Alfie (Burt Bacharach song) featured on the October 1966 album release entitled "Chér". Despite the relative failure of the version of "Alfie" cut for the US film release, Cilla Black's UK success with the song had attracted sufficient attention in the US for several American singers besides Cher to cover the song by the time the film "Alfie" opened in the US in August 1966. Two of these covers actually predate the Cher recording although neither was released prior to Cher's, the first evident recording of "Alfie" by an American singer being that cut by Jerry Butler in May 1966 which first appeared as
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