Summaries

An irresponsible window cleaner believes he has found true love with a woman he picked up in a tavern.

Ginger, so named for the color of his hair, is a London window washer who is irresponsible in most aspects of his life. He and his best mate Dwyer, who lives in the room next to his in a shabby rooming house, share everything, including their dates, they often switching rooms in the middle of the night without even telling the young women who are already in their respective beds. Ginger is always on the lookout for his next date, whether it be through the windows he washes or already on a date. It is through one of those windows that he meets elderly Gunge, a patient in a hospital whose unique but well kept and spacious apartment Ginger temporarily moves in to. And it is on one of his dates with another woman - Babette - that he meets Carole and Jill. While he asks Carole out as the seemingly more outgoing of the pair, Ginger is really more interested in Jill, he using Carole to get to Jill. In believing that Jill may be the one, Ginger begins to have a more responsible view of life in general, including treating Jill with a certain respect that he has never shown to another woman. But Ginger does not have the best of role models of respect and commitment in his yet again pregnant sister Cecily and her husband Issur's marriage, Issur who is arguably even more irresponsible in marriage and life than him of which Cecily is aware and accepts.—Huggo

Details

Keywords
  • tighty whities
  • briefs
  • white briefs
  • male underwear
  • man wears tighty whities
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
Release date Apr 9, 1969
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United Kingdom
Language English
Filming locations Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Production companies Miron

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 36m
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the 60's. Ginger (Victor Henry) divides his time between picking up the cleaning rag and picking up women in the London pubs. One girl he meets is the pretty and demure Jill (Susan George), who his best friend Dwyer (Jack Shephard) takes a shine to. When Ginger agrees to becomes a caretaker at an old man's mansion and a wild party results, he asks Dwyer to look after Jill. Dwyer takes that invitation as a chance to seduce Jill. Later, when Ginger is informed by Jill that she is pregnant.

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