Rhubarb (1969 film) Rhubarb (1969 film) Rhubarb was a 1969 British short film written and directed by Eric Sykes, starring Sykes and Harry Secombe. The dialogue consisted entirely of repetitions of the word ""rhubarb"", all the characters last names were "Rhubarb", and even the number plates on vehicles were "RHU BAR B". A baby "spoke" by holding a sign with the word ""Rhubarb"" written on it. "Rhubarb" is a radio idiom for unintelligible background speech. Typically extras would mutter the word over and over to provide ambience for a crowd or party scene. In "The Goon Show" the cast was usually only the
Honeymoon with a Stranger Honeymoon with a Stranger Honeymoon with a Stranger is a 1969 American made-for-television mystery-thriller film starring Janet Leigh, Rossano Brazzi, Cesare Danova, Eric Braeden and Barbara Steele. Directed by John Peyser and based on the French play "Piège pour un homme seul" ("Trap for a Lonely Man") by Robert Thomas, the film premiered as the "ABC Movie of the Week" on December 23, 1969. Sandra Latham is an American woman honeymooning with her wealthy new husband Ernesto at his Spanish villa. But the next morning, Sandra awakens only to be confronted with a stranger who insists that he's her husband.