A Matter of Choice

A Matter of Choice is a 1963 British drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Anthony Steel, Jeanne Moody and Ballard Berkeley.[3] The screenplay concerns two youths who accidentally kill a man.[4]

A Matter of Choice
Directed byVernon Sewell
Written byPaul Ryder
Story byDerren Nesbitt
Vernon Sewell
Produced byGeorge Maynard
StarringAnthony Steel
Jeanne Moody
Ballard Berkeley
CinematographyArthur Lavis
Edited byLee Doig
Music byRobert Sharples (composed & conducted by)
Production
company
Holmwood Productions
Distributed byBritish Lion Films (UK)
Release date
  • 3 July 1963 (1963-07-03) (UK)
Running time
79 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£23,671[2]

It was one of a number of low budget British films Steel made in the 1960s while based in Rome.[5]

Cast

Production

Sewell called the film "a disaster":[6]

I had been working with this man and, I had said, "I won't work with you again." And he writes to me, he says, "Look here, I've got a contract, I can make your story, 'Matter of Choice.'" I said, "No, absolutely out, absolutely out!" He said, "Well, would you sell me the script?" I said, "That, I will do," and I sold him the script. Then his wife rings me up and says, "Vernon, I'm in a desperate position. George can't get the film floated without you, and if he doesn't do it, this is our last chance, he's going to kill himself." I should have said, "Well let him do it" but I didn't. I said, "Well now, OK, if I do this, is it going to be, (this, this, this and this?)?" She said, "Yes, it's all wonderful." Of course when I got to it, the sets were terrible, the whole thing was a disaster, disaster. I don't think it appeared at all, I don't think it was ever shown. The idea of the story was good, but, you see, it had to be - he said he had a find, a wonderful new star, and I gave her the sack the first day, couldn't work. Tony Steel was in it and was pissed all the time. Oh it was a disaster... a bloody awful movie, because the thing was buggered up.

References
  1. "A MATTER OF CHOICE | British Board of Film Classification". Archived from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  2. Petrie, Duncan James (2017). "Bryanston Films : An Experiment in Cooperative Independent Production and Distribution" (PDF). Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: 7. ISSN 1465-3451.
  3. "BFI | Film & TV Database | A MATTER OF CHOICE (1963)". 5 February 2009. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009.
  4. "A Matter of Choice (1963)". Radio Times.
  5. Vagg, Stephen (23 September 2020). "The Emasculation of Anthony Steel: A Cold Streak Saga". Filmink.
  6. Fowler, Roy (8 July 1994). "Vernon Sewell". British Entertainment History Project.


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