Clerk John Arnatt as Bill Sheila Manahan as Mrs. Jenkins Richard Attenborough as Probert Howell Evans as Library Policeman (uncredited) Tenniel Evans as Kennedy (uncredited) Laurence Luxton as American GI and Driver (uncredited) Desmond Llewelyn as a Vicar George Woodbridge as a Farmer Production Only Two Can Play was filmed largely in and around Swansea, Amis's model for its setting, Aberdarcy; crowds of both supporters and demonstrators watched filming, and MI5 agents shadowed Zetterling, who was suspected of Communist sympathies. It was released with an X certificate, the first given to a comedy by the British Board of Film Censors, although it includes only a brief glimpse of nudity. Reception The Times reported the film was the third most successful film at the British box office in 1962. Films and Filming said it was the fourth most popular for Britain for the year ended 31 October 1962 after The Guns of Navarone, Dr. No and The Young Ones. It was nominated for Best Film in the 1963 BAFTA awards. New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "ANYBODY who could do to organized labor what Peter Sellers did with his thumping performance of a union leader in the British comedy, "I'm All Right, Jack," is clearly the fellow to do the same thing to sex. And we are pleased to be able to proclaim he does it in his latest side-splitter, Only Two Can Play. With a script by Bryan Forbes that pops perpetually with some of the brightest British quips of modern times, with Sidney Gilliat directing and with a spanking new Mai Zetterling deftly applying the itching-powders as a grandly seductive Eve, Mr. Sellers performs an old Adam that puts all recent seventh-year scratchers in the shade." References External links 1962 films British comedy films British black-and-white films 1962 comedy films British Lion Films films Films based on British novels Films based on works by Kingsley Amis Films directed by Sidney Gilliat Films scored by Richard Rodney Bennett Films set in Wales Films with screenplays by Bryan Forbes 1960s English-language films 1960s British films