The Amorous Milkman

The Amorous Milkman is a 1975 British sex comedy film directed by Derren Nesbitt and starring Julie Ege, Diana Dors and Brendan Price.

In a short space of time he finds himself engaged to two different women, Janice and Margo, on the receiving end of a bad beating from John, the local gangster, whose girlfriend Diana has been two-timing him with Davey, and finally ending up in court on a rape charge when Gerald, an irate husband, comes home unexpectedly and discovers Davey and his wife Rita in a compromising situation.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A vulgar and fragmented odyssey whose victim-hero bears some superficial resemblance to the Malcolm McDowell of A Clockwork Orange [1971].

With its senile depiction of youth, its haggard innuendoes and its bunny club puritanism, the film's only appreciative audience is likely to be survivors from the Doris Day/Rock Hudson cycle of the late Fifties and early Sixties, whose atmosphere it oddly duplicates.

The most significant thing about this bawdy trash is what it says about the state of the British film industry at the time – it's sad that this was the only worthwhile work Diana Dors, Roy Kinnear and other talented actors could find.