Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974) Movie
The lowest ebb not just of Peter Sellers’ career, or that of director Roy Boulting, once maker of great films like Fame Is The Spur (1947), or even Lila Kedrova’s, nor even of the washed-up British film industry of the ’70s, but possibly of British Culture in its entirety.
A soft-core piece of idiocy that wishes its humor was up to Carry On standards, featuring Sellers in six roles – six! that’s not comic genius, that’s just skimping on the casting budget – including an oh-so-hilarious Hitler.
Set in a high-class Parisan brothel where an English secret agent and an American playboy get the poulains to help them knock off German brass. You know you’re in trouble when the colorful, erotic decorative paintings on the walls are more interesting than what’s going on in front of them.
