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Bedazzled (1968)

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Falling somewhere between the Beyond the Fringe school and the Monty Python league, Bedazzled is an irreverent Faust take-off, written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (Moore also composed the music). Moore plays a short-order cook at a London Wimpyburger restaurant, who falls hopelessly in love with waitress Eleanor Bron. About to commit suicide, the broken-hearted Moore is approached by Satan (Peter Cook). The Fallen Angel offers to purchase Moore's soul in exchange for seven

PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.

Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Directed By: Stanley Donen

Written By: Peter Cook

In Theaters: Dec 10, 1967 Wide

On DVD: Apr 3, 2007

Cast

Peter Cook
George Spiggott
Dudley Moore
Stanley Moon
Eleanor Bron
Margaret Spencer
Raquel Welch
Lillian Lust
Alba
Vanity
Michael Bates
Inspector Clarke
Robert Russell
Anger
Bernard Spear
Irving Moses
Barry Humphries
Envy
Parnell McGarry
Gluttony
Daniele Noel
Avarice
Howard Goorney
Sloth
Robin Hawdon
Randolph
Michael Trubshawe
Lord Dowdy
Evelyn Moore
Mrs. Wisby
Charles Lloyd Pack
Vicar
Lockwood West
St. Peter
Betty Cooper
Sister Phoebe
Martin Boddey
Cardinal
Erik Chitty
Seed
John Steiner
TV announcer
Anna Turner
Shop assistant
Max Faulkner
Priest
Peter Hutchins
P.C. Roberts

Critic Reviews for Bedazzled

All Critics (21) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (4) | DVD (3)

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.

March 24, 2009 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Cook and Moore were a perfect team, not only in their verbal delivery and acting styles, but also physically -- and cinematically.

May 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

...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.

April 8, 2007 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com

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Mark Bourne

DVDJournal.com

Painfully funny.

April 21, 2006 Comment

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Simply magic......a comedy that will cast a spell on you from start to end

June 11, 2005 Full Review Source: Moviehole

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Clint Morris

Moviehole

...the film suffers from too many 70s era flourishes...and extreme overlength.

November 30, 2004 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

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.

November 25, 2002 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Who says theology can't be hilarious?

August 30, 2002 Comment

Jeffrey Westhoff

Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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This movie is very funny at first, but the story is very familiar and the jokes wear thin in the middle of the movie. Of course it does have a good cast, and they're good in the movie. There are some good parts, but overall it's not a great movie.

September 5, 2010

AJ Verser

Super Reviewer

despite the feel of a joke too long and a weak ending still a welcome addition to the pantheon of brit comedy. cook has a roaring good time as george spiggot, who is really beezlebub, mr. scratch, mephistopheles, and legion, and he's trying to get back into heaven with every dirty trick he can pull. dudley moore

July 29, 2008