| A Promise of Bed | |
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| Directed by | Derek Ford |
| Produced by | Stanley Long |
| Starring | Victor Spinetti Dennis Waterman John Bird Vanessa Howard |
| Music by | Christos Demetriou John Kongos |
| Production company | Dorak Films |
| Distributed by | Miracle |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 1h 18m |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £8,500 |
This, That and the Other, originally released as A Promise of Bed, is a 1969 British sex comedy directed by Derek Ford and starring Vanda Hudson, Victor Spinetti and John Bird. It comprises a trilogy of separate stories.
Plot
- Story 1. Susan Stress, a sex-crazed actress desperate for a role in a film, lures the producer's son into her apartment by persuading him to take raunchy photographs of her.
- Story 2. George, a depressed loner on the brink of suicide, receives a visit from a young hippy girl, who brings her friends to his apartment after believing it to be the location of a swinging party with a suicide theme.
- Story 3. A lascivious taxi driver takes a mysterious sexy girl to an isolated countryside retreat, and becomes involved in a psychedelic world of bizarre hallucinations.
Cast
- Victor Spinetti as George
- Dennis Waterman as photographer
- John Bird as taxi driver
- Vanessa Howard as Barbara
- Vanda Hudson as Susan Stress
- Gordon Sterne as producer
- Peter Kinsley as Wilbur
- Roy Brannigan as Jeffrey
- Alexandra Bastedo as Angie
- Christopher Mitchell as Carl
- Yutte Stensgaard as taxi girl
- Angela Grant as flower girl
- Valerie Leon as bath girl
- Cleo Goldstein as hands girl
Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A trilogy of slight, titillating sketches, short on comedy but rather better performed than these things usually are. The first story is largely a pretext for Vanda Hudson to appear in diaphanous flimsies, or less; the second, which has black comedy overtones, opens promisingly enough but deteriorates into a dull, drawn-out party scene; and the fantasy finale, with the cabbie continually asking 'What about my fare?' and being regaled by sundry ladies, including bare-breasted swimmers and a stripper covered in black hands which she removes one by one, hardly manages to raise a smile. The one barely memorable moment is provided by Miss Hudson being pursued round an apartment to the strains of the Light Cavalry Overture."
References
- Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books. ISBN 978-0857682796.
- "A Promise of Bed". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- "The Shiralee". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 37 (432): 35. 1 January 1970 – via ProQuest.
External links
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