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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
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]
There's a genial gentleman ( Ralph Richardson) who goes about looking into other people's business. There are two policemen ( Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) who operate out of a wrecked Volkswagen suspended from a hot-air balloon. And there's poor Arthur Lowe, who's obsessed by the fear that he'll turn into a bed-sitting room. Well, we all are.
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 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.
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
The Bed-Sitting Room (1969), a post-apocalyptic tale set in London in the aftermath of World War III and based on a play by John Antrobus and Spike Milligan, a London-based comedy star and writer best known for his work on British television (The Goon Show).
