Experience Preferred... But Not Essential
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
[edit | edit source]Like 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
[edit | edit source]IMDb lists the full cast.[6] The BoxOffice review lists those "starring".[7]
Starring
[edit | edit source]- Elizabeth Edmonds (actress) as Annie
- Sue Wallace as Mavis
- Ron Bain as Mike
Other cast members
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]Variety 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
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Experience Preferred... But Not Essential at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Experience Preferred... But Not Essential at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
