All Neat in Black Stockings

All Neat in Black Stockings is a 1969 British comedy-drama directed by Christopher Morahan and starring Victor Henry, Susan George and Jack Shepherd.

An easygoing window cleaner who falls in love with a woman he meets in Swinging London.

[3] The movie was the sole lead role for Victor Henry, an acclaimed stage actor who would go into a coma in 1972 after a traffic accident that he would stay in until his death in 1985.

[5] Though Jane Gaskell co-wrote the screenplay, the film plays up Ginger’s bawdy escapades, while excising Jill’s suicide attempt entirely.

One could have done without the old tramp, his Aladdin's cave, and the sentimental subplot in which he figures; but at least all this provides a picaresque framework through which the acid little morality play about innocence deceived (where the innocent becomes the deceiver) rings out all the more wittily and bitterly, beautifully played by Victor Henry and Susan George.

Above all, directing mercifully straight and without a psychedelic in sight, Christopher Morahan allows his excellent supporting cast to make the most of the often witty dialogue.

Particularly good are Jack Shepherd ... Anna Cropper as the bovine Sis,  ... and Clare Kelly as the mother-in-law, somehow managing to make "Will you have a glass of sherry?"

"[11] Variety wrote: "Henry brings some humor and guts to the anti-hero's role and Jack Shepherd, top featured as his mate, is a laconic, personable newcomer.

The shrewish mother (Clare Kelly) is an overwritten role, and others brought in have little substance or relevance to the main issue.

"[12] Leslie Halliwell said: "Modish comedy drama with surface entaintainment of a sort, but no depth"[13] Filmink argued "perhaps it was made a few years too late.