Confessions of a Sex Maniac [The Man Who Couldn’t Get Enough] (1974, Roger Lloyd Pack, Vicki Hodge, Derek Royle) – Classic Movie Review 10,962

‘They said that if he didn’t stop he’d go blind! ‘

Producer-director Alan Birkinshaw’s 1974 British low-budget and tacky sex farce Confessions of a Sex Maniac has a rubbish script and a cast of struggling actors, who deserve better, though its star Roger Lloyd Pack, carries on regardless.

Despite its title, it is no relation to the Confessions series, or to comedy either, as a young slacker breast-fixated architect, Henry Milligan (the 30-year-old Roger Lloyd Pack, Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley), designs a new leisure centre marina that looks like a pair of boobs. But first he has to find the perfect model.

Derek Royle plays Henry’s prominent architect, boss Sir Bernard Storm and Vicki Hodge plays their efficient secretary Hilary. Both these actors, along with Lloyd Pack, do quite well under the circumstances.

The screenplay is by Alan Paz, and the original idea and additional dialogue are by Alan Birkinshaw, who shot much of the film in his own house to save on the budget, apparently not thrilling his wife.

It had an X original rating and and an 18 video rating in 1986 in the UK. In the soft porn department, nudity is generally topless, but with some full frontal shots.

It was originally released as Confessions of a Sex Maniac but, after an injunction by Columbia Pictures, distributors of the Confessions series, it was re-issued as The Man Who Couldn’t Get Enough.

Also in the cast are Vicki Hodge, Derek Royle, Stephanie Marrian, Louise Rush, Candy Baker, Ada Cadell, Cheryl Gilham, Jeanette Marsden, Carole Hayman and John Aston.

It was released by Odeon Entertainment in 2012 in the UK on DVD.

Alan Birkinshaw, runs 81 minutes, is made by Rothernorth, is released by Oppidan (1974) (UK), is written by Alan Paz, is shot by Arthur Lavis, is produced by Alan Birkinshaw, is scored by John Shakespeare and Derek Warne, and is designed by Tessa Davies.

Roger Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 15 January 2014).

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