Alfie Darling
- 1975 film
Comedy featuring Bill Naughton's legendary womaniser Alfie Elkins, who always pays a price for his philandering ways. Also features Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Joan Collins, Annie Ross, Hannah Gordon and more.
Alfie Darling trivia
Alfie Darling was written by Ken Hughes, based on Bill Naughton's book of the same name.
Bill Naughton created the Alfie Elkins character for a BBC radio play, Alfie Elkins And His Little Life, in 1962, which starred Bill Owen. Stage and film adaptations followed, both starring Michael Caine; the film and a novelisation by Naughton were released in 1966. Sequel novel Alfie Darling was published in 1970.
Alfie Darling is not a sequel to the 1966 Alfie feature film, but an adaptation of a book that was a sequel of a novelisation of the story that the first film is based on. It is closer to a reimagining or 'reboot' featuring Naughton's working-class lothario, placing him at a younger age in a later decade, and from a different background, to the Caine incarnation of Alfie.