Live Now, Pay Later

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]

Live Now, Pay Later
British theatrical poster
Directed byJay Lewis
Written byJack Trevor Story
Based onnovel All on the Never-Never by Jack Lindsay[1][2]
Produced byJack Hanbury
StarringIan Hendry
June Ritchie
John Gregson
CinematographyJack Hildyard
Edited byRoger Cherrill
Music byRon Grainer
Production
company
Woodland
Distributed byRegal Films International (UK)
Release date
  • 25 October 1962 (1962-10-25) (UK)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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.

Preservation status

The only known print was discovered and finally made available on DVD in June 2020. The film premiered on Talking Pictures TV on 9 October 2022.

Cast

Production

Filming locations included London, Elstree and Luton. A collection of location stills and corresponding contemporary photographs is hosted at reelstreets.com.[6]

Critical reception

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]

References
  1. Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.
  2. Variety Staff (1 January 1962). "Live Now Pay Later".
  3. Live Now, Pay Later (1962) at the British Film Institute
  4. "Live Now - Pay Later (1962) - Original Print Info - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
  5. "Live Now Pay Later (1962) - Complete Film". ianhendry.com.
  6. "Live Now, Pay Later". Reelstreets. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  7. "British 60s cinema - Live Now, Pay Later (redone Jan 2017)". www.british60scinema.net.


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