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A 1969 British black comedy film based on a play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus, set in a post-apocalyptic London after a nuclear war. The film features a surreal and absurd plot, a large ensemble cast of comic actors, and references to British culture and history.
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
- 2.6K
- cineXplorers
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.
Feb 21, 2021 · The Bed Sitting Room is a 1969 British 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...
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May 31, 2021 · The Bed Sitting Room ≣ 1969 ≣ Trailer. Comedy | Sci-Fi ≣ United Kingdom≣ Director ≣ Richard Lester≣ Cast ≣ Rita Tushingham | Ralph Richardson | Peter Cook | Harry Secombe | Dudley ...
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.
