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Entertaining Mr Sloane is a 1970 British black comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox. The screenplay by Clive Exton is based on the 1964 play of the same title by Joe Orton. This was the second adaptation of the play, the first having been developed for British television and broadcast by ITV on 15 July 1968.

Production

Douglas Hickox was a TV commercials director who wanted to get into feature films. He and Doug Kentish set up a company called Canterbury Films which mostly made commercials. They had to buy the rights off a German company. Hickox admitted "Orton is not a subject I would have picked" normally, but "it was my opportunity."

They spent two years trying to raise finance for what would be Canterbury's first feature. Producer Kentish said casting was "difficult" but they could afford to pay the actors "a little more" as there were only four, and there were only a few locations.

Finance was raised in part from Anglo-Amalgamated. It was one of the first of a slate of films under the supervision of Nat Cohen who had set up a unit at EMI Films.

Filming commenced on 18 August 1969, with three weeks of location work and four weeks in the studio. The film was produced at Intertel Studios in Wembley and on location at Brockley, at East Dulwich, and at the lodge in Camberwell Old Cemetery in Honor Oak.

The theme song was sung by Georgie Fame. Fame released it as the B-side of his 1970 single "Somebody Stole My Thunder".

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