CONFESSIONS FROM THE DAVID GALAXY AFFAIR is a quite dreadful addition to the kitchen sink sexploitation movie genre that Britain was well known for in the 1970s. It's particularly bad due to the central casting of the ultra-sleazy Alan Lake as some kind of super stud who has his way with pretty much every woman in the movie; Lake is a truly repulsive character here and you wonder just what the casting director was smoking. The film is generally unappealing and unerotic, with an odd sense of humour that doesn't translate well for the viewer; who thought the scene of Lake farting in bed was funny? The pseudo-crime storyline is particularly moronic and unending and character actors like Tony Booth and Diana Dors seem faintly desperate by appearing. The one thing this film has going for it is a good supply of attractive women, Mary Millington among them, and of course they do disrobe regularly, but it's hardly a proper movie and these actresses deserved better.

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:

Since having been the getaway driver for an extremely successful robbery,David Galaxy has done everything he can to make sure that he is THE man about town.Galaxy uses his slimy charms to get anything he wants,from getting any girl he wants in his bed,to using his rubbish impressions to make some jealous ex-boyfriends completely forget that they wanted to beat him up!.Unexpectedly one morning,David gets a knock at the door and discovers that there are two police men waiting outside,who say that a witness has come forward,who claims that they saw David murder someone..

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.

Final view on the film:

A surprisingly pretty watchable exploitation film,with a good,greasy lead performance from Lake.

This was made at a time when attendance at cinemas was plummeting and there was a duopoly of Rank and ABC.They were both desperate for British films to fulfil their quota requirements that they would show feeble sex comedies like this.There is the pleasure of spotting British character actors,such as Ballard Berkeley,taking the money and running.