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    Playbirds, The (1978)

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    This landmark film is like a feature-length version of The Sweeney with lashings of nudity and sex. The Playbirds was one of a series of films produced by David Sullivan, and its story takes place within a porn empire managed by an apparent Sullivan surrogate (Alan Lake).

    A string of voluptuous centrefold models for a porno magazine are being stalked and strangled by a mad religious sex fiend. While the magazine’s insatiable stud editor continues to ‘audition’ for his next saucy star, a beautiful policewoman (Mary Millington) volunteers to go undercover in the murky underworld of strip clubs and sex dens in pursuit of the murderer.

    The title sequence is an extraordinary document of London’s Soho at the height of its domination by commercial sex, and history has since bestowed a semi-documentary status on the film.

    As actress Pat Astley walks through the district we see an unchanging never-ending background of sex shops, adult cinemas, strip clubs and massage parlours as she makes her way through the streets to her apartment, where she’s subsequently murdered.

    Sgt Lucy Sheridan
    Mary Millington
    Chief Superintendent Jack Holbourne
    Glynn Edwards
    Inspector Harry Morgan
    Gavin Campbell
    Harry Dougan
    Alan Lake
    Assistant Police Commissioner
    Windsor Davies
    Jeremy
    Derren Nesbitt
    Police Doctor
    Kenny Lynch
    Lena Cunningham
    Suzy Mandel
    Hern
    Dudley Sutton
    WPC Andrews
    Penny Spencer
    WPC Taylor
    Susie Silvey
    Doreen
    Pat Astley

    Director
    Willy Roe

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