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{{short description|1979 British sexploitation comedy film directed by Willy Roe}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair
| director = [[Willy Roe]]
| producer = [[Willy Roe]]<br>[[David Sullivan (businessman)|David Sullivan]] (executive producer)
| writer = [[Joe Ireland]]
| starring = Alan Lake<br>Glynn Edwards<br>Mary Millington
| music = [[David Whitaker (composer)|David Whitaker]]
| cinematography = Douglas Hill
| editing = [[Jim Connock]]
| studio = Roldvale Productions
| distributor = Roldvale Productions
| released = June 1979
| runtime = 96 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
}}

'''''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>

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>

==Plot==
A [[playboy (lifestyle)|playboy]] [[astrologer]] has to prove an [[alibi]] to police for a robbery five years before.

==Cast==
* [[Alan Lake]] - David Galaxy
* [[Glynn Edwards]] - Chief Inspector Evans
* [[Mary Millington]] - Millicent Cumming
* [[Bernie Winters]] - Mr. Pringle
* [[Antony Booth]] - Steve
* [[Diana Dors]] - Jenny Stride
* [[Kenny Lynch]] - Joe
* [[Rosemary England]] - Sandra
* [[John Moulder-Brown]] - Sergeant Johnson
* [[Alec Mango]] - Pembleton
* [[Queenie Watts]] - David Galaxy's Mother
* [[Milton Reid]] - Eddie
* [[Sally Faulkner]] - Amanda
* [[Lindy Benson]] - Evelyn
* [[Ballard Berkeley]] - Judge
* [[Cindy Truman]] - Anne
* [[Vicki Scott]] - Charlotte
* [[Maria Parkinson]] - Susan MP
* George Lewis - George
* John M. East - Willie

==Production==
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>
===Music===
Diana Dors performed the film's theme song over the opening titles.

==Release==
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>

==References==
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==Further reading==

''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'' by Simon Sheridan (fourth edition) (Titan Publishing, London) (2011)

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0078991}}

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