Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair
Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair 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.
The film was not part of the Confessions series of films from Columbia Pictures that began with Confessions of a Window Cleaner, but it was hoped that it would benefit commercially from the similarity of title.
Plot
A playboy astrologer has to prove an alibi to police for a robbery five years before.Cast
- Alan Lake as David Galaxy
- Glynn Edwards as Chief Inspector Evans
- Mary Millington as Millicent Cumming
- Bernie Winters as Mr. Pringle
- Anthony Booth as Steve
- Diana Dors as Jenny Stride
- Kenny Lynch as Joe
- Rosemary England as Sandra
- John Moulder-Brown as Sergeant Johnson
- Alec Mango as Pembleton
- Queenie Watts as David Galaxy's mother
- Ballard Berkeley as Judge
- Milton Reid as Eddie
- Sally Faulkner as Amanda
- Lindy Benson as Evelyn
- Valerie Minifie as Sylvia
- Pamela Healey as Miss Uncliffe
- Cindy Truman as Anne
- Vicki Scott as Charlotte
- Maria Parkinson as Susan MP
- George Lewis as George
- John M. East as Willie
Production
The film was financed by businessman David Sullivan to promote the career of Millington, who was his girlfriend at the time. Millington died a few weeks after the film's release.Diana Dors performed the film's theme song over the opening titles.
The British Board of Film Classification descrbed the flm as "a piece of self-indulgence" and "an unmannerly and vulgar display".
Release
The film opened in London on 28 June 1979 at the Eros cinema in Piccadilly Circus and at the Classic, Praed Street.The film was Sullivan's first box-office flop, being released at a period when soft porn theatrical films were losing their popularity in Britain.