I thought the title indicted a thriller. Actually it's more a drama - the producer called it a cross between Alfie and A Kind of Loving and that's not inaccurate. He also called it a sex comedy. There's sex but not a lot of laughs. It's moe social realism.
The star is Victor Henry who was a big stage actor, an angry young man, who was knocked over by a bus in 1972 and went into a coma until he died in 1985. I don't think he's much of a leading man. I'm sure he was a good actor but the role needs charm.
He's a womanising window cleaner - years before Confessions of a Window Cleaner - who kind of falls for Susan George, and she likes him but then at a party she shags his mate. I think he kind of rapes her, yes? Did I understand that?
She gets pregnant and he marries her and she has a mum who hates him so that's the A Kind of Loving About it.
The film looks ugly at least the print I show. Not a comedy really. A drama.
Just not that interesting. Well worn material. George is cute just young.
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