No Love for Johnnie
No Love for Johnnie is a 1961 British drama film in CinemaScope directed by Ralph Thomas. It is based on the 1959 book of the same title by the Labour Member of Parliament Wilfred Fienburgh, and stars Peter Finch.
Plot
Johnnie Byrne, a cynical and burnt-out Yorkshire Labour MP, whose career has seemingly stalled due to his ostensibly leftist leanings, is re-elected with the victorious Labour Party after a general election. Bitter not to receive an invitation to join the Government, his left-wing wife leaves him, and he accepts an invitation to lead a conspiratorial group of MPs working against the centrist government. Mary, the single woman upstairs, adores him, but they never quite become a couple.
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| author | Mordecai Richler Nicholas Phipps |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Yorkshire |
| director | Ralph Thomas |
| editor | Alfred Roome |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | centrism centrist communism communist constituency labour party deselect deselection of labour mps elections in the united kingdom general election labour party left-wing politics leftist meet prime minister prime minister of the united kingdom single woman |
| musicBy | Malcolm Arnold |
| producer | Betty E. Box Earl St. John |
| productionCompany | Five Star |
| publisher | The Rank Organisation |
| recordedAt | Pinewood Studios |
| theme | independent |