Bedazzled (1967 film)

Bedazzled
UK theatrical release poster by Tom Chantrell
Directed byStanley Donen
Screenplay byPeter Cook
Produced byStanley Donen
StarringPeter Cook
Dudley Moore
Eleanor Bron
Raquel Welch
CinematographyAustin Dempster
Edited byRichard Marden
Mary Kessell
Music byDudley Moore
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • 10 December 1967 (1967-12-10) (US)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$770,000[1]
Box office$1,500,000 (US/ Canada)[2][3]

Bedazzled is a 1967 British comedy DeLuxe Color film directed and produced by Stanley Donen in Panavision format. It was written by comedian Peter Cook and starred both Cook and his comedy partner Dudley Moore. It is a comic retelling of the Faust legend, set in the Swinging London of the 1960s. The Devil (Cook) offers an unhappy young man (Moore) seven wishes in return for his soul, but twists the spirit of the wishes to frustrate the man's hopes.

  1. ^ Solomon (1989), p. 255.
  2. ^ Solomon (1989), p. 231.
  3. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968". Variety. 8 January 1969. p. 15. Note that this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.