For Singles Only
Directed byArthur Dreifuss
Screenplay byHal Collins
Arthur Dreifuss
Story byArthur Hoerl
Albert Derr
Produced bySam Katzman
StarringJohn Saxon
Mary Ann Mobley
Lana Wood
Mark Richman
Milton Berle
CinematographyJohn F. Warren
Edited byBen Lewis
William McMillin
Music byFred Karger
Color processEastmancolor
Production
company
Four-Leaf Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 5, 1968 (1968-06-05)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

For Singles Only is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Arthur Dreifuss and starring John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Lana Wood, Peter Mark Richman and Ann Elder.[1]

Plot

Close friends Anne Carr (Mary Ann Mobley) and Helen Todd (Lana Wood) move into a singles complex where every tenant must be unmarried and under 30.

A couple of neighbors make a wager with bachelor playboy Bret Hendley (John Saxon) that he can't seduce Anne successfully. Bret is too much a gentleman to accept, but when Anne learns the money would pay for Bret's college education, she willingly goes along with a romance.

Mr. Parker (Milton Berle), the building's manager, throws an engagement party for Bret and Anne, then proceeds to evict them from the premises. While they work through their issues, Helen endures a traumatic experience, making her consider giving up men for good.

Cast

Production

Filming started 18 September 1967.[2] It was a rare comedy role for John Saxon.[3]

Critical reception

A contemporary review in The New York Times by film critic Vincent Canby described the film as "a mindless, witless romantic drama about the mindless, witless young people who live, swim and boogoloo all day in one of those southern California apartment houses restricted to chamois-skinned unmarrieds," adding that the movie "is really an impotent fantasy about the sex life of the young [...] only an elderly movie producer living in southern California could remain alive and yet be so dead to the meaning of the world around him."[4] In her review for AllMovie, critic Sandra Brennan wrote that the film "is basically about the exploitation [of] two naive young women," one of whom "gains firsthand experience with gang rape and suicide."[5]

See also

References

  1. For Singles Only at IMDb
  2. 'Detective' Type Role for Mia Martin, Betty. Los Angeles Times 15 Aug 1967: e12.
  3. Vagg, Stephen (July 29, 2020). "The Top Twelve Stages of Saxon". Filmink.
  4. Canby, Vincent. "Singular California". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  5. Brennan, Sandra. "For Singles Only (1968)". AllMovie. Netaktion LLC. Retrieved 2023-01-06.


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