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<div>{{short description|1979 British sexploitation comedy film directed by Willy Roe}}<br />
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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair<br />
| director = [[Willy Roe]]<br />
| producer = [[Willy Roe]]<br>[[David Sullivan (businessman)|David Sullivan]] (executive producer) <br />
| writer = [[Joe Ireland]]<br />
| starring = Alan Lake<br>Glynn Edwards<br>Mary Millington<br />
| music = [[David Whitaker (composer)|David Whitaker]]<br />
| cinematography = Douglas Hill<br />
| editing = [[Jim Connock]]<br />
| studio = Roldvale Productions<br />
| distributor = Roldvale Productions<br />
| released = June 1979<br />
| runtime = 96 minutes<br />
| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair''''' (UK re-release title: ''Star Sex'') is a 1979 [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[sexploitation]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Willy Roe]] and starring [[Alan Lake]], [[Glynn Edwards]], [[Mary Millington]], [[Bernie Winters]], [[Diana Dors]] and [[Antony Booth]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/3714|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114010520/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/3714|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-14|title=Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979)|newspaper=BFI|access-date=2017-01-09}}</ref><br />
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It was not part of the ''Confessions'' series of films from [[Columbia Pictures]] that began in 1974 with ''[[Confessions of a Window Cleaner]]'', but it was hoped that it would benefit commercially from the similarity of title.<ref>{{cite book|title=British Stars and Stardom: From Alma Taylor to Sean Connery|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vxmQJRr0vL8C|year=2001|publisher=Manchester University Press|first=Bruce|last=Babington|isbn=9780719058417|page=211}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
A [[playboy (lifestyle)|playboy]] [[astrologer]] has to prove an [[alibi]] to police for a robbery five years before.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Alan Lake]] - David Galaxy<br />
* [[Glynn Edwards]] - Chief Inspector Evans<br />
* [[Mary Millington]] - Millicent Cumming<br />
* [[Bernie Winters]] - Mr. Pringle<br />
* [[Antony Booth]] - Steve<br />
* [[Diana Dors]] - Jenny Stride<br />
* [[Kenny Lynch]] - Joe<br />
* [[Rosemary England]] - Sandra<br />
* [[John Moulder-Brown]] - Sergeant Johnson<br />
* [[Alec Mango]] - Pembleton<br />
* [[Queenie Watts]] - David Galaxy's Mother<br />
* [[Milton Reid]] - Eddie<br />
* [[Sally Faulkner]] - Amanda<br />
* [[Lindy Benson]] - Evelyn<br />
* [[Ballard Berkeley]] - Judge<br />
* [[Cindy Truman]] - Anne<br />
* [[Vicki Scott]] - Charlotte<br />
* [[Maria Parkinson]] - Susan MP<br />
* George Lewis - George<br />
* John M. East - Willie<br />
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==Production==<br />
The film was financed by businessman [[David Sullivan (businessman)|David Sullivan]] to promote the career of Millington, who was his girlfriend at the time.<ref>{{cite book|title=British Comedy Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NHiCiLUC9JsC|first1=I. Q.|last1=Hunter|first2=Laraine|last2=Porter|publisher=Routledge|year=2012|isbn=9780415666671|page=157}}</ref><br />
===Music===<br />
Diana Dors performed the film's theme song over the opening titles.<br />
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==Release==<br />
The film was Sullivan's first [[box-office flop]], being released at a period when soft porn theatrical films were losing their popularity in Britain.<ref>{{cite book|title=Fallen Stars: Tragic Lives and Lost Careers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gb5ci9IF_SMC|first=Julian|last=Upton|publisher=Headpress/Critical Vision|year=2004|isbn=9781900486385|page=43}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'' by Simon Sheridan (fourth edition) (Titan Publishing, London) (2011)<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|0078991}}<br />
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