Television review: The message is that the slap-and-tickle flicks of the 1970s represented a glorious moment in UK cinema
Television: With one or two caveats, the message is that the slap-and-tickle flicks of the 1970s represented a glorious moment in UK cinemaThe 1970s sex comedy was a peculiarly British institution, fuelled by a mix of Victorian prudishness and the bawdy, end-of-pier tradition that would elsewhere manifest in the Benny Hill Show, the Carry On ... movies and the political career of Boris Johnson.
They certainly helped keep alive an industry that had struggled for relevancy when the rest of British popular culture boomed in the 1960s. Facing an existential threat from television and unable to compete with the glamour of Hollywood, as a new decade dawned, British cinema abandoned costume dramas for the phwoar and the glory of the sex romp.
Chaotic government, constant strikes and the hangover from the optimism of the 1960s had put the country in a parlous state. Amid such sturm und drang, it was little wonder punters would flock to titillating distractions such as Adventures of a Taxi Driver and Confession of a Window Cleaner. “People like to laugh at sex, they like to laugh at nudity,” recalls Robin Askwith, the likely lad star of Confessions of a Window Cleaner. “They want it to be taken less seriously.”
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