Adventures of a Private Eye (1977)

A good old 1970s British sex comedy, terrible yet compelling in equal measure. Bob (Christopher Neil) is the assistant to a private detective (Jon Pertwee), when the detective heads off for some extended horizontal jogging with his secretary Bob is told to mind the store and not take on any cases. But when Laura (Suzy Kendall) turns up with a request to get rid of some uncompromising photographs and negatives which she is being blackmailed with and is putting her inheritance in peril, of course Bob takes on the job even though he doesn't really have any idea what he is doing...

He is invited down to the country house where Laura lives with other family members (who are all odd in their own ways). Bob suspects he knows who the blackmailer is though it is quite obvious he is being manipulated by Laura, unfortunately for Bob he gets endlessly distracted by bored housewives and ends up in various uncompromising positions...

A confused film though not unentertaining. It is a saucy sex comedy though the sex is pretty tame and barely erotic (though the film has plenty of nudity) and the comedy is sometimes suspect and often falls flat. It is all very politically incorrect nowadays of course though that is no bad thing. It certainly has plenty of stars in it including Diana Dors, Harry H Corbett, Ian Lavender and Adrienne Posta. Probably the best part of the film is when Bob goes to a police station and he passes Police 5's Shaw Taylor!