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. 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 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

 * 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."