Experience Preferred.... But Not Essential is a 1982 British TV film directed by Peter Duffell as part of the First Love series.[1] It is set in a Welsh hotel in 1962 where Annie, a student, arrives to spend the summer as a waitress.[2]
Production
editLike the other First Love films, Experience preferred.... was shot "in about twenty days for well under £0.5m"[3] though the overall budget was £505,000.[4] Goldcrest Films invested £480,000 in it and received £728,000 earning them a profit of £248,000.[5]
Cast
editIMDb lists the full cast.[6] The BoxOffice review lists those "starring".[7]
Starring
edit- Elizabeth Edmonds (actress) as Annie
- Sue Wallace as Mavis
- Ron Bain as Mike
Other cast members
edit- Geraldine Griffiths as Doreen
- Karen Meagher as Paula
- Maggie Wilkinson as Arlene
- Alun Lewis as Hywel
- Robert Blythe as Ivan
- Roy Heather as Wally
- Peter Doran as Dai
- Arwen Holm as Helen
- Sion Tudor Owen as Nin
- Robert Gwilym as Gareth
- Mostyn Evans as Now
- Paul Haley as Mr. Howard
- Margo Jenkins as Mrs. Howard
- Jerry Brooke as Gaiety M. C.
Reception
editVariety said “generally the picture looks a treat”.[2] Screen International said that UA Classics had great success with Experience Preferred.... But Not Essential in contrast to P'Tang Yang Kipperbang.[1] In 1984, Gavin Millar said in Sight & Sound that it "had them queueing round the block in New York".[3] Looking back in 1987, David Rose (interviewed by Nicolas Kent) in Sight & Sound described it as “one of Channel 4’s first big successes in America”.[8] Rick Marx, writing in BoxOffice, found it "utterly charming" but he found the "Scottish accents ... often almost impossible to interpret".[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Goldcrest sets US First Loves deal". Screen International. No. 530. 11 January 1986. pp. 1–2.
- ^ a b Japa (24 November 1982). "Experience Preferred But Not Essential (British Color)". Variety. p. 14.
- ^ a b Millar, Gavin (1984). "Life before death on television". Sight & Sound. 5 (2): 121.
- ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 22.
- ^ Eberts, Jake; Illott, Terry (1990). My indecision is final. Faber and Faber. p. 657.
- ^ Experience Preferred... But Not Essential (1982) - IMDb, retrieved 14 March 2020
- ^ a b Marx, Rick (1 January 1984). "Reviews: Experience Preferred... But Not Essential". BoxOffice. 120 (1): 52.
- ^ Kent, Nicolas (1987). "Commissioning Editor: David Rose interviewed by Nicolas Kent". Sight & Sound. 56 (4): 260.
External links
edit- Experience Preferred... But Not Essential at IMDb
- Experience Preferred... But Not Essential at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
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