# Three for All > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Three_for_All > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Three_for_All.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_for_All > Source revision: 1339477708 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1975 British film by Martin Campbell Three for All Theatrical release poster Directed by Martin Campbell Written by Tudor Gates Harold Shampan Produced by Tudor Gates Harold Shampan Starring Adrienne Posta Lesley North Cheryl Hall Graham Bonnet Robert Lindsay Cinematography Ian Wilson Edited by Peter Musgrave Music by Terry Trower Production company Dejamus Distributed by Fox-Rank Release date May 1975 (1975-05) (UK) Running time 90 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English ***Three for All*** is a 1975 British [musical](/source/Musical_film) [comedy film](/source/Comedy_film) directed by [Martin Campbell](/source/Martin_Campbell) and starring [Adrienne Posta](/source/Adrienne_Posta), [Robert Lindsay](/source/Robert_Lindsay_(actor)), [Paul Nicholas](/source/Paul_Nicholas), [Cheryl Hall](/source/Cheryl_Hall), [Richard Beckinsale](/source/Richard_Beckinsale), [Graham Bonnet](/source/Graham_Bonnet) and [John Le Mesurier](/source/John_Le_Mesurier).[1] It was written by [Tudor Gates](/source/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 - [Adrienne Posta](/source/Adrienne_Posta) as Diane - [Cheryl Hall](/source/Cheryl_Hall) as Pet - Lesley North as Shelley - [Paul Nicholas](/source/Paul_Nicholas) as Gary - [Graham Bonnet](/source/Graham_Bonnet) as Kook - [Robert Lindsay](/source/Robert_Lindsay_(actor)) as Tom - [Christopher Neil](/source/Christopher_Neil) as Ricky - [Richard Beckinsale](/source/Richard_Beckinsale) as Jet Bone - [George Baker](/source/George_Baker_(British_actor)) as Eddie Boyes - [Simon Williams](/source/Simon_Williams_(actor)) as Harry Bingley - [Diana Dors](/source/Diana_Dors) as Mrs Ball - [Arthur Mullard](/source/Arthur_Mullard) as Ben - [John Le Mesurier](/source/John_Le_Mesurier) as Mr Gibbons - [Hattie Jacques](/source/Hattie_Jacques) as security official - [Roy Kinnear](/source/Roy_Kinnear) as Hounslow Joe - [Nicholas Young](/source/Nicholas_Young_(actor)) as Myron - [Liz Fraser](/source/Liz_Fraser) as airport passenger - [David Kossoff](/source/David_Kossoff) as airport passenger - [Anna Quayle](/source/Anna_Quayle) as La Pulle - [Ian Lavender](/source/Ian_Lavender) as Carlo, Spanish policeman - [Dandy Nichols](/source/Dandy_Nichols) as Henrietta - [Edward Woodward](/source/Edward_Woodward) as roadsweeper - [Sheila Bernette](/source/Sheila_Bernette) as Rhoda ## Production The British group [Showaddywaddy](/source/Showaddywaddy) appear in the film[2] performing "The Party" from their eponymous 1974 debut album.[3] ## Critical reception *[The Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/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."[4] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-BFIsearch_1-0)** ["Three for All"](https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150055076). *British Film Institute Collections Search*. Retrieved 5 January 2024. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Lindsay, Robert (11 March 2019). ["Robert Lindsay - Letting Go"](https://books.google.com/books?id=yVlraTkPukgC&pg=PT206). Thorogood Publishing – via Google Books. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ShowaddywaddyTunebox (23 November 2011). ["The Party (Showaddywaddy, 'Three For All' Film, 1975)"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRZAbgqhVLM) – via YouTube.[*[dead YouTube link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*] 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Three for All"](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305826315). *[The Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/The_Monthly_Film_Bulletin)*. **42** (492): 144. 1 January 1975. [ProQuest](/source/ProQuest) [1305826315](https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305826315). ## External links - [*Three for All*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072280/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Martin Campbell Films directed The Sex Thief (1973) Eskimo Nell (1975) Three for All (1975) Intimate Games (1976) Edge of Darkness (1985) Criminal Law (1988) Defenseless (1991) Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) No Escape (1994) GoldenEye (1995) The Mask of Zorro (1998) Vertical Limit (2000) Beyond Borders (2003) The Legend of Zorro (2005) Casino Royale (2006) Edge of Darkness (2010) Green Lantern (2011) The Foreigner (2017) The Protégé (2021) Memory (2022) Dirty Angels (2024) Cleaner (2025) Just Play Dead (TBA) Produced only Black Joy (1977) Scum (1979) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Three for All](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_for_All) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_for_All?action=history)). 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