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A Promise of Bed

1969 British film by Derek Ford

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.[2] It comprises a trilogy of separate stories.

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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 is 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

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."[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books. ISBN 978-0857682796.
  2. [2]
    "The Shiralee". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  3. [3]
    "The Shiralee". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 37 (432): 35. 1 January 1970 – via ProQuest.


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