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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.
- Oscar Lewenstein Productions
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.
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- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Richard Lester
- 1970-03-26
© 2024 Google LLC. 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...
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- 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.
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Among the ruins of a London devastated by nuclear war, the survivors ineffectually cling to increasingly meaningless social structures. While radioactivity randomly transforms various people into...
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- Richard Lester
- PG-13
- Rita Tushingham
The Bed Sitting Room. Summaries. 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.
Featuring. Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore, Harry Secombe. Running time. 91 minutes. This nightmarishly surreal, quintessentially British comedy about everyday life after a ‘nuclear misunderstanding’ was shelved by its bemused backers for over a year.
