Alfie (1966 film)

Alfie is a 1966 British romantic comedydrama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Michael Caine. It is an adaptation by Bill Naughton of his own novel and play of the same name. The film was released by Paramount Pictures.

Handsome Cockney chauffeur Alfie Elkins Michael Caine enjoys the favors of women, while avoiding any commitment. He ends an affair with a married woman, Siddie Millicent Martin, just as he gets his submissive single girlfriend, Gilda Julia Foster, pregnant. Although Alfie refuses to marry Gilda and cheats on her constantly, Gilda decides to have the child, a boy named Malcolm, and keep him rather than give him up for adoption. Over time, Alfie becomes attached to his son, but his unwillingness to commit to Gilda causes her to break up with him and instead marry Humphrey Graham Stark, a kindly bus conductor who loves her and is willing to accept Malcolm as his own son. She also bars Alfie from any further contact with Malcolm, forcing Alfie to watch from a distance as Humphrey steps into his fatherly role. When a health check reveals Alfie has tubercular shadows on his lungs, the diagnosis, combined with his separation from his son, leads him to have a brief mental breakdown.Alfie spends time in a convalescent home, where he befriends a fellow patient named Harry Alfie Bass, a family man devoted to his frumpy wife Lily Vivien Merchant. When Alfie flippantly suggests that Lily might be cheating on Harry, Harry confronts Alfie about his attitudes and behavior. Alfie is released from the home and meets Ruby Shelley Winters, an older, voluptuous, affluent, and promiscuous American, while freelancing taking holiday photos of tourists near the Tower of London. Alfie returns to the convalescent home to visit Harry, who asks him to give Lily a ride home. Neither Alfie nor Lily initially want to spend time together, but they agree to please Harry, and the ride home turns into a onenight stand. ........

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