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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 · The Bed Sitting Room: Directed by Richard Lester. 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.
There's a pregnant young girl ( Rita Tushingham) who lives with Mum and Dad on the underground train. 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.
R 1 hr 31 min Sep 28th, 1969 Science Fiction, Comedy. In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the...
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.
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 ...
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.
