Confessions box set!

[Grant]

see here for all you confessions needs for 15 quid...

http://www.play247.com/play247.asp?p...0658&p=57&g=72

Grant

[Vaughan]

Man, I have not seen these in years and years. How do they play out when watched now? Like a Carry On film?

[the dude]

They were a laugh for us young 'uns going through puberty when channel 5 was launched but I cannot see much entertainment from them now.

[christats]

They were definately of their time,but I still buy them.Already got pop performer and holiday camp and then a couple of weeks ago I noticed the box set.I hope the others are available individually.To see well regarded thespians in bad films gives me a kind of kick.On that subject anyone remember the late 80's TV show SMALLWORLD.Truely awful but I would love to see it on DVD.

[irons]

They've been doing the rounds on the Paramount comedy channel recently, I found that thier still OK to watch. They do run something like the carry on films, kinda stupid but watchable. I'll probably get this, it's a nice price, and anything with Linda Hayden in the buff is a must own.

[Grant]

all those great people are in them too like Le Mesurier, Bob Todd, Liz Fraser etc. At that price I think I'll be having that!

Any chance of 'Adventures of a Taxi Driver' Marc?

(maybe in a taxi-meter style case with furry dice....)

Grant

[Strange2]

The old woman's driving lesson in Confessions of a Driving Instructor is one of the funniest things ever committed to celuloid. Great old films!

[haydw]

I adore,worship even,the CARRY ON...films but the CONFESSIONS.. are quite awful.Definitely worth seeing if you love Brit comedy films but even a young,impressionable haydw couldnt hold back the groans...(erm...in relation to the bad jokes,not a naked Linda Hayden or Lynda Bellingham)

[Dracucarr]

Noticed this last night on Play when searching for Confessions of a Window Cleaner (could only find pop performer and holiday camp which I don't like very much). £15 for 4 films though is an absolute steal even though they don't have any extras, but I love Robin Askwiths performances in these films. He is the strangest ever love god I have ever seen, but this plays on the comedy effect quite well which is an element that films such as Adventures Of A Taxi Driver lacks. Without Askwith I wouldn't even be able to muster a chuckle never mind hysterical fits of giggles that he sometimes induces. Great personality and who can forget him in Queen Kong, Let's Get Laid, Carry on Girls, Bless This House The Movie, Tower of Evil and the great Horror Hospital. I also saw U-571 and noticed his name on the end credits but cannot remember seeing him in it. Does anyone know if this is THE Robin Askwith or somebody with the same name?

[orgasmo]

in an interview I read with him in a few years ago he did mention being in u-571
but I belive all his scenes were cut out.
maybe he upstaged the other actors.

[LoungeLizard]

He was actually 4th choice for Timmy Lea. Dennis Waterman & Nicky Henson both turned it down, and Michael Cashman (!) accepted it but changed his mind (wonder why?).

Richard O'Sullivan may have been a good choice though.

[Dracucarr]

There's only one Timmy Lea in my mind. I'm glad the other's didn't work out. When looking at his earlier films (pre 74) he is pretty subdued and doesn't bring much to his roles. His performances in the Confessions films were OTT and made the films better for it. That's why these work better for me than the other comedy sex films. Although I still prefer the subtler Carry On films. It was Carry On Girls though that gave a hint to the mainstream as to what we could later expect (the Pete Walker films don't count due to the limited audiences that they appealed to)

[gavcrimson]

He’s currently appearing in this play in Oldham, after that he’s apparently putting together a one-man show about Brian Jones.

http://www.coliseum.org.uk/?id=203

[WilsonBros]

We ran into Mr Askwith during the 90's, and he signed a copy of Confessions From A Holiday Camp - "a classic", he remarked whilst doing so, with his tongue firmly in his cheek.

THE WILSON BROS