Okay, so I was crawling around in Youtube initially looking at video of the moon landing in July 1969, then discovered a wonderful channel, Shakespeare and More, then another which then brought me to a third which has a movie I’m cuing up to watch later. It looks like hot stuff!
The Bed Sitting Room (1970)
Directed by Richard Lester
Cast: Arthur Lowe, Michael Hordern, Ralph Richardson, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Marty Feldman
Script by John Antrobus, based on a play he wrote with Spike Milligan
John Hodson at From The Cheap Seats describes it this way:
Focusing on a tiny group of survivors following the “nuclear misunderstanding” that was World War 3, all of two minutes and 28 seconds long “including signing the peace treaty”, we find a disparate cross-section of British society muddling through in a radiation ravaged landscape…and slowly mutating into a parrot (Arthur Lowe in full pompous mode), a wardrobe (the ever delightful Mona Washbourne), a dog (get down Dudley Moore!) plus, best of all, the eponymous bed sitting room (the eye-wateringly wonderful Ralph Richardson, as the unfortunate Lord Fortnum of Alamein).
This is the first of nine parts. Go here to watch parts 2 through 9.
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