Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair

1979 British sexploitation comedy film by Willy Roe

Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (also known as The David Galaxy Affair, and for its UK re-release, Star Sex) 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.^[1]

The film was not part of the Confessions series of films from Columbia Pictures that began with Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974), but it was hoped that it would benefit commercially from the similarity of title.^[2]

Plot

A playboy astrologer has to prove an alibi to police for a robbery five years before.

Cast

• Alan Lake – David Galaxy
• Glynn Edwards – Chief Inspector Evans
• Mary Millington – Millicent Cumming
• Bernie Winters – Mr. Pringle
• Anthony Booth – Steve
• Diana Dors – Jenny Stride
• Kenny Lynch – Joe
• Rosemary England – Sandra
• John Moulder-Brown – Sergeant Johnson
• Alec Mango – Pembleton
• Queenie Watts – David Galaxy's mother
• Ballard Berkeley – Judge
• Milton Reid – Eddie
• Sally Faulkner – Amanda
• Lindy Benson – Evelyn
• Valerie Minifie – Sylvia
• Pamela Healey – Miss Uncliffe
• Cindy Truman – Anne
• Vicki Scott – Charlotte
• Maria Parkinson – Susan MP
• George Lewis – George
• John M. East – Willie

Production

The film was financed by businessman David Sullivan to promote the career of Millington, who was his girlfriend at the time.^[3]

Diana Dors performed the film's theme song over the opening titles.

Release

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.^[4]

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "With its barely identifiable semblance of plot, a level of comic invention exemplified by having the hero interrupt his love-making by breaking wind, and a dramatic context that amounts to little but the endless offering and pouring of drinks, this erotic 'thriller' proves squalidly unwatchable."^[5]

References

1. "Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
2. Babington, Bruce (2001). British Stars and Stardom: From Alma Taylor to Sean Connery. Manchester University Press. p. 211. ISBN 9780719058417.
3. Hunter, I. Q.; Porter, Laraine (2012). British Comedy Cinema. Routledge. p. 157. ISBN 9780415666671.
4. Upton, Julian (2004). Fallen Stars: Tragic Lives and Lost Careers. Headpress/Critical Vision. p. 43. ISBN 9781900486385.
5. "Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 46 (540): 168. 1 January 1979 – via ProQuest.

Further reading

Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (fourth edition) (Titan Publishing, London) (2011)

External links

• Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair at IMDb