The Mary Millington Movie Collection Limited Edition Blu-Ray Box-Set [2020] [2021]
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The Mary Millington Movie Collection Limited Edition Blu-Ray Box-Set [2020] [2021]
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No such caveats for the last major feature film in this collection, Confessions Of The David Galaxy Affair. In The Playbirds it’s fair to say that Alan Lake’s charisma was put to great use, and he visibly relishes every scene he appears in, with charming brio; by comparison, Confessions Of The David Galaxy Affair is what happens when you give your lead actor free rein for all his most appalling excesses – problematic ain’t the word for some of ‘em – and Millington’s character barely troubles the narrative. A sad, depressing film, released two months prior to Millington’s suicide, and Lake’s last lead role before his tragic death by his own hand in 1984, Confessions Of The David Galaxy Affair is the twitching corpse of the British sex comedy at a time when its star had fallen, Columbia having pulled the plug on the Confessions series a year earlier. One wonders if the cunning stunts of Michael Armstrong or David McGillivray could have salvaged this turkey, but it’s doubtful. It’s sad to see the potential of The Playbirds squandered in this embarrassing dud – even Lake’s missus, the wonderful Diana Dors, phones it in. Released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Mary Millington’s death, this special edition Blu-ray box set (limited to 3,000 copies) features Millington’s most glamorous film roles, digitally remastered in high definition, including: Come Play with Me (1977), The Playbirds (1978), Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979), Queen of the Blues (1979), Mary Millington s True Blue Confessions (1980), Mary Millington’s World Striptease Extravaganza (1981) plus Respectable: The Mary Millington Story (2015), an in-depth documentary chronicling her extraordinary life. offers a grab bag of Millington's often provocative work in porn, as well as a documentary about her.
a b c d e f g h i Harrison, Eddie (6 November 2022). " The Playbirds". film-authority.com . Retrieved 8 November 2022. Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (fourth edition) ( Titan Publishing, London) (2011) Disc Four – Queen of the Blues (1979) / Mary Millington’s True Blue Confessions (1980) / Mary Millington’s World Striptease Extrazaganza (1981) NEW Ten Million Dirty Words – a brand new featurette about Harry Knights, the Nottingham-based porn writer who helped create Mary’s image. Respectable: The Mary Millington Story ( 2015), an in-depth documentary chronicling her extraordinary lifeBut as with everything, tastes change in British comedy, and they definitely did in the late-1970s. The fourth and final Confessions film was released in 1977, with the final in the original run of Carry On movies the year after. TV audiences were also huge at this point in time. People were tiring of traipsing out to the local ODEON to watch sex comedies, preferring to stay at home to watch The Benny Hill Show instead.
Aural Sex (07:02 in HD) – Featurette narrated by actress Clyda Rosen, including a complete 1977 erotic audio recording by Mary Millington. To draw out the killer, Holbourne and Morgan decide to send in an undercover policewoman posing as an up-and-coming Playbirds model. Following "auditions" at the Yard, in which female officers are made to perform striptease, Holbourne and Morgan recruit Sergeant Lucy Sheridan, who takes a job at a massage parlour to set up her introduction to Dougan. Ransome, who secretly enjoys pornography that he obtains from Day, tries to slip into a house party being hosted by Dougan and some of the models. He is assumed to be the killer and attempts to flee, but in the ensuing police chase nearly drowns in a pond and is taken to hospital. Hern is arrested for the murders after he is found to have spied on the models during a photo shoot. Hunt, Leon (2013). British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation. Routledge. p.25. ISBN 9781136189364. material. Sheridan's documentary on Millington's life is very well done, managing to not just provide biographical data, but also give a sociopolitical andOf course, Mary was only one of many involved in the 'sexploitation' sex comedies of the 1970s - perhaps the most culturally important, but still one of many. And there are plenty of other great, or not-so-great but similarly important, films in the genre too, which I'd love to celebrate in future. So many! I have plans for something very, very special next year, but you'll just have to wait for now. It's going to be the project I have always wanted to do. Maybe then I can retire from the world of 1970s' sex comedies forever! Each disc is loaded with special features, ranging from audio commentaries to rare adult 8mm films made by Mary Millington before she hit the big time in Come Play With Me. Featurettes include a fascinating interview with director George Harrison Marks’ daughter recalling her father’s career. There’s a little bit of something for everyone across the bonus features, from those wanting behind-the-scenes information to more prurient interests. cultural context to it all, and the actual Millington films he has assembled are often unexpectedly winning in their own weird ways. Technical merits are Ten Million Dirty Words (13:28 in HD) – New featurette about Harry Knights, the writer who helped shape Mary Millington’s career. Come Play With Me opens this box set, and it’s a curio inasmuch as although it’s the film whose title is associated with Millington in the public mindset, thanks to Sullivan’s publicity blitzkrieg – the sex thimble barely appears in the film compared to the screen time devoted to her pulchritudinous co-stars such as Sue Longhurst, Suzy Mandel, Nicola Austine, Suzette Sangalo Bond and the striking Sonia Svenburger.
Screenbound Pictures: Come Play With Me and The Playbirds Restoration Comparison". Blu-ray.com. 1 April 2020 . Retrieved 13 October 2020. Extras: Language(s): English, Interactive Menu, Bonus Footage, Commentary: 'The Playbirds': Simon Sheridan (biographer) and Willy Roe (director); 'Queen of the Blues': Simon Sheridan and Allan Warren (actor); 'Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions': Simon Sheridan and David Sullivan (executive producer); 'Respectable: The Mary Millington Story': Simon Sheridan and Sam Dunn (BFI), Documentaries: 'Ten Million Dirty Words'; 'Mary On Location'; '8mmillington', Interviews: Josie Harrison Marks, Short films: 'Response' (1974), 'Wild Lovers' (1974), 'Party Pieces' (1974), 'Sex Is My Business' (1975); 'Mary Millington's World Striptease Extravaganza' (1981), Trailers what may strike some as a perplexing aspect of this Region A release: it comes from Screenbound Pictures, a label located in England, and its cover The Mary Millington Movie Collection Blu-ray delivers great video and audio in this fan-pleasing Blu-ray release The Playbirds is a 1978 British sexploitation film, made by Irish-born director Willy Roe and starring 1970s pin-up Mary Millington alongside Glynn Edwards, Suzy Mandel and Windsor Davies. It was the official follow-up to Come Play with Me, one of the most successful of the British sex comedies of the 1970s, which also starred Millington.Confessions of a Pixie – an interview with Josie Harrison Marks, the daughter of Come Play With Me’s director George Harrison Marks. If that sounds tonally all over the shop, The Playbirds just about holds it together through sheer chutzpah. Imagine, if you will, The Sweeney as directed by Pete Walker or Derek Ford, with just a tang of giallo as detective Gavin Campbell (Yes, that’s right – one of ‘Esther’s boys’ from That’s Life) races in hot pursuit of the mystery assailant, not to mention the film’s downbeat ending. For more about The Mary Millington Movie Collection and the The Mary Millington Movie Collection Blu-ray release, see the The Mary Millington Movie Collection Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on February 1, 2021 where this Blu-ray release scored 3.5 out of 5.
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