Alfie Darling

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Alfie Darling

Directed by	Ken Hughes
Produced by	Dugald Rankin
Written by	Ken Hughes
Starring	Alan Price Jill Townsend Paul Copley Joan Collins Sheila White (actress) Annie Ross Hannah Gordon Roger Lumont Rula Lenska Minah Bird
Music by	Alan Price
Cinematography	Ousama Rawi
Editing by	John Trumper
Distributed by	Cinema National
Release date(s)	1976
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Preceded by	Alfie (1966 film)
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Alfie Darling (aka Oh, Alfie!) is a 1975 British film. It is the sequel of Alfie (1966 film). This time Alan Price takes over Michael Caine's role of Alfie.

It based on the novel of the same name by Bill Naughton (who wrote the play the first film was based on). ^[1]

[edit] Plot

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After experiencing a failure in the ending of the last film, Alfie - now working as a 1970s' cross London-France HGV driver alongside Bakey (Paul Copley) - decides to get back to his old self. And his new occupation provides new opportunities to do so. The film starts as Bakey drives the truck through customs in France, while Alfie has sex with an English hitchhiker (Vicki Michelle) in the back until the customs' officer catches her topless.

When arriving to their destination, he spots a woman (Jill Townsend) in a sports car. They get in a race until the police breaks it. Alfie soon finds comfort by flirting with the married waitress Louise (Rula Lenska), who takes him to her apartment. During the night, her husband returns from his fishing trip, but outside Bakey horns the truck in advance.

Alfie later catches up with the woman from the race and learns her name is Abby and that she is a sophisticated magazine editor. When she turns him down, he decides he met his match in her. He proceeds to stalk her until another car chase finally leads her to agree to a date. Alas, when Alfie finally gets his wish, he can't perform and just leaves her apartment in anger.

This failure causes him to use his little black book to contact various women who have casual relationship with him. However, some of these encounters lead him to trouble. He faces the consequences of an encounter with Norma (Sheila White) and the wrath of the husband of older Fay (Joan Collins), when said husband discovers Alfie's wallet under their bed.

Meanwhile, after learning Alfie is bed-bound due to back pains, his usually alienated older neighbor, Claire (Annie Ross), suddenly reveals her true emotions by sneaking up into his house and bed to take advantage of his immobile situation. Luckily for him, her sitting astride him fixes his back and so he manages to run away before she manages to make an intimate contact.

With Fay's encouragement, Alfie apologizes to Abby about leaving her apartment like that and asks her for a proper dinner. He tells her what he never says to his lovers - he loves her and wants her to marry him. She agrees. She has to take a quick work related flight, but they schedule for the following day. In the following morning, Alfie awaits her in the airport after missing the news, which announceed her plane got crashed without any survivors. After catching up with that news, Alfie drives up to the crash site and cries over the wreckage.