The post-apocalyptic comedy film The Bed Sitting Room has finally been released commercially.
For those who have not heard of the film, it is set after World War III ("The nuclear misunderstanding") a nuclear war which was also the shortest war in history, lasting 2 minutes and 28 seconds (including the signing of the peace treaty).
It deals with the lives of the roughly 20 sole survivors of the war, which are played by some of the great British comics and comic actors, including Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Arthur Lowe, Frank Thornton, Harry Secombe, Marty Feldman, and Spike Milligan, who also co-wrote the original play that the film was based on with John Antrobus.
I have just watched the film and I thought it was brilliant. It is certainly one of the forgotten treasures in British comedy. The ideas in it are typical Milligan. The bed sitting room in question is actual a man who mutates into one because of the nuclear radiation, there's another character who mutates into a cupboard, and the new monarch is Mrs Ethel Shroake of 393A High Street, Leytonstone. Wonderful film.
