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Loot went on to win several awards and firmly established Orton's fame.

He sold the film rights for £ 25, 000 although he was certain it would flop.

It did, and Loot on Broadway repeated the failure of Sloane.

But Orton, still on an absolute high, proceeded over the next ten months to revise The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp for the stage as a double called Crimes of Passion ; wrote Funeral Games ; wrote the screenplay Up Against It for the Beatles ; and worked on What the Butler Saw.