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). 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. 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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