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Only Two Can Play is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Sidney Gilliat starring Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling and Virginia Maskell. The screenplay was by Bryan Forbes, based on the 1955 novel That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis.
- 11 January 1962
- Leslie Gilliat
Only Two Can Play: Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Kenneth Griffith. A frustrated librarian (Sellers) in Swansea, Wales is torn between his wife Jean (Markell) and a glamorous married woman, Liz (Zetterling), who wants to have an affair.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Sidney Gilliat
- 1962-03-20
Only Two Can Play (1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Only Two Can Play. With an unsatisfying home life and career, librarian John Lewis (Peter Sellers) spends most of his time daydreaming of illicit affairs with attractive women.
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- Peter Sellers
- Sidney Gilliat
- British Lion Film Corporation
A Welsh librarian fed up with his meager, married existence meets a beautiful woman with whom he tries to consummate an affair.
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1962 · 1 hr 47 min. TV-PG. Comedy · Drama. Bored with his wife and annoyed with his kids, a Welsh librarian dreams of having an affair when the wife of a local bigwig walks into his life. Starring: Peter Sellers Mai Zetterling Virginia Maskell Richard Attenborough Kenneth Griffith. Directed by: Sidney Gilliat.
Welsh librarian John Lewis (Peter Sellers), unhappily married to Jean Lewis (Virginia Maskell), falls in love with the glamorous Elizabeth Gruffydd Williams (Mai Zetterling). Zetterling is likewise saddled with a dull spouse, wealthy Vernon Gruffyd-Williams (Raymond Huntley).
