The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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11.09.08
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Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins, amongst endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots. Patriotically singing "God Save Mrs. Etheyl Shroake, Long Live Mrs. Etheyl Shroake", they wander through this surrealistic landscape, forever being warned by the police to "keep moving", and prone to the occasional mutation into a parrot, cupboard, or even, yes, a bed sitting room with "No Wogs" scrawled in the grime on it's windows. In particular, this story revolves around the odd "love story" of a girl who lives with her parents in one compartment of a London Underground train, the commuter in the next compartment, and the doctor they meet after returning above ground in search of a nurse for the heavily pregnant girl.
Movie Tagline:
WE'VE GOT A BOMB ON OUR HANDS ( *BOMB
Title: Bed Sitting Room, The Release Date: September 28, 1969
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy All Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi Languages: English Country: UK Colors: Color Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 6.4 Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.4 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With B
MPAA Rating: R
Director(s):
Richard Lester
Cast:
Rita Tushingham ...Penelope
Ralph Richardson ...Lord Fortnum of Alamein
Peter Cook ...Inspector
Harry Secombe ...Shelter Man
Dudley Moore ...Sergeant
Spike Milligan ...Mate
Michael Hordern ...Bules Martin
Roy Kinnear ...Plastic mac man
Jimmy Edwards ...Nigel
Richard Warwick ...Allan
Arthur Lowe ...Father
Mona Washbourne ...Mother
Ronald Fraser ...The Army
Dandy Nichols ...Mrs Ethel Shroake
Frank Thornton ...The BBC
Henry Woolf ...Electricity man
Ronnie Brody ...Chauffeur (as Ronald J Brody)
Gordon Rollings ...Drip Feed Patient (as Gordon Rawlings)
Jack Shepherd ...Underwater Vicar
Marty Feldman ...Nurse Arthur
Bill Wallis ...The Prime Minister
Ron Brody ...Dwarf
Cecil Cheng ...Chinaman
Edward Malin ...Club Waiter
Chris Konyils ...Policeman
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Richard Lester
Oscar Lewenstein
Roy Stevens
Writer(s):
John Antrobus
John Antrobus
Spike Milligan
Charles Wood
Composer(s):
Ken Thorne
More Movie Taglines:
- WE'VE GOT A BOMB ON OUR HANDS ( *BOMB
- a motion picture so brilliantly funny it goes over most people's heads.)
- "The Great Nuclear Misunderstanding Lasted 2 Minutes And 28 Seconds (including the peace treaty)"
Movie Quote(s):
- Penelope: British? What a lot of use that is - we don't even know who's won the war!
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Inspector: [part of long, mock Churchillian speech] ... the lion shall lie down with the lamb, the goat shall give suck to the tiny bee...
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Sergeant: [at various points in film, shouting out of police car] Keep moving!
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Mate: And in come the three bears. The Daddy Bear said, "Who's been sleeping in my porridge?" - and the mummy bear said, "that's no porridge, that was my wife!"
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Mother: [On being shown her own death certificate by the nurse] Well, you can't argue with it. I thought I was alive, but there it is in black and white... Do I lie down or something?
Movie Trivia:
- The revised National Anthem lyrics are.... 'God save Mrs Ethel Shroake, Long live Mrs Ethel Shroake, God save Mrs Ethel Shroake of 393A High Street, Leytonstone'
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According to Ronnie Barker's authorized biography Jack Shepard is dubbed by Barker.
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Richard Lester is said to have been depressed that many of the outdoor locations were found so quickly, and needed so little modification.
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Ethel Shroake was the Queen's Char Lady.
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It is never explicitly stated who started the war, and who the British were fighting. It was, however, supposedly the shortest war in history.
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Keywords:
Cupboard, Parents, Nurse, Mutation, Parrot ...[more]
Keywords All:
Pregnant, Bed, Birth, Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship, Dog, Nuclear War, Black Comedy, Post Apocalypse, Pregnant Woman, Bulldozer, Igloo, Absurdism, Oddball, Expectant Mother, Weird Pregnancy, Avant Garde, Giving Birth, Absurd Humor, Last Survivor, Radiation, Bicycle, Absurd, Stream Of Consciousness, Cult Favorite, Television, Horse, Hot Air Balloon, Bike, Debris, Queen, Wasteland, Politician, Shoes, Scuba Diving, Dark Comedy, TV Show In Film, Priest, Post Apocalyptic, Haircut, Surrealism, Childbirth, Post War, Experimental Film, Church, Gas Mask, Wrecking Ball, Bomb, Dream Like, Desert, Subway, Escalator, Abstract Art, Balloon, End Of The World, Satire, Psychedelic, Bombing, Pregnancy, Peace Treaty, Based On Play
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Rating: 7.4 out of 10.0 - 63 votes cast total
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