Also known as The Bullet Machine, Clegg Private Eye and Harry and the Hookers, Clegg was directed by one of my favorite British scum directors, Lindsay Shonteff, the same man who brought us Devil Doll, The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World, License to Kill, The Fast Kill, The Million Eyes of Sumuru, Night, After Night, After Night, Permissive, Big Zapper, No. 1 of the Secret Service, Licensed to Love and Kill and so many more. He even made two SOV movies, Lipstick and Blood and The Killing Edge. Born in Canada, he went to the UK to make movies and did what he loved until the day that he died, closing out his life on the last day of production of his final film, Angels, Devils, and Men.

Ex-policeman and private detective Harry Clegg (Gilbert Wynne) is hired by Lord Cruickshank (Norman Claridge) after the rich man gets a threat on his life. Clegg may be the hero, but his inner dialogue includes lines like “I’m a private eye. Also a cold-blooded killer, a liar and a thief. My big problem is, I’ve been a loser since the day I was born.”

A sex worker named Suzy the Slag (Gilly Grant, School for Sex) is killing off old rich men with beartraps, guns and her sexual charms. Maybe she’s just mad that the filmmaker chose such a poor and misogynistic name for her. Sometimes she strangles men, lets them get their breath, then drowns them in her bathtub. A former adult actress, Suzy, serves as the killer for Wildman (Gary Hope), who has waited twenty years for his revenge on these rich guys.

Wildman also has five lollipop girls — Susan Killington, Laura Beaumont (who went on to write for Thomas the Train), Hannah Leek, Susan Babbage and Felicity Leach — who may be in their 20s but are dressed like teenagers or younger, all sucking on lollipops more than once in this film.

This isn’t great, but it has a gross charm to it. That’s a compliment.

You can watch this on YouTube.