Who Was That Guy?

For some reason I couldn't overlook a movie called All Neat With Black Stockings. It was some British movie made a long time ago, back in 1968 when I was a pimply teenager; yes, a long time ago. I'm not sure it ever reached any of my local theatres back then; I definitely don't remember it and I think I would have as it was rather unique and crazy, though, yeah, it was a long time ago, so who's to say for sure?

I watched it last night, finished it this morning. The 'star', Ginger, so named presumably because of his red hair, was a plonker, and though you can find a definition for a plonker via google, the one I found doesn't quite match the one provided by the plonker in this movie when he described himself. According to him, it's a guy who shares a muffin with his mates. The muffin being a bird, or well, more formally, a girl. The girls in this movie were quite easily seduced by this plonker, and in most cases didn't seem to object to being shared. If you're wondering, it wasn't some threeway scenario, more a case of, well I'm done with her, so you can have a go.... Of course Ginger ultimately had to meet some muffin (a quite lovely Susan George) that would cause our hero to question his plonking ways. Well, (I might be spoiling here...), ultimately she 'accidentally' gets plonked, as the mate that plonks her thinks it's all the same as usual and tells her so, and she falls for it only to, well, start crying, be pregnant, and cause Ginger to decide it was his fault so he's got to marry her, because he really loves her, sort of... They go on a honeymoon and some photographs of the excursion make the final cut that are quite artistic. There were other artistic elements scattered throughout... In the end though, Ginger really can't quite seem to change his ways, and it ends with him being cheeky with some muffin waitress in a lunchroom. The waitress smiles at him when she calls him cheeky.

Besides Susan George, I sort of recognised one other actor, one "Harry Towb", but I can't say what I know him from. There was a cast of twenty or thirty quirky characters, all of them fantastic in there own way, and I was so impressed with the guy playing Ginger, (Victor Henry), that I wondered why I'd never seen him in anything. I guessed maybe he was more of a stage actor, and indeed he was, but it turned out that in 1972 he was hit by a car and spent about 13 years in a coma before he died. Rather a sad end, I'd say. Wikipedia indicates there were three other movies he appeared in. I might need to search for them... One is The Sorcerers starring Boris Karloff. Another, Privilege has him listed low in the credits so he may not've been on screen long enough, but it's described as a musical science fiction comedy drama starring Paul Jones, the singer from Manfred Mann, so may be worth pursuing on its own.