A horny plumber, Sid, enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.A horny plumber, Sid, enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.A horny plumber, Sid, enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.
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Concept: Concoct a vile, decrepit story that everyone hates and thinks dire. Make a film called 'Plumber's Mate' out of it, and cram it so full of recognisable, popular names off the tv, that an audience will forgive and forget how atrocious it is.
You can see the flaw straight away.
'Plumber's Mate' (arf!) is so bad. Said tv stalwarts - Lewis, Mullard, Biggins, Rushton - trying to force their bits to be funny is cruel.
What Elaine Paige is doing here (she later tried desperately to pretend she wasn't) is a poser all on it's own.
Sid South (!), an interminably fick Jack-the-lad type, has japes with nightie-clad housewives on his plumbing round.
Anyway, enough of the plot .. In fact, enough of the review! There isn't one good thing about 'Plumber's Mate'. Acting, script, sets, cinematography, music all stink. And it's as funny as spina bifida.
For extra depression, take a look at the INCREDIBLE cast of it's almost-as-horrid predecessor ..
You can see the flaw straight away.
'Plumber's Mate' (arf!) is so bad. Said tv stalwarts - Lewis, Mullard, Biggins, Rushton - trying to force their bits to be funny is cruel.
What Elaine Paige is doing here (she later tried desperately to pretend she wasn't) is a poser all on it's own.
Sid South (!), an interminably fick Jack-the-lad type, has japes with nightie-clad housewives on his plumbing round.
Anyway, enough of the plot .. In fact, enough of the review! There isn't one good thing about 'Plumber's Mate'. Acting, script, sets, cinematography, music all stink. And it's as funny as spina bifida.
For extra depression, take a look at the INCREDIBLE cast of it's almost-as-horrid predecessor ..
For once, a protagonist who doesn't smoke! I swear, they love their cigarettes in Great Britain, and it seemed in every sex comedy, someone is lighting up.
One of the movies from the British-made "Adventures" series, this one is actually a good one. A likeable Lothario plumber named Sid is having trouble paying the bookies and must get 1000 pounds paid to them or "else". In between plumbing jobs, he works for a small-time crime boss who gives him "jobs" to do, and they all go wrong for him. As with all movies in this series, people go naked, but here, there aren't any sex scenes for once, but there are some funny scenes created from the situations the plumber gets into.
Stephen Lewis, who played Inspector Blakey from "On The Buses", has a small role as Sid's boss, the aptly named B.A. Crapper. Yes, this is a very British film, with some people's accents being very difficult to decipher, but it's still worth seeing, although it's probably unavailable in the U.S. If you live in a British Commonwealth country, you'll find it.
One of the movies from the British-made "Adventures" series, this one is actually a good one. A likeable Lothario plumber named Sid is having trouble paying the bookies and must get 1000 pounds paid to them or "else". In between plumbing jobs, he works for a small-time crime boss who gives him "jobs" to do, and they all go wrong for him. As with all movies in this series, people go naked, but here, there aren't any sex scenes for once, but there are some funny scenes created from the situations the plumber gets into.
Stephen Lewis, who played Inspector Blakey from "On The Buses", has a small role as Sid's boss, the aptly named B.A. Crapper. Yes, this is a very British film, with some people's accents being very difficult to decipher, but it's still worth seeing, although it's probably unavailable in the U.S. If you live in a British Commonwealth country, you'll find it.
What an awful piece of work this is. Depressing, grim and dull. The lead actor has zero charisma. Thoroughly unlikeable individual. And was wife beating really a topic for a "comedy" back then ? I get that seeing young women with no clothes on was the attraction back then for most of the audience in the pre dvd/internet days, but even that aspect was dull. Dreadful.
More than adequate soft core pornography with some comedy asides squeezed in and an uninteresting plot of a guy in debt to the mob.
That's really it. The main guy is basically likeable.
That's really it. The main guy is basically likeable.
As you might guess from the title, this movie is about the adventures of a plumber's assistant. In real life it's not exactly a profession where you'd expect a lot of hot sex action, but, of course, it is in movies like this. Aside from the vaguely sexy, plumbing-related hijinks though, there's a genuine plot where our hero "Sid South" (Christopher Neil)owes serious gambling debts to a pair of hulking loan sharks, and gets mixed up with a recently-paroled convict (after he fixes the, um, plumbing of the man's wife)in trying to retrieve a golden toilet seat (or rather a toilet seat with stolen gold concealed in it). There's nothing wrong, of course, with a sex comedy having a plot per se, but this unfortunately is not a very funny one.
These "Adventures of" films are naturally a cheap knock-off of the then-popular "Confessions of" series of sex comedies with Robin Askwith. The whole series is a couple steps down from the genuinely entertaining "Confessions of" series, but this film is also another step or two down from the first film in the series "Adventures of a Taxi Driver". It's a conceit in these films that blue-collar slobs somehow get more sex action than rock stars. The problem is that Neil often acts like a whiny, spoiled rock star and quickly loses the every-man sympathy of the audience. In the opening scene, for instance, he wakes up in his grungy, vermin-infested flat with a pretty nice-looking girl (evidently a one-night stand), who unaccountably considers him to be some kind of catch. But he kicks her to the curb like he's Rod Stewart (actually he leaves her bare-assed naked on the curb after his motorbike rips her dress off).
Neil has zero charisma in his role, but most of the female characters don't really have roles at all. They're all pretty cute, but they put in little more than undraped cameos. Suzy Mandel, for instance, was such an appealing actress that she sometimes appeared on the posters of movies she wasn't even in (like the French film "Pussy Talk"). Later, she went to the US and ended up in a big-budget XXX film,but they actually let her use a body double for the XXX scenes. Anyway, she's pretty much wasted as one of a quartet of "tennis girls" who catch the protagonist after he decides to use the ladies' shower for no real reason while on a job (in real-life he'd probably be reported as a sex pervert, but of course that's not what happens here. . .). The only characters I liked were the male character actors like the two loan sharks and "Sid's" boss. Their lower-class Brit accents were often virtually unintelligible, but they were at least funny.
These "Adventures of" films are naturally a cheap knock-off of the then-popular "Confessions of" series of sex comedies with Robin Askwith. The whole series is a couple steps down from the genuinely entertaining "Confessions of" series, but this film is also another step or two down from the first film in the series "Adventures of a Taxi Driver". It's a conceit in these films that blue-collar slobs somehow get more sex action than rock stars. The problem is that Neil often acts like a whiny, spoiled rock star and quickly loses the every-man sympathy of the audience. In the opening scene, for instance, he wakes up in his grungy, vermin-infested flat with a pretty nice-looking girl (evidently a one-night stand), who unaccountably considers him to be some kind of catch. But he kicks her to the curb like he's Rod Stewart (actually he leaves her bare-assed naked on the curb after his motorbike rips her dress off).
Neil has zero charisma in his role, but most of the female characters don't really have roles at all. They're all pretty cute, but they put in little more than undraped cameos. Suzy Mandel, for instance, was such an appealing actress that she sometimes appeared on the posters of movies she wasn't even in (like the French film "Pussy Talk"). Later, she went to the US and ended up in a big-budget XXX film,but they actually let her use a body double for the XXX scenes. Anyway, she's pretty much wasted as one of a quartet of "tennis girls" who catch the protagonist after he decides to use the ladies' shower for no real reason while on a job (in real-life he'd probably be reported as a sex pervert, but of course that's not what happens here. . .). The only characters I liked were the male character actors like the two loan sharks and "Sid's" boss. Their lower-class Brit accents were often virtually unintelligible, but they were at least funny.
Did you know
- TriviaElaine Paige attempted to have her name removed from the advertisements for the film after she became famous in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita".
- GoofsElaine Paige is shown as playing "Daisy" in the end credits, yet throughout her scenes she is referred to as "Susie".
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Best of the Adventures (1981)
- SoundtracksI'm Flying
Written and Performed by Christopher Neil
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- St Mary Abbots Hospital - demolished, Marloes Road, Kensington, London, England, UK("St Martin's Hospital")
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- 1h 28m(88 min)
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