{{Short description|1975 British film by Martin Campbell}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Use British English|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = Three for All | image = ThreeforAll.jpg | writer = [[Tudor Gates]]<br>Harold Shampan | starring = [[Adrienne Posta]]<br>Lesley North<br>[[Cheryl Hall]]<br>[[Graham Bonnet]]<br>[[Robert Lindsay (actor)|Robert Lindsay]] | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[Martin Campbell]] | producer = [[Tudor Gates]]<br>Harold Shampan | music = Terry Trower | cinematography = [[Ian Wilson (cinematographer)|Ian Wilson]] | editing = Peter Musgrave | studio = Dejamus | distributor = [[Fox-Rank]] | released = {{Film date|1975|05||UK}} | runtime = 90 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = }}
'''''Three for All''''' is a 1975 British [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Martin Campbell]] and starring [[Adrienne Posta]], [[Robert Lindsay (actor)|Robert Lindsay]], [[Paul Nicholas]], [[Cheryl Hall]], [[Richard Beckinsale]], [[Graham Bonnet]] and [[John Le Mesurier]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Three for All |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150055076 |access-date=5 January 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> It was written by [[Tudor Gates]] and Harold Shampan.
==Plot== A British marketing executive books a British music group named Billy Beethoven for a tour through Spain to promote Spanish tourism but stipulates that the members of the group must adopt a cowboy image as a gimmick, and that their girlfriends will not be coming along because he needs the group to focus on performing.
The girlfriends pool their savings and buy their own tickets to Spain to follow their boyfriends. They ward off the advances of several men, most of them also British tourists, and ultimately catch up with their boyfriends at the end of the tour. However, the manager immediately books the band on another tour in the United States without their girlfriends.
==Cast== {{colbegin}} * [[Adrienne Posta]] as Diane * [[Cheryl Hall]] as Pet * Lesley North as Shelley * [[Paul Nicholas]] as Gary * [[Graham Bonnet]] as Kook * [[Robert Lindsay (actor)|Robert Lindsay]] as Tom * [[Christopher Neil]] as Ricky * [[Richard Beckinsale]] as Jet Bone * [[George Baker (British actor)|George Baker]] as Eddie Boyes * [[Simon Williams (actor)|Simon Williams]] as Harry Bingley * [[Diana Dors]] as Mrs Ball * [[Arthur Mullard]] as Ben * [[John Le Mesurier]] as Mr Gibbons * [[Hattie Jacques]] as security official * [[Roy Kinnear]] as Hounslow Joe * [[Nicholas Young (actor)|Nicholas Young]] as Myron * [[Liz Fraser]] as airport passenger * [[David Kossoff]] as airport passenger * [[Anna Quayle]] as La Pulle * [[Ian Lavender]] as Carlo, Spanish policeman * [[Dandy Nichols]] as Henrietta * [[Edward Woodward]] as roadsweeper * [[Sheila Bernette]] as Rhoda {{colend}}
==Production== The British group [[Showaddywaddy]] appear in the film<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVlraTkPukgC&pg=PT206|title=Robert Lindsay - Letting Go|first=Robert|last=Lindsay|date=11 March 2019|publisher=Thorogood Publishing|via=Google Books}}</ref> performing "The Party" from their eponymous 1974 debut album.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRZAbgqhVLM|title=The Party (Showaddywaddy, 'Three For All' Film, 1975)|last=ShowaddywaddyTunebox|date=23 November 2011|publisher=|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
== Critical reception == ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "A glance at the long list of guest stars confirms that ''Three for All'' was intended as a comedy. So much, unhappily, for intentions. The English abroad, especially the abroad of Costa Brava, and the machinations of PR men, are fair enough targets for comic treatment, but this dull and unimaginative enterprise manages to miss them unerringly with every well-worn gag – the cockney couple abroad who want steak and kidney or cod and chips with a cup of tea, the tourist's conviction that a few phrases make for fluency in a foreign language, the re-modelling of a pop group as glitter cowboys. The lack of comic invention is as much evident in the direction: Diane's rather sedate dance on the table scarcely warrants an arrest, and in a (mercifully) speeded-up sequence, the airport coach stops several times for little Danny's convenience. It is fortunate indeed that there are actors of the calibre of John Le Mesurier, Roy Kinnear et al on hand to inject some professional expertise into the tedium."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1975 |title=Three for All |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305826315 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=42 |issue=492 |pages=144 |id={{ProQuest|1305826315}} }}</ref>
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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0072280}}
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