Post Office Tower

[arriflex]

Hello folks, I'm a new member. Way back in the 1970's I remember seeing a film on a Sunday afternoon in which a group of young people end up in the revolving restaurant of the GPO tower in London. I recall the restaurant starts revolving very fast and the guys and gals are centrifugally pressed against the outer walls. Who knows the name of the film? It isn't Three Hats For Lisa I've checked. I know a lot of footage for Three Hats.. was filmed at the GPO Tower and London Wall, but this sequence of the restaurant revolving very fast is difficult to trace.

[Euryale]

name='arriflex']Hello folks, I'm a new member. Way back in the 1970's I remember seeing a film on a Sunday afternoon in which a group of young people end up in the revolving restaurant of the GPO tower in London. I recall the restaurant starts revolving very fast and the guys and gals are centrifugally pressed against the outer walls. Who knows the name of the film? It isn't Three Hats For Lisa I've checked. I know a lot of footage for Three Hats.. was filmed at the GPO Tower and London Wall, but this sequence of the restaurant revolving very fast is difficult to trace.

Could it be Smashing Time? The tower features in that.





Euryale.

[Euryale]

It was also used in Bedazzled.





Euryale.

[arriflex]

The GPO Tower features in a lot of films but it is the revolving restaurant scene that interests me, however, I will look into those two films you've mentioned. Thanks for the clues.

[wearysloth]

Not Bedazzled in which the GPO Tower is used as a launching point for incontinent pigeons by Peter Cook's Lucifer.



Sounds more like a Goodies or Marty Feldman skit to me...

[Euryale]

name='Euryale']Could it be Smashing Time? The tower features in that.





Euryale.

This may well be the film. I found this description of the relevant scene in a review:



Yvonne�s ruinously expensive party at the PO Tower is attended by the cognoscenti, a dippy John & Yoko � like couple, a small spaced-out Twiggy clone, several gangsters, a Botticelli cherub - haired DJ and many others, who all end up splattered against the walls of the revolving restaurant as it gathers momentum, being put into overdrive by Brenda as revenge on Wabe for making fun of her friend�s fashion sense.



The full article is here:



Modculture News: Reviewed: Smashing Time at the NFT





Euryale.

[arriflex]

Thanks Euryale. Your description has opened my mind. I'm going for this one.