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Stanley Donen's Bedazzled (1967)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:13
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... 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]
Starring: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Eleanor Bron
Starring: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Eleanor Bron, Robert Russell, Barry Humphries, Michael Bates
Director: Stanley Donen
Director: Stanley Donen
Screenwriter: Peter Cook
Producer: Stanley Donen
Composer: Dudley Moore
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Reviews for Stanley Donen's Bedazzled
I found a lot of it only mildly amusing but always enjoyable, due mostly to the rapport between the mischievous Cook and the sawed-off sad sack Moore.
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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