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Mary Millington was found dead in bed at her home at Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey a month after the film opened. An empty pill bottle and four suicide notes were by her bed. She was just 33. View on the film: Whilst there are sadly not as many great faces from the sitcoms of the time as there was in The Playbirds,the script has thankfully improved a good amount,with the film moving at a surprisingly pleasant pace.I also feel that Odeon Entertainment should again be highly praised for there stunning remastering of this very low-budget (se)xplotation,which probably looks and sounds a lot better than it ever has.Looking at the performances,I feel that Alan Lake does very well at making Galazy into a completely egotistical slime ball,who desperately desirer's to be an early (Pacino) proto-Scarface,who wants anyone that he can get a grip on. Calamity Jane (1953) The opening sequence of this wonderful musical is pure pleasure, as Doris Day rides the Deadwood stage across the screen… Cosh Boy (1952) This less than pleasant crime drama was filmed in post-war London and based on a stage play called Master Crook by… If that sounds tonally all over the shop, The Playbirds just about holds it together through sheer chutzpah. Imagine, if you will, The Sweeney as directed by Pete Walker or Derek Ford, with just a tang of giallo as detective Gavin Campbell (Yes, that’s right – one of ‘Esther’s boys’ from That’s Life) races in hot pursuit of the mystery assailant, not to mention the film’s downbeat ending.
Respectable: The Mary Millington Story’– audio commentary by director Simon Sheridan and the BFI’s Sam Dunn. No such caveats for the last major feature film in this collection, Confessions Of The David Galaxy Affair. In The Playbirds it’s fair to say that Alan Lake’s charisma was put to great use, and he visibly relishes every scene he appears in, with charming brio; by comparison, Confessions Of The David Galaxy Affair is what happens when you give your lead actor free rein for all his most appalling excesses – problematic ain’t the word for some of ‘em – and Millington’s character barely troubles the narrative. A sad, depressing film, released two months prior to Millington’s suicide, and Lake’s last lead role before his tragic death by his own hand in 1984, Confessions Of The David Galaxy Affair is the twitching corpse of the British sex comedy at a time when its star had fallen, Columbia having pulled the plug on the Confessions series a year earlier. One wonders if the cunning stunts of Michael Armstrong or David McGillivray could have salvaged this turkey, but it’s doubtful. It’s sad to see the potential of The Playbirds squandered in this embarrassing dud – even Lake’s missus, the wonderful Diana Dors, phones it in. The Mary Millington Movie Collection’ Limited Edition Blu-Ray Box-Set (Screenbound Pictures) released 22 June 2020. With having been very disappointed with the previous Millington/Sullivan film The Playbirds –which instead of being a fun "light Giallo" was instead a drama that moved at a snails pace.At first I was not that keen at all on watching the film.But due to a friend having kindly let me borrow the films,I felt that I should at least give this one a try. The plot: Being unsuccessful in establishing an alibi, Galaxy receives a five-year jail term, the whole affair apparently a frame-up by an old enemy.
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He tries to obtain alibi’s from an MP he once had an affair with (Maria Parkinson) and from his friend Steve (Anthony Booth from Till Death Us Do Part) who entices Galaxy into seducing beautiful but frigid heiress ( Mary Millington), having placed large bets that Galaxy can bring her to her first-ever orgasm. Confessions Of A Window Cleaner (1974) The first of four saucy comedies adapted from the best-selling novels of Timothy Lea - the pen name of Christopher… NEW Mary Millington’s True Blue Confessions – audio commentary by biographer Simon Sheridan and executive producer David Sullivan. Confessions of a Pixie – an interview with Josie Harrison Marks, the daughter of Come Play With Me’s director George Harrison Marks. Adding extra VAM are Sheridan’s new documentaries, produced specially for this box set, offering a diverse range of fresh new insights into the Mary Millington success story. Harrison Marks’ daughter Josie offers some frank and funny recollections about the Come Play With Me svengali and there’s a surprisingly touching and affecting tribute documentary devoted to Harry Knights, Millington’s ghost-writer for her horny escapades in Whitehouse and Playmates. On a lighter note, photographer George Richardson recalls snapping the iconic photo of Mary outside 10 Downing Street and actress Sally Faulkner ( Doctor Who, Prey, Vampyres, I’m Not Feeling Myself Tonight) is hilariously candid and insightful on her involvement in the British film industry during the sexploitation era. A highlight of the special features in this set is Mary Millington On Location, a time travel capsule which takes the viewer on a ‘then and now’ tour of significant locations in Mary’s life and career, classily narrated by Judy Matheson ( Lust For A Vampire, The Flesh & Blood Show). There’s also the option of commentaries with Sue Longhurst, David Sullivan, Willy Roe and more.
Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979) Throughout the 1970s, the Star Trek television series created by Gene Roddenberry was kept alive in the form of endless repeats demanded…Meanwhile, Steve has concocted his own plot for his friend: he's set David up with Millie, a girl about town notorious for never having had an orgasm, and arranged an underground gambling syndicate on the basis of his astrologer friend being able to end her drought! Additional details UK certificate X Duration 96 minutes UK release Thursday 28th June 1979 Produced Winter 1978 Distributors Come Play With Me opens this box set, and it’s a curio inasmuch as although it’s the film whose title is associated with Millington in the public mindset, thanks to Sullivan’s publicity blitzkrieg – the sex thimble barely appears in the film compared to the screen time devoted to her pulchritudinous co-stars such as Sue Longhurst, Suzy Mandel, Nicola Austine, Suzette Sangalo Bond and the striking Sonia Svenburger. It was not part of the Confessions series of films from Columbia Pictures that began in 1974 with Confessions of a Window Cleaner, but it was hoped that it would benefit commercially from the similarity of title. [2] Plot [ edit ] With the aggressive marketing and publicity skills of Playmates’ proprietor David Sullivan, Millington became a household name, principally through a trilogy of low-budget British films whose audience exceeded that of the ‘dirty mac brigade’ of Soho’s square mile; and it’s these films (restored in all their grubby-turned-pinsharp ‘70s glory) alongside a bountiful bevy of posthumous productions and specially-made bonus documentaries that comprise Screenbound’s gorgeous box set The Mary Millington Movie Collection, curated by Mary’s biographer Simon Sheridan. David Galaxy is a playboy astrologer and effortlessly charming bachelor who beds beautiful women as easily as he reads their fortunes.
The gorgeous and notorious Mary Millington stars alongside a classic British cast including the legendary Diana Dors (Lake’s wife at the time), Bernie Winters (minus Schnorbitz), Kenny Lynch and Queenie Watts. The film was financed by businessman David Sullivan to promote the career of Millington, who was his girlfriend at the time. [3] Music [ edit ] Crazy People (1990) In Tony Bill's humourless satire, Dudley Moore plays Emory Leeson, an advertising copywriter so desperately out of slogans that he…Sutton is just one of a number of stalwarts who grace The Playbirds with their aspect, and with scenes propped up with the likes of Windsor Davies ( It Ain’t Half Hot Mum), Glynn Edwards ( Minder), Kenny Lynch ( Dr Terror’s House of Horrors) and Ballard Berkeley ( Fawlty Towers), there’s something reassuring about these dependable figures propping up this bizarre, and largely successful, mix of sexploitation, crime caper and light-hearted comedy. Things take a dramatic upswing quality-wise in the second film in this collection, 1978’s The Playbirds, which sees Millington receiving a larger slice of the action here. Never the world’s greatest actress, Mary is perfectly cast as the prim and proper policewoman who goes at it with both barrels when chosen to go undercover as a newbie model as part of a police investigation into a series of murders of glamour models, with the prime suspect being self-styled stud and hardman Harry Dougan, played by Alan Lake. It’s notable that the more layers of clothes Mary sheds, the more comfortable she appears before the camera , appropriate for her skill set.
Spending much of his time gambling, drinking, and arranging dubious set-ups with his best friend Steve, he's aghast to find a Chief Inspector from the Metropolitan Police at his penthouse flat door one afternoon, enquiring as to his whereabouts some five years previously. A cold case has been reopened and implicated David in a crime that saw someone murdered, but as long as he has an alibi... Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (UK re-release title: Star Sex) is a 1979 British sexploitation comedy film directed by Willy Roe and starring Alan Lake, Glynn Edwards, Mary Millington, Bernie Winters, Diana Dors and Anthony Booth. [1] First released at the Eros cinema, Piccadilly Circus, in June 1979, this saucy sex comedy was filmed on location across London. It’s a sex comedy that’s neither sexy nor particularly comical, with the blame laying squarely between producer David Sullivan – who supplied the readies – and writer/director George Harrison Marks, the former king of the ‘nudie pics’, who litters the film with antiquarian music hall gags, a cheesy song’n’dance number and mugs shamelessly in the lead role defacto as Cornelius Cornworthy. It’s no Eskimo Nell. Jerk, The (1979) Adopting behaviour patterns reminiscent of Jerry Lewis in his heyday, comedian Steve Martin bulldozed his way through The Jerk, an uneven…Mary on Location – Then and Now’ travelogue revisiting the main locations in Mary’s life and films.
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