![]() ![]() ![]() #CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANER SERIES#What better time to translate a series of sex paperbacks to film? The films greatly benefitted from the relaxation of censorship laws in Britain, and a more sexually permissive culture (as evidenced by the tidal wave of sex-coms coming out of England and Australia at the time). The Confessions movies are based on the novels of Christopher Wood and feature Robin Askwith as the cluelessly promiscuous Timothy Lea and Anthony Booth as Sydney his brother-in-law. ![]() #CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANER FULL#While Benny Hill, Are You Being Served? and Carry On could certainly get risque with their humor - Confessions could get downright graphic, with copious full frontal nudity. However, the Confessions films have one edge over Carry On - and that is a happy willingness to get sleazy. The caliber of acting in Confessions is certainly worse (often dire) and the level of humor is consistently idiotic. Both franchises share a particularly bawdy brand of humor however, Confessions is almost universally regarded as inferior. Any conversation about the Confessions series inevitably leads to a comparison to the Carry On films. ![]()
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