Films

The Bed

Director: James Broughton

Starring: Florence Allen, Gavin Arthur, Imogen Cunningham, Kermit Sheets, Roger Somers

Year: 1968

Runtime: 20 mins.

Synopsis: “One of the most lyrically erotic of independent films, The Bed is a merry allegory which celebrates impudently and imaginatively just about everything that could happen in bed (and some things that couldn’t) – birth, young love, loneliness, dreams and death, amid all sorts of hanky-panky from fetishism to plain old lechery.” – LA Free Press (from Canyon Cinema)

DVD: The Films of James Broughton (Facets compilation)

Official Website: None

Reviews: Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray) (review of DVD compilation)

Video: None

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