Experience Preferred... But Not Essential

Experience Preferred.... But Not Essential is a 1982 British TV film directed by Peter Duffell as part of the First Love series.[1] It is set in a Welsh hotel in 1962 where Annie, a student, arrives to spend the summer as a waitress.[2]

Production

Like the other First Love films, Experience preferred.... was shot "in about twenty days for well under £0.5m"[3] though the overall budget was £505,000.[4] Goldcrest Films invested £480,000 in it and received £728,000 earning them a profit of £248,000.[5]

Cast

Reception

Variety said “generally the picture looks a treat”.[2] Screen International said that UA Classics had great success with Experience Preferred.... But Not Essential in contrast to P'Tang Yang Kipperbang.[1] In 1984, Gavin Millar said in Sight & Sound that it "had them queueing round the block in New York".[3] Looking back in 1987, David Rose (interviewed by Nicolas Kent) in Sight & Sound described it as “one of Channel 4’s first big successes in America”.[7]

References
  1. "Goldcrest sets US First Loves deal". Screen International. No. 530. 11 January 1986. pp. 1–2.
  2. Japa (24 November 1982). "Experience Preferred But Not Essential (British Color)". Variety. p. 14.
  3. Millar, Gavin (1984). "Life before death on television". Sight & Sound. 5 (2): 121.
  4. "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 22.
  5. Eberts, Jake; Illott, Terry (1990). My indecision is final. Faber and Faber. p. 657.
  6. Experience Preferred... But Not Essential (1982) - IMDb, retrieved 14 March 2020
  7. Kent, Nicolas (1987). "Commissioning Editor: David Rose interviewed by Nicolas Kent". Sight & Sound. 56 (4): 260.


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