Movies:
Only Two Can Play
- Rating:
- Genre: Comedy
- Movie Type: Romantic Comedy
- Themes: Extramarital Affairs
- Director: Sidney Gilliat
- Main Cast: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Griffith
- Release Year: 1962
- Country: UK
- Run Time: 106 minutes
Plot
Welsh librarian Peter Sellers, unhappily married to Virginia Maskell, falls in love with glamorous Mai Zetterling. Zetterling is likewise saddled with a dull spouse, wealthy Raymond Huntley. Finding themselves to be kindred spirits, Sellers and Zetterling plan an illicit affair. Alas, none of their carefully calculated schemes for a romantic tryst come to fruition thanks to a series of comic (but utterly credible) complications. Even Zetterling's plans to help Sellers advance himself in the world come acropper due to her would-be lover's ineptitude. Concluding at last that adultery isn't worth the bother, Sellers is relieved that Zetterling has found a new paramour in the person of Dylan Thomas-ish poet Richard Attenborough. Only Two Can Play was based on That Uncertain Feeling, a novel by Kingsley Amis. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideCast
- Peter Sellers - John Lewis
- Mai Zetterling - Elizabeth Gruffydd Williams
- Virginia Maskell - Jean Lewis
- Richard Attenborough - Gareth Probert
- Kenneth Griffith - Jenkins
Maudie Edwards - Mrs. Davies; Frederick Piper - Davies; Graham Stark - Hyman; John Arnatt - Bill; Sheila Manahan - Mrs. Jenkins; John Le Mesurier - Charles Salter; Raymond Huntley - Vernon Gruffyd-Williams; David Davies - Beynon; Meredith Edwards - Clergyman; Eynon Evans - Town Hall Clerk; Marjorie Lawrence - Girl in Bus
