benefited from a combination of adult entertainment with "good clean fun", an appealing cast, and the popularity of the source novels. Critical Leon Hunt, examining the reviews of the film series, notes some highlights. Margaret Hinxman, film critic of the Daily Mail, wrote negative and increasingly exasperated reviews for every installment of the Confessions series. She called the original a "puerile sex farce" and compared the rest of them to latrinalia. Alexander Stuart, writing for the magazine Films and Filming. claimed that the films are a real confession, a confession that the British people cannot properly create films, erotic images, comedy, or anything related to love. The films were unfavourably compared to the Carry On series (1958–1992), which the critics found harmless in comparison. David Robinson, writing for The Times, claimed that the commercial success of the films was based on the sexual infantilism of the viewers. A rare dissenting voice among critics was Virginia Dignam, writing for the Morning Star, who offered positive reviews of the film series. References Sources External links The Pinnacle of Popular Taste?: The Importance of Confessions of a Window Cleaner, by Sian Barber, Royal Holloway 1974 films 1970s sex comedy films Films shot at EMI-Elstree Studios 1970s English-language films Films based on British novels Films directed by Val Guest Films set in Hertfordshire British sex comedy films Films with screenplays by Christopher Wood (writer) 1974 comedy films 1970s British films