“The sacred cow of ‘good taste’ is in for a battering... Sloane blends morbid humor, an obsession with sex, and an underlying pathos and result is interest that is always held. ”
Mr Sloane (Peter McEnery), a handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, is “picked up” by the lonely middle-aged Kath (Beryl Reid) and invited to stay in her household as a lodger - where he promptly proceeds to manipulate both her and her brother, Ed (Harry Andrews). Based on the first stage play of celebrated and controversial playwrite, Joe Orton, and filmed shortly after his untimely death, Entertaining Mr Sloane boasts a trio of quite excellent performances and manages to highlight Orton’s brilliantly witty dialogue. A truly British curio that only the 60s could have produced.
