"Bedazzled" - '67 - making-of material

A rare glimpse (they didn't DO "making-of featurettes" in them days) at the making of Bedazzled. There are also glimpses of the MOVIE on this channel - "The Millionaire" sequence, with a detached STEREO score is on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9FkRqvOQX4 and Peter Cook's performance of the title track - also in STEREO - is on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBOPCZCAb5Q

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Film & Animation

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• Peter
• Cook
• Dudley
• Moore
• Stanley
• Donan
• Barry
• Humphries
• Bedazzled

[cookmoore]

Is there more rare glimpses?

[davidwrightatloppers]

@cookmoore - Not that I know of! The original footage was lifted from a Sixties NEWS-REEL which only ran it as PART of a news "round-up" - they didn't DO "making-of featurettes" in those days!

[kathish]

Interesting that Ian, Eleanor and Barry all mention Peter's beauty at the time. Gotta agree there...

[cookmoore]

:)

Thanks.

Sorry my grammar was off -meant to say, "Are there..."

[cookmoore]

They don't have this whole thing on DVD

Thanks!

[davidwrightatloppers]

Yeah. Cruise - like Connery, Al Pacino, Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, John Wayne, are/were STARS - people with BIG personalities that shine thru the screen. ACTORS are people with NO personality - but who have the ability to ABSORB TOTALLY that of another. And no matter how DIFFERENT the character is from their own, they make US believe it - because THEY believe it. Like Andy Kaufman as Latka or David Suchet as Poirot. If you spoke to Suchet on a day he was filming Poirot - he ANSWERED as Poirot!

[dudleysjmoore]

Good tips! I wasn't at all thrilled when they made a prequel to the Hannibal Lecter movies. But if they HAVE to do remakes or prequels, etc, I wish they'd only use unknown actors. I have a hard time watching a movie with someone like Tom Cruise playing a part because all I see IS Tom Cruise and not the character he's supposed to be playing.

[davidwrightatloppers]

appeal to the younger audience and work for a tenth of the money. Of course, that's the problem - old people stay home and watch DVDs. Cinema audiences are getting YOUNGER - while I just keep getting OLDER !

[davidwrightatloppers]

Oh, right! (I was confused!) I find there are six kinds of film worth travelling miles to AVOID - in addition to remakes, no-brainer actioners, effects movies (I've nothing against digital when it's used to move the STORY along - but when the effects ARE the story...) spin-offs (books are okay, so long as the scriptwriter realises film is a VISUAL medium) sequels (obviously) and a new-ish one - "PREQUELS". When the actor who plays the hero is too old - and EXPENSIVE - get a kid who'll [more]

[dudleysjmoore]

Oh, I didn't mean YOU. I mean in the actual clip. On the footage. :-)

Ew, the remake was so bad.