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Kitchen Sink Cinema

British new-wave films, 1956–1970 — and the world they were made in


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The wider wave

Alfie

1966
The world of this film
London, 1966
The backstreet abortion scene — a year before the 1967 Act.

From the page

Alfie

play, 1963 — by Bill Naughton

The people

director
Lewis Gilbert

What it dramatises

Fashion - female and male clothing and shoes

Sex - infidelity, before marriage, dating

Items marked with a source link are verified against that source; items marked unverified are AI-drafted period colour awaiting a primary source. Dossier assembled from the Kitchen Sink atlas.
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