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Fantasmes

Original title: Bedazzled
  • 1967
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  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
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Raquel Welch and Dudley Moore in Fantasmes (1967)
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A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

  • Director
    • Stanley Donen
  • Writers
    • Peter Cook
    • Dudley Moore
  • Stars
    • Peter Cook
    • Dudley Moore
    • Eleanor Bron
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    • Director
      • Stanley Donen
    • Writers
      • Peter Cook
      • Dudley Moore
    • Stars
      • Peter Cook
      • Dudley Moore
      • Eleanor Bron
    • 109User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
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    Peter Cook
    Peter Cook
    • George Spiggott
    Dudley Moore
    Dudley Moore
    • Stanley Moon
    Eleanor Bron
    Eleanor Bron
    • Margaret
    Raquel Welch
    Raquel Welch
    • Lilian Lust
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    • Vanity
    Robert Russell
    Robert Russell
    • Anger
    Barry Humphries
    Barry Humphries
    • Envy
    Parnell McGarry
    • Gluttony
    Danièle Noël
    • Avarice
    • (as Daniele Noel)
    Howard Goorney
    • Sloth
    Michael Bates
    Michael Bates
    • Inspector Clarke
    Bernard Spear
    • Irving Moses
    Robin Hawdon
    Robin Hawdon
    • Randolph
    Michael Trubshawe
    Michael Trubshawe
    • Lord Dowdy
    Evelyn Moore
    • Mrs. Wisby
    Charles Lloyd Pack
    • Vicar
    Lockwood West
    Lockwood West
    • St. Peter
    Betty Cooper
    • Sister Phoebe
    • Director
      • Stanley Donen
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      • Peter Cook
      • Dudley Moore
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    poiboy1966

    If you see only one Dudley Moore film, make it this one!!!

    If you have seen the Brendon Frazer / Liz Hurley version of "Bedazzled" I beg of you to check out the original version. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, an already famous comedy team brought their expertise to this film, a reworking of the Faust legend.

    Moore plays Stanley Moon, a grill cook at the Whimpy Burger, who is in love with Margaret Spencer (Eleanor Bron), a waitress there. When his attempt to go and ask for a date is thrarted by his own hesitation, he decides to end it all.

    Enter George Spiggot a.k.a. The Devil (Peter Cook) who tells Stanley that he can be with Margaret, in exchange for his soul. Stanley agrees, and the rest of the film showcases Stanley's wishes and that there is no such thing as a sure thing.

    The chemistry between Cook and Moore shows through as their script demonstrates. Bron is wonderful as Margaret, and Stanley Donen's direction only accents the well written script.

    The only other big name in the supporting cast, Raquel Welch, projects sheer sexuality as Lilian Lust, the sexpot of the Seven Deadly Sins.

    Concerning the remake, I wish it were more like the plotline of the original, because I think that Liz Hurley would have made a terrific Lilian Lust. Watch the two versions and you'll see.

    All in all, you can't go wrong with the original. Check it out and enjoy.

    P.S. Julie Andrews!!!!!!!!!!!!
    lucy-66

    It really is that good

    Just watched it again and this time I get it. Thirty-four years ago the script was over my head and I missed most of the double entendres. 1967 was a great

    year for them as censorship had just been slackened. The pop star sequence is in fuzzy black and white because it's supposed to be on TV - yes, that's what it used to look like. (Did people really dance like that?)

    The script is brilliant but sometimes the delivery is so throw-away the jokes are missed. Maybe as Peter Cook wrote them he didn't think they needed

    underlining. For example, when Stanley borrows George's red nightshirt and

    says something like "Does it really suit me? Red's not my colour, I'm usually more conservative." Red for socialism, blue for the conservative party. George's red socks were sported by Labour voters well into the conservative 70s and

    80s.

    Little things you may not know: Victorian nightshirts and long-legged bathing suits were a fad in 1967. George and Stanley when being themselves speak in

    working class accents (unlike God). Dudley really was working class, unlike

    Peter Cook.

    RIP to both. Let's eat a bowl of raspberries and cream in their memories. xxxxxxxxxxx
    7Tails-5

    Does the devil bear the face of Peter Cook?!

    This is one of my personal favorites. Stanley Moon (Dudley Moore), a down-and-out Londoner who has a miserable job at the local Wimpy Burgers and has the hots for a beautiful waitress named Margaret Spencer, tries to hang himself, but then the Devil has to come in and save him. The Devil (played by Peter Cook) isn't all red and horned, but dressed in a nice tuxedo and wears Ray-Bans. He is interested in Stanley for the sole fact that George (the name he goes by) made a deal with God to get a hundred billion souls first before the other. In exchange for his soul, Stanley gets seven wishes, and of course George has to twist them all into nightmares, just for a cheap laugh. ("You just left me one little loophole. I had to take advantage of it, doctor's orders!") One of my favorite scenes is where Stanley and George are passing by as police officers, and with the snap of George's fingers parking meters expire, old ladies' grocery bags tear apart, and fires start in trash bins. Definitely a good movie if it's rainy outside, and you're all depressed -- it'll lift you up in no time!
    7Lejink

    The Devil Went Down To Dudley

    I came to "Bedazzled" with some trepidation, fearing an inconsistent, incoherent, over-indulgent sixties romp but was pleased at how well structured and directed it was. Seasoned Hollywood practicioner Stanley Donen taking on Britain's Anarchic Duo Pete and Dud looked from the outside a risky proposition but Donen does a fine job of guiding Cook's barbed, witty and funny screenplay into an enjoyable film entertainment.

    Cleverly adapting the Faustian legend to modern day London it takes swipes at the convention of marriage, pop stardom, morality, religion (of course) and sex (also, of course) along the way. Framed by the device of the lovelorn Moore character's Stanley Moon's seven wishes, all to help him gain the heart of the remote Eleanor Bron character who works with him at the same greasy-spoon cafe, as granted by Cook's very chummy but always-one-step-ahead-of-him personification of the Devil, resplendent in his red socks, the film cleverly falls into a series of sketches like their TV series, taking in along the way personifications of the seven deadly sins for good (or bad) measure.

    Most prominent amongst the latter of course as Lillian Lust is the new sex-bomb of the time, Miss Raquel Welch, who gets to flaunt her ample charms in a state of extreme undress in her barely (no pun intended) seven minute part. It being the swinging 60's and all, the sexism exhibited to females is pretty blatant and gratuitous which some today may find objectionable. Whilst I could have done without this cheap-thrill titillation, I found the rest of the film to be sharp, witty and amusing. Cook as the writer naturally gives himself the best lines, in particular his pop star spoof where he invents Neil Tennant twenty years in advance or when he topically sinks the Torrey Canyon oil tanker which was one of the main news stories in the U.K. that year, although the most memorable scene has to be Moore as a nun bouncing on a trampoline with a bunch of bopping Sisters behind him.

    The chemistry between Cook and Moore is obvious but there's little sign of the spontaneous improvisation which sometimes prevailed in their TV shows ("Greta, Greta!") but it's no bad thing here as it keeps their performances sharp and to the point.

    It's a pity there wasn't a follow-up to this film or indeed any other film collaboration between the two which is a shame because not only did I enjoy this outing but also I'm sure they could have repeated the success they enjoyed here (see what I did there!).
    8HenryHextonEsq

    Iconoclastic sixties merriment

    I did have high expectations going into this film, being a fan of Cook and Moore through what is available of "Not Only But Also", and several other Cook projects like the superb collaboration with Chris Morris, "Why Bother?" The expectations were largely fulfilled when I got to see this film, via a rare showing on Channel 4 this last April, as a tribute to Dudley Moore. The remake with Liz Hurley in place of Cook (how crass and thoughtless a piece of casting? They should really have discarded the title "Bedazzled" and just made it a Faust update, and not made any association with the Pete n' Dud film) is of course an irrelevance, and it is truly emblematic of our culture that it has received so many more IMDb votes than this original.

    This film succeeds where "The Hound of the Baskervilles", a later Cook-Moore vehicle, abysmally fails. "Bedazzled" contains the essence of their comedic appeal, rooted as it is in errant taboo-breaking and gleeful absurdism. The strong guiding influence of Cook is in the script, which he had strong control over, by all accounts. The concept is a modern spin on the Faustian legend, based in 1960s London (amongst diversions!). "Bedazzled", with this scenario and its effective portrayal, is thus most winning when compared to both concept and execution in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"' lamentable case.

    We have Pete n' Dud centre stage, and both at their comedic peak. Moore as a hapless, beleaguered little chap, and Cook as a matter-of-fact, mischievous, cunning and charming devil. A devil called Mr George Spiggott, bizarrely! :-) The other turns are good, and merely complementary, with the various sins portrayed pretty well. Eleanor Bron is reasonable as the malleable (according to the wishes) but essentially quite undeveloped love interest of Moore's. Not that this particularly matters in a comedy such as this; and her hair is eye catching. :-)

    The brazenly literal cameo from Raquel Welch is something of a scream I must say; no pretence at her being anything else, which I presume there has been in other Welch movies of the period.

    The various segments in this episodic film, are perhaps variable in their quality, but none are poor. The episodic nature of the film really does work in its favour keeping it fresh, but having the wonderful London linking sequences the heart of the film. It gets most amusing as Cook's devil repeatedly outwits Moore and finds loopholes in his wishes to downright exploit. The "happy family and home life" wish is really quite bizarre and almost disturbing in its oddness, while maybe the "rich" one slightly overdoes Bron's bumptious ultra-sexuality, even if the whole segment works very well. The "leaping nuns" part is prime "Not Only But Also" in its hushed absurdity and is a joy. The art direction and music aspects are notably good, embellishing the film and drawing out its sixties context. This film has not and can not date, as it is all so tastefully achieved and its technical grasp never exceeds its reach.

    The whole film I feel, works excellently, with dashes of irony and an effective restating of the Faustian morals. There is an engaging melancholy to this film, below its comedic surface. The scene of the old woman being fobbed off by Cook is briefly poignant and suggestive of a whole society's delusion. The scenes as Cook effectively knocks on the door of Heaven feel slightly sombre to me, as well as oddly comic. There are some quite thoughtful scenes of dialogue as well, with the droll Cook in his element, perched atop a postbox. Of course, the depressing outcomes of each wish for Moore's character, only add to the slightly prickly, problematic mood that underlies the film. The whole thing ends on a very apposite note, I should add with a glint in my eye.

    I loved watching this film, and while I doubt it could quite be labelled a fully-formed "masterpiece", it is a startlingly good evocation of the 1960s in a way... and also very much an amusing, clever comedy, with the subversive spirit of Peter Cook stamped all over it.

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    • Trivia
      Although Raquel Welch is featured in most of the promotional material for this movie, she is on-screen for only roughly seven minutes.
    • Goofs
      (at around 55 mins) During Dudley Moore's song "Love Me", which he sings in character as Stanley Moon, the woman to the right of the screen seems to say repeatedly "Oh, Dudley" instead of calling him by his character's name, "Stanley".
    • Quotes

      George Spiggott: Everything I've ever told you has been a lie. Including that.

      Stanley Moon: Including what?

      George Spiggott: That everything I've ever told has been a lie. That's not true.

      Stanley Moon: I don't know WHAT to believe.

      George Spiggott: Not me, Stanley, believe me!

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      Featured in Film Review: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore & Stanley Donen (1967)
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      Composed by Dudley Moore

      Performed by The Dudley Moore Trio

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    • Release date
      • April 26, 1968 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Un Fausto moderno
    • Filming locations
      • High Street, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK(Wimpy bar scenes)
    • Production company
      • Stanley Donen Films
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    • Budget
      • $600,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 43m(103 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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