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Confessions Of A Window Cleaner. The optimistic and inept Timothy Lea is freshly employed by his brother-in-law Sid as a window cleaner. With Sid an impending father to be, he looks to...
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The optimistic and inept Timothy Lea is freshly employed by his brother-in-law Sid as a window cleaner. With Sid an impending father to be, he looks to Timmy to fully 'satisfy' his customers, little realising that Timmy's accident prone ways often stretch to his sex life with his clients. Timmy bed hops from unsatisfied housewives to even a lesbian...
The film is essentially an adaptation of a sex novel printed in paperback form. It was adapted for the screen in the 1970s, when the British film industry produced a large number of film adaptations of literary works. Sian Barber cites other examples of this trend: Jane Eyre (1970), Wuthering Heights, Black Beauty (1971), The Go-Between (1971), Kid...
Box office
It has been called, "perhaps the best known and most successful British sex film" of the era, and was the top-grossing British film of 1974.In 1988 Guest said " the cheques which come from Columbia even now are unbelievable on the series, because it was sold to Home Box Office, sold all through America... the others [sequels] made money but Confessions of is the block buster, it made so much money when it came out here that Columbia for the first time anyone could remember here had to pay Cor...
Sequels
As well as its sequels in the Confessions series it spawned another unrelated series of films which began with Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976). The film made Robin Askwith a star in the UK. When the films were originally released they were regarded as very risqué and essentially soft core pornography, owing to the amount of nudity involved – generally female, with Robin Askwith being the only male shown naked. However the sex scenes themselves are more suggestive than explicit, being essen...
Critical
Leon Hunt, examining the reviews of the film series, notes some highlights. Margaret Hinxman, film critic of the Daily Mail, wrote negative and increasingly exasperated reviews for every installment of the Confessions series. She called the original a "puerile sex farce" and compared the rest of them to latrinalia. Alexander Stuart, writing for the magazine Films and Filming. claimed that the films are a real confession, a confession that the British people cannot properly create films, eroti...
Sources
1. Barber, Sian (2013), "The Go Between: The Past, the Present and the 1970s", The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1137305923 2. Barber, Sian (2013), "Confessions of a Window Cleaner: Sex, Class, Popular Taste", The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1137305923 3. Harper, Sue; Smith, Justin (2011), "Boundaries and Taboos", British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boun...
Confessions of a Window Cleaner at IMDbThe Pinnacle of Popular Taste?: The Importance of Confessions of a Window Cleaner, by Sian Barber, Royal Holloway4 ott 2023 · Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) Publication date 1974 Topics Comedy. Confessions of a Window Cleaner Addeddate 2023-10-04 15:28:16 Identifier ...
Confessions of a Window Cleaner is the first film of the 'Confessions' series to be released back in 1974. The film was based on a novel by Christopher Wood and directed by Val Guest....
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Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith) has been employed as a window cleaner by his wheeling-dealing, philandering brother-in-law Sidney Noggett (Anthony Booth), they both live together with Timmy's Dad...
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Having been initiated in sexual matters in a sea of soap suds by one of his lady customers, Timothy frequently finds himself practising his newly-found sexual prowess on the window cleaning clients of Clapham, south London.
