Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions

The life and early death of Mary Millington remains one of the saddest episodes of British cinema history. A woman whose sexual honesty and openness was abused by business men who viewed her as little more than a cash cow.

This "tribute" has to be watched with open mouth as producer Sullivan uses it to make a quick killing and preach his own self-serving propaganda over someone else's grave. Sex, death and politics don't really go side-by-side. We even have Marie Harper pretending to be Millington in her coffin!

Strangely the MM story is an interesting one with rumours (let us be respectful of the dead) of cocaine running, high ranking prostitution, tax avoidance and hardcore pornography peddling (very illegal in the UK at the time.) There was even a C4 documentary 20 years after her death which uses some of the footage.

Those wanting a sex film will be disappointed. Those that want to know more about the private life of MM will be disappointed (they don't even tell us she was married). Those that enjoy pornographers whining about their experiences and how they are shinning knights who operate at the cutting edge of media freedom will enjoy it though...

Unfortunately they could not let the poor woman rest in peace.They had to try and squeeze or more exploitation film out of her. It seems to be a lot of shots thrown together. It does not know the meaning of the term bad taste.All persons connected with this should have been ashamed of themselves, but I doubt that they did.

This is supposed to be a tribute to Mary Millington released not long after her death. It does tell part of her life. In addition are several interviews with people who either knew or worked with Mary. Plus there is audio from an interview Mary gave although no date for it.

Where it fails is telling only pieces of her life. Not a complete picture. Only snippets of her career. The interviews do give positive opinions but also few details. The weirdest scene is of a coffin with a blonde actress inside playing dead. Why? There are several scenes created for this movie using a blonde actress that only looks like Mary Millington from her hair color. Several scenes inside and outside porn shops and a disco taken again just for this movie.

This fails as a tribute. I doubt Mary herself would have approved of it. While everyone in it had something nice to say about her, they never said much. I would recommend the documentary Respectable, The Mary Millington Story from 2016 over this sad excuse.