A Promise of Bed

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 was written by Donald Ford and Derek Ford and comprises a trilogy of separate stories.

A Promise of Bed
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Directed by	Derek Ford
Screenplay by	Donald Ford 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	1969 (1969)
Running time	1h 18m
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£8,500[1]

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."^[3]