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The Bed Sitting Room is a 1969 British black comedy film directed by Richard Lester, starring an ensemble cast of British comic actors, and based on the play of the same name. It was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. [2] The film is an absurdist, post-apocalyptic, satirical black comedy .
Mar 26, 1970 · With Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore, Harry Secombe, Arthur Lowe. In post-nuclear-holocaust England, a handful of bizarre characters struggles on with their lives in the ruins, among endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots.
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- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Richard Lester
- 1970-03-26
A post-apocalyptic comedy by Richard Lester, starring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Ralph Richardson. Ebert praises its Monty Python-like humor and its grim vision of a nuclear war-ravaged Britain.
Dec 13, 2023 · In amongst the rubble, Captain Kak and his fiancee Penelope find Lord Fortnum, who is convinced he's turning into a bed-sitting room. With property prices what they are, Kak should be on to a good thing.
Theatrical trailer of "The Bed Sitting Room" by Richard Lester. Starring Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore, Henry Secombe, Arthur Lowe, Roy Kinnear, Spike Millig...
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The Bedsitting Room is a satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. It began as a one-act play which was first produced on 12 February 1962 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, England.
In a vividly-realised post-apocalyptic London, Mrs Ethel Shroake is crowned Queen, and Lord Fortnum awaits his imminent transformation into a bed sitting room. Meanwhile, seventeen-months pregnant Penelope and her parents leave the safety of their underground carriage to find her a husband, and finally reclaim their baggage.
