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Stanley Donen's Bedazzled (1967)
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Synopsis: Starring the comedy team of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, BEDAZZLED puts a comic and sacrilegious twist on the Faust legend when a short-order cook named Stanley (Moore) who is in love with an oblivious waitress agrees to give his soul to the devil (Cook) in exchange for seven wishes. But the... Starring the comedy team of Dudley Moore and Peter Cook, BEDAZZLED puts a comic and sacrilegious twist on the Faust legend when a short-order cook named Stanley (Moore) who is in love with an oblivious waitress agrees to give his soul to the devil (Cook) in exchange for seven wishes. But the devil has a warped sense of humor, and Stanley's wishes never turn out the way he expects. As his chance to win the waitress's heart seems to recede further and further away, Stanley's wishes become stranger and more desperate. Though one of many comic films based on Faust, BEDAZZLED stands head and shoulders above the rest with its witty and intelligent screenplay by Peter Cook, hilarious performances by Moore and Cook that demonstrate just why they were such a marvelous comic duo, and the light but keen touch of director Stanley Donen. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Eleanor Bron, Robert Russell
DVD Info
Release:
Apr 3, 2008
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Mono - Spanish
- Stereo - English
- Subtitles - Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Additional Footage - "The Paul Ryan Show"
- Featurettes - "A BEDAZZLED Conversation with Harold Ramis"
- Interviews - Dudley Moore, Peter Cook - Stars
- Trailers - Theatrical Trailer
Reviews
Cook and Moore were a perfect team, not only in their verbal delivery and acting styles, but also physically -- and cinematically.
...the duo's best film, Bedazzled brought the spirit of Swinging London plus impudent pokes at religion, politics, and pop culture itself to their new audiences.
Simply magic......a comedy that will cast a spell on you from start to end
...the film suffers from too many 70s era flourishes...and extreme overlength.
As close as narrative film would ever come to reproducing the Cook and Moore of such stage shows as Beyond the Fringe and Good Evening.
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