The Window Cleaner (film)

The Window Cleaner is a 1968 British sex comedy short film directed and written by Malcolm Leigh and starring Donald Sumpter, Edina Ronay, and Ann Lancaster.

Plot

David is a window cleaner employed on skyscrapers until he loses his nerve and is relegated to bungalows. Having asked to go back to high buildings, he once again loses his nerve and half-way up a block of flats meets Sharon, whose window he is cleaning. Sharon pulls him into her flat and seduces him. He finds the experience theraputic.

Cast

Donald Sumpter as David
Edina Ronay as Sharon
Ann Lancaster as mother
Jennifer Hill as secretary
Peggy Aitchison as landlady
Fred Griffiths as foreman
Robert Hamilton as workman

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An amorally moral tale of the therapeutic value of sex. The question of whether the young window cleaner's fears are resolved by the experience is left hanging in the air since his possessive mother is still lurking in the background. But it hardly matters, since the film is not in the least convincing, though quite competently directed apart from an excess of distorted images to convey the young man's nightmares of falling from his cradle."