[Inspector Abberline]

Have you ever wondered what a British sex comedy would be like if it was directed by someone like Ken Loach, no neither have
I,but if the Socialist misery guts ever did it would probably resemble something like Pete Walkers Cool It Carol from 1970.I was only really familiar with Mr Walkers grimy British horror movies and of course these are full of sexually repressed nutters eating ,beating and generally being beastly to the likes of Manuel from Fawlty Towers and and PC Rosie from err Rosie. But had not really paid any attention to the likes of his Four Dimensions of Greta (1972) and Tiffany Jones (1973) . Cool It, Carol! (1970) was apparently based on a true life story that used to emblazon the front covers of the tabloids on a Sunday morning, you know the type of thing, Vicar marries goat ,my hamster eat Freddie Starr that kind of thing.Robin Askwith and Janet Lynn escape there boring hum drum existence, he a butchers delivery driver and she a petrol pump attendant..(remember them),and while she was a winner in a local beauty pageant the most exciting thing Askwith character sees is his employers son chop his finger off,( well it is a Pete Walker film)..So off they run to the big city of London, which isn't so much paved with gold but pimps ,pornographers and dirty old men, in fact they do not seem to come across any one who isn't in the smut game one way or another. Any how they become rich and infamous. For a sex comedy. I was assuming it was mainly going on the frivolous poster art work on the dvd cover, but it was more like a kitchen sink drama ,that Britain churned out in the 1960s..Still its an interesting time capsule of England back in the early 70s and Robin Askwith and Janet Lynn make for a likeable if naïve couple, also the ending is not what I was expecting, and maybe one of the best film endings since Kaufmans Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) ….