Bedazzled (1968)
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81% of critics liked it
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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… More 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 wishes--the first of which is squandered when Satan buys Moore an ice cream bar (something over which the two stars quarrel throughout the film). Enticed by living personifications of the Deadly Sins--Raquel Welch, wearing next to nothing, is "Lillian Lust"--Moore allows Satan to grant him his heart's desire, utilizing the magic words, "Julie Andrews!" But with each wish, Satan, being Satan, can't help but gum up the works with a double-cross. The desperate Moore ultimately wishes to be allowed to spend the rest of his life with Eleanor in an environment with no other men--whereupon Satan transforms both Eleanor and Moore into nuns! Finally Satan has a change of heart, allowing Moore and Eleanor to fall in love in more orthodox surroundings and permitting Moore to regain his soul. Satan hopes that God will appreciate this good deed and allow him to re-enter Heaven. But God doesn't buy this; He's satisfied with Satan remaining mankind's "necessary evil". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Stanley Donen
- Written By
- Peter Cook
- Genres
- Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Dec 10, 1967 Wide
- Studio
- Twentieth Century Fox
Critic Reviews
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Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com
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.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Cook and Moore were a perfect team, not only in their verbal delivery and acting styles, but also physically -- and cinematically.
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Mark Bourne, DVDJournal.com
...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.
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Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
Painfully funny.
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Clint Morris, Moviehole
Simply magic......a comedy that will cast a spell on you from start to end
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Cast
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Peter Cook
as George Spiggott
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Dudley Moore
as Stanley Moon
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Eleanor Bron
as Margaret Spencer
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Raquel Welch
as Lillian Lust
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Alba
as Vanity
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Michael Bates
as Inspector Clarke
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Robert Russell
as Anger
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Bernard Spear
as Irving Moses
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Barry Humphries
as Envy
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Parnell McGarry
as Gluttony
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Daniele Noel
as Avarice
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Howard Goorney
as Sloth
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Robin Hawdon
as Randolph
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Michael Trubshawe
as Lord Dowdy
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Evelyn Moore
as Mrs. Wisby
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Charles Lloyd Pack
as Vicar
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Lockwood West
as St. Peter
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Betty Cooper
as Sister Phoebe
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Martin Boddey
as Cardinal
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Erik Chitty
as Seed
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John Steiner
as TV announcer
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Anna Turner
as Shop assistant
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Max Faulkner
as Priest
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Peter Hutchins
as P.C. Roberts
