Bedazzled (1967)/Bedazzled (2000) [2 Discs]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

When you dance with the devil, you never know what tricks Satan might have up his sleeve! Compare and contrast between the hilarious, original Bedazzled (Dudley Moore. 1967/103 min.) and the 2000 remake featuring the Princess of Darkness, Bedazzled (Brendan Fraser. 2000/93 min.). 2 DVDs. Color/PG-13.

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 2
• Audio: Dolby Surround
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
• Features:
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  • Bedazzled (1967):
  • Peter & Dud: An interview with the devil
  • Peter Cook & Dudley Moore on the Paul Ryan Show
  • A Bedazzled conversation with Harold Ramis
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Still gallery
  • Bedazzled (2000):
  • Commentary by director Harold Ramis
  • Commentary by actors Elizabeth Hurley and Trevor Albert
  • Making of featurette
  • Costume design featurette
  • Still gallery

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Brendan Fraser - Elliot Richards
       Dudley Moore - Stanley Moon
       Eleanor Bron - Margaret Spencer
       Miriam Shor - Carol
       Alba - Vanity
       Bernard Spear - Irving Moses
       Barry Humphries - Envy
       Gabriel Casseus - Elliot's Cellmate
       Brian Doyle - Murray - Priest
       Howard Goorney - Sloth
       Aaron Lustig - Synedyne Supervisor
       Rudolph Martin - Raoul
       Julian Firth - John Wilkes Booth
       Michael Trubshawe - Lord Dowdy
       Evelyn Moore - Mrs. Wisby
       Charles Lloyd Pack - Vicar
       Lockwood West - St. Peter
       Betty Cooper - Sister Phoebe
       Anna Turner - Shop assistant

• Director:

  Stanley Donen, Harold Ramis

• Producer:

  Stanley Donen, Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis

• Screenwriter:

  Peter Cook, Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis, Peter Tolan

• Cinematographer:

  Austin Dempster, Bill Pope

• Composer (Music Score):

  Dudley Moore, David Newman

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Dawn Solér

• Editor:

  Richard Marden, Craig Herring

• Production Designer:

  Rick Heinrichs

• Art Director:

  John Dexter

• Co-producer:

  Suzanne Herrington

• Executive Producer:

  Neil Machlis

• Set Designer:

  Jann K. Engel, Darrell L. Wight, Kevin Ishioka

• Costume Designer:

  Deena Appel

• Set Decorator:

  Garrett Lewis

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Steve Cantamessa

• Makeup:

  Ben Nye, Jr.

• First Assistant Director:

  Michael Haley

• Visual Effects Supervisor:

  Richard Edlund

• Prosthetic Makeup Effects:

  Matthew Mungle

• Visual Effects:

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

• Hair Styles:

  Robert Hallowell

REVIEW:

• Musical specialist Stanley Donen is the nominal director of this brilliant comic parody of the Faust legend, but the real auteurs are undoubtedly its two stars, half of the groundbreaking "Beyond the Fringe"comedy group. Dudley Moore plays a wimpy bar waiter, hopelessly in love with his co-worker (Eleanor Bron). When he's on the verge of suicide, Satan (Peter Cook) appears, offering him seven wishes in exchange for his soul. Irreverent and surreal, ranging from high-flown wit to raunchy low comedy, despite moments of inertia, the film remains one of the funniest of its decade. Cook and Moore start out to explore the irrationality of commonplace fears and insecurities along with the commercial exploitation of same, and end with a wholesale comic critique of then-contemporary society which mostly still applies. As funny as Moore is as a man whose various wishes are bent askew by the devil, Cook is the comic center of the film, a mischievous demon who goes about the daily business scratching LPs ('60s), tearing out the endings of books, and flicking parking meters "expired" in his tireless efforts to make the human race miserable. His proudest achievement thus far: advertising. The film reaches its apogee as Moore, now morphed into a nun, takes his rightful place with the sacred order of the Leaping Beryllians. To reveal more would be sacrilege. Bedazzled also represents the apogee of the partnership of Cook and Moore, who would soon go their separate ways, with the latter finding stardom in Hollywood. ~ Michael Costello, Rovi