Christopher Jones (Wild In The Streets) plays college stud(ent) Paxton Quigley who is famous amongst his fraternity brothers for having, "fifty scores before he was a sophomore. When the girls find out they are being two-timed, they lock their boyfriend in … One night, Cathy places three beds in the house attic, which worries Chris about her behaving similarly to their mother. Sunday Times [London, England] 27 Sept. 1970: 27. Three in the Attic Yvette Mimieux Christopher Jones Judy Pace (1968) A campus swinger (Christopher Jones) keeps three girlfriends in the dark; they catch on and try to exhaust him. You must determine which needs saving and remove the other two. It's basically the same solution as our first idea. Mrs. Nazarin recalls that missing Willard student, 198200624, had a girl friend named Tobey. Preliminary box office statistics indicate that its going to be a smash hit. "New Buyer to Bring 'Bulrushes' Back to Life', Learn how and when to remove this template message, 3 in the Attic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), http://alumni.unc.edu/article.aspx?sid=8052, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Alpha Delta Chapter, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Three_in_the_Attic&oldid=1018985930, Films directed by Richard Wilson (director), Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from February 2015, All Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 April 2021, at 22:51. Jones plays Paxton Quigley, a lothario who swears his fidelity to all three of the wome Undoubtedly racy in 1968, it is a late-adolescent male, and possibly female, sexual fantasy that yields an unsurprisingly conservative conclusion: Monogamy really is better. A nosy dorm mate of Tobey's notices the actions of Paxton's captors and reports them to the assistant dean of Fulton. In "Three in the Attic," it would have been good if Quigley had continued to juggle his three girls until some sort of inevitable, embarrassing, comic, tragic conclusion. Much of Three in the Attic was filmed at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. To teach him a lesson he won't forget, the Please see links below: https://bit.ly/2vTlIJX Double Feature! Paxton rebels by going on a hunger strike. The location for the Zeta Chi house is actually the Alpha Delta chapter house of Alpha Tau Omega, located at 303 East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. If the film had been kept on this level, we might have had a near-"The Graduate." See Full Cast + Crew for 3 in the Attic Features Load More Features Movie Reviews Presented by Rotten Tomatoes. A nod to my favorite novel, Mark Z. 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