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Bedazzled [1967]


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Faustian Bargain!!!
Review date: 2008-05-28 Rating: 10 out of 10

One of my favourite films of all time.I hate when people say it's dated, what do you expect, it was made over forty years ago. It,s a classic sixties movie. The soundtrack is also awesome, took me years to find it on CD and the album stands alone as a great piece of jazz. Pete and Dud, the bizness!!!

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Back tom the 70s (60s?)
Review date: 2008-05-08 Rating: 10 out of 10

This was when Pete and Dud (together with That Was The Week That Was)were at the height of their powers. Eleanor Bron is superb, as are Pete and Dud. This was a satire that needed to be made at the time. I can think of small criticisms, but nothing that substantially detracts from the overall performance.
if you can remember this time, buy the DVD.

Classic 60's comedy from Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
Review date: 2008-02-07 Rating: 8 out of 10

Classic 60's comedy from Peter Cook & Dudley Moore with wicked sense of humour and a cracking cameo from Raquel Welsh.

It did NOT fill me with inertia!
Review date: 2007-10-12 Rating: 10 out of 10

This is a wonderfully funny movie, whether you regard it as a collection of sketches or a proper story. Each sequence has some hilarious lines (and Cook's coolly aloof pop star routine is sublime), and is as bright as the awful re-make was dim. Very redolent of the Sixties without, oddly enough, seeming like a dated curiosity. It's just a delightful little bit of mischief.

Genius at work
Review date: 2007-08-23 Rating: 10 out of 10

Although perhaps, filmically, this is a bit of an excuse for a patchwork of (brilliant) verbal and visual gags and funny scenes, the writing is deliciously satirical, the comic partnership is hellishly good, and the whole thing is dazzlingly watchable. Much of it is inspired beyond the norm, and it has a very naughty feel to it. It has to be one of the best comic screenplays ever written, it is that sharp, and Spiggot's prophesy at the end shows how great satire can be more informative and in tune with reality than the voices of our society's own custodians. This role was made for Peter Cook, and his delivery is magnificent. Moore and Bron also shine, but this is Cook's film all the way, (And why not! After all, it was his idea and his screenplay.) that's why this smallish budget British comedy is so important a piece of work. Top 20 all time Brit flick without question.

This is also a very good DVD package befitting its great worth. It comes in one of those nice boxes, brilliantly designed, and has two interesting extras: The best of these is an insightful homage to Cook by a surprisingly sober and conservative sounding Barry Humphries. He pays his respects to Cook by recounting his days spent as a struggling Aussie comedian trying to make it big where it mattered then, in London, and tells of Cook's help in his slow breakthrough to the bigtime. Humphries' thoughtful insights into a man famously difficult to get to really know, are indeed as insightul as anything I've read on him. It just adds to the necessity to own this suberb DVD, showing the very best work of a true genius.

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Actor(s):
Peter Cook
Alba
Raquel Welch
Eleanor Bron
Dudley Moore

Creators:
Peter Cook (Primary Contributor)
Peter Cook (Writer)
Dudley Moore (Primary Contributor)
Dudley Moore (Writer)
Austin Dempster (Cinematographer)
Stanley Donen (Producer)
Richard Marden (Editor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Second Sight Films Ltd.
Manufacturer: Second Sight Films Ltd.
EAN: 5028836030799
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2005-07-25
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Running time: 99 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1968-05-30
Language: English (Original Language)

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