The Bed Sitting Room
A Film by Richard Lester
In a vividly realised post-apocalyptic London, Mrs Ethel Shroake is crowned Queen and Lord Fortnum awaits his imminent transformation into a bedsitting room. Meanwhile, 17-months pregnant Penelope and her parents leave the safety of their underground carriage to find her a husband and finally reclaim their baggage.
Richard Lester’s sharply satirical end-of-the-world comedy is based on a beautifully bittersweet, Goonish script by John Antrobus and Spike Milligan.
“…acerbic and slapstick and quintessentially British.” Roger Ebert.
Format
Special features
- Presented in both high definition and standard definition.
- Original trailer.
- Three Bernard Braden ‘Now and Then’ interviews from 1967: Richard Lester (18 min); Spike Milligan (41 min); Peter Cook (31 min).
- Fully illustrated booklet with film notes, contemporary reviews, original promotional materials and biographies.
Credits
Year
1969
Country
United Kingdom
Product information
Certificate
PG
Colour
Colour
Subtitles
English
Original aspect ratio
1.85:1
DVD region
- 2 Europe (except Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus), Middle East, Egypt, Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Greenland, French Overseas departments and territories
Blu-ray region
- B - Includes most European and Middle-Eastern countries, all of Africa, Australia and New Zealand
Catalogue number
BFIB1101