Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) on Netflix
Timothy Lea joins his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett's window cleaning business. Some female customers expect more than clean windows, and Timothy falls for the policewoman Elizabeth Radlett.
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Plot summary
Timothy Lea, an optimistic but clumsy young man, works with his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett, cleaning windows. Rosie, Sidney's wife, is pregnant with their first child, and Sidney has hired Timothy to satisfy the customers, not realizing how awkward he is or that women find him irresistible. Timothy meets the policewoman Elizabeth Radlett and is drawn to her at once. He often calls on his parents, Mr. Lea and Mrs. Lea, whose house is filled with odd items Mr. Lea brings home from the lost property office. On one job, Jacqui Brown flirts with him while her husband is away, and Timothy lets the tap run after spilling detergent, until the kitchen fills with bubbles. He takes Elizabeth to the cinema, where his advances go nowhere.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
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- The source novels benefited from a literary forgery: the notion that Timmy Lea was not a fictional character but the actual author. When novice film producer Greg Smith became interested in adapting them, the hoax was maintained and Lea was credited as the author of the source material, though the real author and screenwriter was Christopher Wood.
- In 1988 Guest said the cheques from Columbia were unbelievable, because the series had been sold to Home Box Office and all through America; the first film made so much money when it came out that Columbia had to pay Corporation Tax for the first time anyone could remember.
- Guest says they saw an awful lot of people for the lead, including Dennis Waterman, before casting Robin Askwith: they needed the cheeky chappie, because it had to be gossamer light, walking the tightrope all the time and never going over into anything icky.
- It has been called perhaps the best known and most successful British sex film of the era, and it was the top-grossing British film of 1974.
- It was not until 1997 that Channel 5 became the first British terrestrial channel to show the entire series of Confessions films.
