No Love for Johnnie is a 1961 British drama film in CinemaScope directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Peter Finch.

[1] It was written by Mordecai Richler and Nicholas Phipps based on the 1959 novel No Love for Johnnie by the Labour Member of Parliament Wilfred Fienburgh.

It depicts the disillusionment and cynicism of a rebellious leftist Labour MP, who seeks escape in a relationship with a younger woman.

Johnnie falls in love with a 20-year-old student/model Pauline, and misses making an important speech against the Government's militaristic plans because he is in bed with her.

[5] Film rights were bought by Sydney Box who hired Mordecai Richler to do the script and David Deutsch to produce.

However two weeks into Richler working on a script, Box had a heart attack and retired, and Deutsch moved on to another project.

[6] Box and Thomas had made the Doctor comedies for the Rank Organisation, and used this as leverage to get the studio to finance other projects, such as No Love for Johnnie.

"[10] Thomas says the film "got great notices although it was never a commercial success, didn't even pay for itself... it very much reflected the politics of the day.

Its emphasis, and most of the feeling, are on the side of Johnnie's affair with Pauline, a middle-aged man's efforts to rediscover himself through his love for a twenty-year-old girl. ...

Stanley Holloway's fatherly M.P., with his talk of "the people in the streets", and Donald Pleasence's thin lipped intriguer are undeveloped and consequently improbable characters, though hardly more so than Dennis Price's chic photographer or Fenella Fielding's wild party-giver.