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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. 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
We start the year with a bang and take a look back at the wacky and absurd 1969 post apocalyptic surreal black comedy, The Bed Sitting Room, directed by Rich...
- 10 min
- 2.5K
- cineXplorers
In 1970 he directed "The Bed Sitting Room," a film which so uncannily predicts the style and manner of Python that we think for a moment we're watching television. The movie's dotty and savage; acerbic and slapstick and quintessentially British. It was also a total disaster at the box office.
Page 1 of 5, 9 total items. Among the ruins of a London devastated by nuclear war, the survivors ineffectually cling to increasingly meaningless social structures. While radioactivity randomly ...
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- Richard Lester
- PG-13
- Rita Tushingham
Bed Sitting Room, The (1969) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Want A Bathroom! In the underground, Father (Arthur Lowe) finds 17-months pregnant Penelope (Rita Tushingham) with Alan (Richard Warwick), then Nurse (Marty Feldman) examines Lord Fortnum (Ralph Richardson), in Richard Lester's post-nuclear-war comedy The Bed Sitting Room, 1969.
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.
