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Flipside 001: Bed Sitting Room, The: Dual Format Edition RRP 19.99
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Certificate
1969
Runtime: 91 mins
Colour
UK
Subtitles: English (optional)
Published/distributed by BFI
ISBN/EAN: 5035673011010
Ratio 1.85:1
Price: £10.00
(Including VAT at 20%)
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Flipside 001: Bed Sitting Room, The: Dual Format Edition RRP 19.99
Lester, Richard
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, seventeen-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 en-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.
Extras
* Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
* Original trailer
* Three Bernard Braden 'Now and Then' interviews from 1967: Richard Lester (18 mins); Spike Milligan (41 mins); Peter Cook (31 mins)
* Fully illustrated booklet with film notes, contemporary reviews, original promotional materials and biographies.
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