Teenager John Moulder Brown (Mike) gets an attendant's job at a swimming pool and public baths. His co-worker is Jane Asher (Susan) who shows him the ropes which includes performing extra duties as sexual favours for customers. Brown isn't interested in this side of the job but has no choice when pornographic actress Diana Dors shows up! They have a memorable and funny scene together at the baths. Dors also pops up in a porno film at the cinema when Brown sneaks in after following Asher and her fiancé Christopher Sandford (Chris) who go to watch it. What Brown does next is pretty daring! Anyway, this teenager becomes obsessed with his co-worker and we all know that obsession never ends well
It's a film set in a peculiar world – that of the sleazy public bathrooms – that portrays a proportion of the sleaziness that must have actually taken place there. So, it's good for that and we do get some peculiar characters. Karl Michael Vogler's swimming teacher will creep you out as he takes his swimming class of young girls. Whilst I could relate to a teenage boy lusting after a woman older than himself, I couldn't relate to Brown's actions. The cinema scene – no way, buddie – he wouldn't have the confidence. It's completely unrealistic and seems more like the director's fantasy. However, it is at this point that you realize Jane Asher is a complete bitch. So, we have two flawed main characters which is OK but also annoying at times. And the ending – well, it's a downbeat film.
It's a film set in a peculiar world – that of the sleazy public bathrooms – that portrays a proportion of the sleaziness that must have actually taken place there. So, it's good for that and we do get some peculiar characters. Karl Michael Vogler's swimming teacher will creep you out as he takes his swimming class of young girls. Whilst I could relate to a teenage boy lusting after a woman older than himself, I couldn't relate to Brown's actions. The cinema scene – no way, buddie – he wouldn't have the confidence. It's completely unrealistic and seems more like the director's fantasy. However, it is at this point that you realize Jane Asher is a complete bitch. So, we have two flawed main characters which is OK but also annoying at times. And the ending – well, it's a downbeat film.