''The Amorous Milkman'' is a 1975 British comedy film directed by

Derren Nesbitt Derren Nesbitt (born Derren Michael Horwitz; 19 June 1935) is a British actor. Nesbitt's film career began in the late 1950s, and he also appeared in many television series in the late 1960s into the 1970s. He is known for his role as Major von ...

and starring

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, Diana Dors and

Brendan Price Brendan Price is a British theatre, movie, and television actor. He graduated, winning the prize for outstanding dialect work and began his career in the regional theatres of England. He worked in a number of the major theatres, playing a diver ...

. The plot is about a young milkman who enjoys a number of adventures with bored women on his round. One version of the poster showed a self-satisfied cat licking its lips above the tagline, "If your pussy could only talk."

Plot

Randy milkman Davey ends up delivering more than pints of milk to some of the bored housewives on his round. In a short space of time he finds himself engaged to two different women, Janice and Margo, on the receiving end of a bad beating from John, the local gangster, whose girlfriend Diana has been two-timing him with Davey, and finally ending up in court on a rape charge when Gerald, an irate husband, comes home unexpectedly and discovers Davey and his wife Rita in a compromising situation.

Cast

as Diana * Diana Dors as Rita *

as Davey * Alan Lake as Sandy * Donna Reading as Janice * Nancie Wait as Margo * Bill Fraser as Gerald * Roy Kinnear as Sergeant * Ray Barrett as John * Fred Emney as Magistrate * Patrick Holt as Tom *

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as Counsel * Megs Jenkins as Iris * Arnold Ridley as Cinema Attendant * Sam Kydd as Wilf *

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as Vera * Marianne Morris as Dora (uncredited) *

Hugo Keith-Johnston Colin Keith-Johnston (8 October 1896 - 3 January 1980) was a British actor. Keith-Johnston was born in London, the son of Robert Keith-Johnston and Jessy Macfie, and was a prominent actor of the stage. As well as film appearances, he appeared ...

as Hippy in the Nightclub (uncredited)

Production

It was one of a number of sex comedies featuring Diana Dors.

Critical reception

David Parkinson, the ''

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'' reviewer, wrote: "Brendan Price does his best to rattle his pintas with panache. The most significant thing about this bawdy trash is what it says about the state of the

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at the time – it's sad that this was the only worthwhile work Diana Dors, Roy Kinnear and other talented actors could find"; while

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wrote, "much in the vulgar mode of dozens of ' Confessions', '

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' and ' Up' sex romps of the Seventies, this one-man project (actor Derren Nesbitt wrote, produced and directed it) is a touch above that level, if only because its girls are at least sexy and its veteran cast is full of names who have seen better films and better days."

References

External links

* 1975 films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Derren Nesbitt Fictional milkmen British sex comedy films 1970s sex comedy films 1975 comedy films 1970s British films {{erotic-comedy-film-stub