The Road to Ruin, early 60's style, that typically has its cake and eats it by intercutting jaunty excerpts from the Windmill's old repertoire with police inspector Derek Bond investigating the downward plunge of former Windmill Girl Pauline Collins into a "burnt-out husk verging on a nervous breakdown".
Just a couple of years later it would all have looked much sleazier, but the cheerful Eastmancolor photography and beehive hairstyles still evoke the recent Profumo era; although the men are now coarser and more uncouth and elegantly-dressed bohemians like bow-tied lesbian Teddy who hits on Miss Collins are becoming thinner on the ground than louts like Harry Fowler, who petulantly snaps at Linda "Grow up baby, it's been done before. You're nothing special!"
Just a couple of years later it would all have looked much sleazier, but the cheerful Eastmancolor photography and beehive hairstyles still evoke the recent Profumo era; although the men are now coarser and more uncouth and elegantly-dressed bohemians like bow-tied lesbian Teddy who hits on Miss Collins are becoming thinner on the ground than louts like Harry Fowler, who petulantly snaps at Linda "Grow up baby, it's been done before. You're nothing special!"