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Only Two Can Play (1962)

· 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 242

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The wan Don who thinks he’s Don Juan – a Welsh librarian gets the seven-year-itch.

This week writer Paul Whitelaw makes his first faltering steps into Goon Pod territory to talk about a favourite film: Only Two Can Play, directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Peter Sellers, Virginia Maskell and Mai Zetterling.

Released barely a year before Sellers breasted the tape of international stardom with The Pink Panther, it is a delightfully quirky, darkly amusing tale based on a Kingsley Amis novel. Amis himself got caught up in the filming and was regularly present during the production; he and…

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