 anthology series of teleplays ''Nom-de-Plume''. Broadcast live, it is unkno ...
as butler
*William Ellis as Royal Marines officer
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Virginia Wetherell
Virginia Wetherell (born 9 May 1943 in Farnham, Surrey) is an English actress known for her roles in Hammer horror films such as ''Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde'' (1971) and ''Demons of the Mind'' (1972).
Her other film appearances include ''The ...
as girl at airport
Production
Producer
Michael Deeley
Michael Deeley (born 6 August 1932) is an Academy Award-winning British film producer known for such motion pictures as ''The Italian Job'' (1969), ''The Deer Hunter'' (1978), and ''Blade Runner'' (1982). He is also a founding member and Honora ...
said director
David Hart "was one of the cleverest men I have met and when he decided to be a film director it seemed like a good idea for me to help him."
[Michael Deeley, ''Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies'', Pegasus Books, 2009 p 43] The film was set up at Deeley's
Oakhurst Productions and financed by
Paramount Pictures as part of a low-budget film state ordered by the studio's new owner,
Charles Bluhdorn.
The film was passed to the BBFC for certification in September 1968, but despite the cast involved and backing of
Oakhurst Productions and
Paramount Pictures, it does not appear to have had a trade screening, been shown to a paying audience, screened on TV or released on video.
In 2017 elements of the film were discovered in the archive at Paramount in Los Angeles. The film will be preserved.
See also
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List of lost films
References
External links
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''Sleep Is Lovely'' entryat the
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery (United Kingdom), National Lot ...
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1968 films
1960s lost films
Lost British films
Films scored by John Dankworth
1960s English-language films