![]() Lea fusses inconsequentially Rosie, severely pregnant, lounges about the apartment making random food requests which Sidney struggles to fulfill (Fudge! Pineapple!). Lea brings home a giant mounted moose-head, and makes pains to display it while Sidney berates his lack of taste, and Mrs. Occasionally we intrude upon this domestic bliss for some comic shenanigans: Mr. They’re all living under one roof, Britcom-style: Timmy, Sidney, Rosie, and Timmy’s parents (Bill Maynard and Dandy Nichols). Robin Askwith plays Timmy, a young fellow just past the acne, and newly employed to Sidney Noggett (Anthony Booth), the owner of a window cleaning agency whose motto is “We Rub It Better For You.” Philandering Sidney is married to Timmy’s sister Rosie (an acquittably charming Sheila White, thank you very much). #CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANER HOW TO#Yes, Timmy Lea had taught the British film industry how to score with audiences (and then I’m sure he made a single entendre, winked at the camera, and slipped in a puddle while wacky music blared). And I used to love the Destroyer books, and one of the first VHS tapes I ever purchased was Remo Williams, so I guess I better shut up about the Confessions books.Īnyway, Confessions of a Window Cleaner, the (one assumes) eagerly anticipated film adaptation of the Timothy Lea novel, was lensed in 1974 and became the year’s biggest box office hit. #CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANER SERIES#Nineteen seems like a lot, doesn’t it? I mean, four or five, the premise might start to get a wee bit exhausted, but nineteen? This places the series in the category of Harlequin romances, or those action-oriented men’s franchises like The Destroyer, which now fill up many a used bookstore’s shelves one shouldn’t be surprised that Wood actually wrote Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), which is based on The Destroyer series. According to Wikipedia – and I am at its mercy on this subject – there were nineteen Timothy Lea Confessions novels, each detailing the central character’s sexual conquests and comic misadventures. In the words of John Cleese (in The Meaning of Life): “Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex.” Enter Timothy Lea, saving the day with a ladder slung over his shoulder and a dopey caveman grin.Ĭonfessions of a Window Cleaner was based upon a bestseller by “Timothy Lea,” aka journeyman writer Christopher Wood. ![]() There was only solution to shake the British studios out of their doldrums: sex. From Alfred Hitchcock to Powell & Pressburger, the Ealing comedies to kitchen sink dramas, British film was a stalwart warhorse for decades, loved by audiences, esteemed by critics yet by the 70’s, the industry began to sink into a rut. ![]()
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