This is said to be the pre-release version of the film which still has some editing for censor approval, so the director's name (Guy Hamilton) and of the producer have been omitted because it was not Hamilton's approved cut. Oliver Reed carves out his trademark character of ruffian and cad very well but Clifford David, a frequent guest character on TV shows, seems an inadequate lead player as Carson. While the performances are good all around the key scene is a bit absurd. A girl falls from the top of a staircase at a wild beatnik party, but there is no sound when she hits the floor. The revelers don't even see her fall and a few seconds later are trying to steal her clothes because they thought she had passed out. This suggests the fall was added later because even the script (aka The Left Bank) was reviewed by the British Board of Film Censors. It's possible in a previous version she had stripped and passed out but died later. The suggestion of "necrophilia" by some reviews isn't correct, since the party goers all thought she was still alive and Carson finds out she was killed after being hit by a car later on. Hamilton's choice not to have his name included suggests he also didn't like holes edited into the plot's logic or being associated with cheap exploitation genre. His main complaint was that the censors wanted to change parts of the film in ways that had nothing to do with indecency or profanity.
Review of The Party's Over
