Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) "Alfie" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David to promote the 1966 film "Alfie". The song was a major hit for Cilla Black (UK) and Dionne Warwick (US). Although Bacharach has cited "Alfie" as his personal favorite of his compositions, he and Hal David were not eager to write a song to promote the film "Alfie" (a release from Paramount Pictures, which owned Famous Music) when approached by Ed Wolpin of the Composers' Guild. David thought the title character's name pedestrian: "Writing a song about a man called 'Alfie' didn't seem too exciting
Michael Klinger (producer) ended, and reverting the auditorium into its earlier use as a cinema, and using it as a setting for "Secrets of a Windmill Girl" (1966). It was Klinger though who persuaded Tenser to back the first English language feature films of Polish director Roman Polanski. Despite the success of "Repulsion" (1965) and "Cul-de-Sac" (1966), Klinger and Tenser ended their business connection in 1967. Klinger sent the Ted Lewis novel "Jack's Return Home" to director Mike Hodges, asking whether he would be interested in adapting and directing a film version. Hodges agreed. The result, starring Michael Caine, "Get Carter", was released