“I didn’t think much of them at the time.” Robin Askwith, owner of the most famous bare bum in cinema history – his words not mine – is reflecting on the Confessions films. This quartet of “romp-coms” ...

If you were to picture a classic world-cinema location that shimmered with erotic promise, your mind might not immediately turn to the shopping parade on Shenley Road in Borehamwood. But the 1970s was ...