Sweet! I just got that awesome movie Bedazzled on DVD!

[Deja Q]

Not the shit 2004 version but the original 1967 version that's actually decent. (I have an old VHS tape, but still...)

On two discs, to mimic the olden day pleasures of Laserdisc.

And now I'm going to rip the discs, clean up the video and audio, and compress the bugger on one DVD, now that I've perfected the process for my other archival projects.

No more VHS tapes that I can build year-round igloos with, hurrah! :D :D

[NYCGirl]

1. One of my favorites — Julie Andrews!!!

[Deja Q]

3. Sweet! So there are other fans of real comedy!

:D

I can't wait to post before and after pics, though the source material is far more the problem than the original LD->DVD transfer. (faded, hissy audio, all of that... pity there aren't jobs doing film restoration professionally. )

[NYCGirl]

7. Pete and Dud are the best!

I do hope that those who saw the remake will check out the original version, although it's not on DVD.

They show a pretty good letterboxed version of Fox Movie Channel from time to time.

[Deja Q]

8. I second that! It can be found on VHS at many rental stores too.

Assuming they still have the tape.

I wish they'd they'd release the original proper... and the original is infinitely better.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Lillian Lust, the babe with the bust. Oh my adolescence. Racquel

Welch in her prime.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Loved the deadpan Peter Cook/Dudley Moore dialogue too.

[progressoid]

5. Peter Cook is underappreciated................nt

[NYCGirl]

9. Totally. He's a fucking genius!

And Dudley Moore was never better than when they were working together.

Edited to add:

Did you ever hear any of the Derek and Clive albums they did together? Some of the most twisted, filthy, brilliant stuff ever recorded!

http://www.phespirit.info/derekandclive/

[progressoid]

11. I've a vague memory of this...looks like I will have to do a little

vinyl shopping or ebaying. Thanks for the link.

[progressoid]

6. Peter Cook is underappreciated................nt

[RadicalMom]

10. I love the double sin from the pigeons and the...

Order of the Leaping Berylians.

[sleepyhead]

12. My very favorite movie

"Just can't find good sins any more. It must be the wages."

[Deja Q]

14. 'You do realize suicide is a capital offense. In less enlightened times,

they'd have hung you for it.' - The Devil (Peter Cook)

Awesome stuff!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. "You fill me with inertia."

:-)

[Deja Q]

15. Please forgive me, I never meant to be so bland!

:D

[NYCGirl]

16. And just to kick this wonderful thread when it's somewhat down, here's the

text of my favorite sketch from Pete and Dud's show, Good Evening, which I saw on Broadway FIVE times! (Even in the front row the first time — it was so cool!)

The Frog and Peach:
http://www.davehitt.com/july99/frogskit.html

[miss_kitty]

17. I love this movie

I have it too-VHS-but still, I can watch it whenever

Ever get into any 'Beyond the Fringe' stuff (Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)?

also-check out 'Envy'-that's Barry Humphries, aka 'Dame Edna Everage'