The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
- Starring:
- Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Richard Lester
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13
Synopsis of The Bed Sitting Room
The specter of atomic warfare raises its head once again in this bizarre 1969 black comedy, directed by Richard Lester and hatched from the mind of twisted British comic Spike Milligan. England lays in ruins after World War III, and a number of dazed survivors try to carry on as if nothing is wrong, even when one woman (Rita Tushingham) announces that she is seventeen months pregnant, and others begin to mutate into parrots, wardrobes, and bed-sitting rooms. The often slapstick comedy provides a surreal foreground for the bleak, devastated settings, portions of which were filmed in actual, environmentally blasted industrial areas in Wales. The comedy duo of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook appear as hapless government officials, while Marty Feldman makes his screen debut in a film that could best be described as England's answer to Dr. Strangelove. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Bed Sitting Room
- Rita Tushingham - Penelope
- Peter Cook - Inspector
- Spike Milligan - Mate
- Roy Kinnear - Plastic Mac Man
- Arthur Lowe - Father
- Dandy Nichols - Ethyl Shroake
- Gordon Rollings - Patient
- Ron Moody - Dwarf
- Marty Feldman
- Ralph Richardson - Lord Fortnum
- Dudley Moore - Sergeant
- Michael Hordern - Blues Martin
- Richard Warwick - Allan
- Mona Washbourne - Mother
- Henry Woolf - Electricity Man
- Ronald Fraser - Field Marshall Sergeant
- Harry Secombe
- Frank Thornton - BBC Man
- Director(s):
- Richard Lester
- Writer(s):
- John Antrobus, Charles Wood, Spike Milligan
- Producer(s):
- Oscar Lewenstein, Richard Lester
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13(Questionable for Children, Sexual Situations, Mild Language)
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