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Alfie [1965] | ![Alfie [1965]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71PNCARAMJL._SL75_.gif)
 enlarge | Director: Lewis Gilbert (ii)
Actors: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 7628
Format: Closed-captioned, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 110
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.7 x 1.3
UPC: 780063454834
EAN: 0780063454834
ASIN: B00004CZR0
Theatrical Release Date: August 24, 1966
Release Date: October 18, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
"What's it all about, Alfie?" asked the hit Burt Bacharach/Hal David title song, to which the less philosophical answer might be: an amoral young man comically seducing a succession of beautiful women in swinging-sixties London. Michael Caine was the titular anti-hero, here consolidating his new star status from Zulu (1964) and The Ipcress File (1965), his conquests including Shelley Winters, Jane Asher and Shirley Ann Field. Alfie was a huge success, bringing a new frankness about changing sexual attitudes to the screen, in which respect it was almost the male companion to Julie Christie's then shocking, Oscar-winning performance in Darling (1965). It was also a sort-of contemporary Tom Jones, which had swept the Oscars for 1963, however, Alfie was not only better made, but in Michael Caine's guilelessly amoral asides to camera, offered a groundbreaking illustration of a newly self-conscious cinema. It is a technique Caine would reprise as the middle-aged philanderer in Blame It On Rio (1983). With Blow Up also released in 1966, and Ken Russell's Women In Love following in 1969, British film-making was truly in the midst of a sexual revolution. Michael Caine would reunite with director Lewis Gilbert and meet his female match in Educating Rita (1983). --Gary S. Dalkin
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 A life April 14, 2008
Alfie is simply a walking penis. He thinks with it, eats with it and dies with it - he thinks with his head not his head. He has no notion of the pain and suffering he causes. This men like many simply does his thing. End of.
But he is not the only one at 'fault'. These women are not children. They know what sex and pregnancy mean, etc. Alfie does not rape them. They partake in his fantasy. Maybe humdrum lives are the reason.
This is simply a life mixing up the gene pool. I like too the song sung excellently by Cilla Black and which portrays Alfie's ignorance - what's it all about, Alfie?
Remorseless? March 13, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is not a fluffy film like the Jude Law version, Caine's Alfie is far harsher and abrupt however it makes hims a far more honest and iconic character that truely brings the movie into some sort of social context, and the fashions are just as infamous as the film itself
 What's it all about? April 16, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Alfie starts out as a cheeky chap who is revealed to be increasingly morally vacuous as the film goes on. The comedy of a 60s chancer lulls you in to a much more serious plot about the conflict between temptation and responsibility. I have just watched the film for the first time, after renting it from Amazon. The way the film talks about women may shock a contemporary audience, even though the protagonist is obviously portrayed as a chauvinist. Michael Cane plays the lead role in his unique style, with his asides direct to camera being a highlight of the storytelling of the film. This is an enjoyable watch with more substance than it may appear to have at its start. Having said this the message of the film is very much spoon-fed, even force-fed, to its audience.
English Alfie isn't Spanish Don Juan March 11, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well, Alfie is summing up, a nature force, and Nature only exists, but hasn’t any moral. You can think he’s a bad man, but I don’t agree. Spanish archetype of Don Juan yes, is an unmoral, cruel man, as he really doesn’t loves women, mostly he uses them only to show his conquests and is aggressive and violent and at last, unable to love truly nobody. Alfie isn’t so. He’s not very responsible, that is true, but he loves women and loves his child, it’s only he’s unable to take charge; he’s too occupied making love with many women; women which he, at less during some hours is very able to give happiness. This is at last a serious task: not all men can achieve that, although I’m afraid if this film has got some old is because these women from the 1960’s doesn’t exist today. Alfie isn’t immune to bitter reflections, and this movie isn't truly very funny. At last Alfie is very lonely and he feels time doesn’t passes in vain. Superb performance of Michael Caine.
ALFIE starring Michael Caine January 11, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This superb and poignant film directed by Lewis Gilbert shows the 1960`s as if it had been documented in it`s own time capsule. Wonderful performances by all the actors and of course the late Vivien Merchant on top form and the wonderful Alfie Bass playing the part beautifully as the recuperating and unsuspecting husband. British Cinema at it`s best. A definite one to watch for all generations.
Meryl Heasman (songwriter)
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