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...Christian Rome, contemporary London will do. Sunning himself in a graveyard one afternoon, Sloane is taken in-in every sense-by Kath (Beryl Reid). She is a bloated harpy who will never need silicone or estrogen. Enter two gentlemen who provide complications and multiply laughter. Kath's father Dadda (Alan Webb) is a senescent buzzard; her brother Ed (Harry Andrews) is a lantern-jawed caricature of muscle-bound Christianity...
Both men take a quick interest in Sloane, Dadda because he recognizes the youth as a wanted murderer, Ed because he likes manly young fellows -preferably draped in leather goods. Kath and Ed engage in a game of sexual cricket, with Sloane as the wicket. As is always the case with such games, it is the bystander who suffers. Dadda ends as a mummy, done in during a Sloane tantrum. The outcome is bigamy, accompanied by rituals that ridicule marriage, family, religion, sex and death...
...found in Mr. Sloane, which comes to Broadway from London's West End. A tall blond young murderer takes lodgings with a middle-aged nymphomaniacal landlady. With lubricous zeal, she and her homosexual brother compete for the lodger's favors. When this impetuous tenant kills cranky old "Dadda," both brother and sister concoct a cover-up story about their father's murder and sign an agreement to share the killer's company...