Customer Reviews
Faustian Bargain!!! - By: Electricmiles, 28 May 2008 
One of my favourite films of alll time.I hate when people say it's dated, what do you expect, it was made over forty years ago. It,s a classic sixties movie. The soundtrack is also awesome, took me years to find it on CD & the album stands alone as a great piece of jazz. Pete & Dud, the bizness!!!
Back tom the 70s (60s?) - By: M. E. Wragg, 08 May 2008 This was when Pete & Dud (together with That Was The Week That Was)were at the height of their powers. Eleanor Bron is superb, as are Pete & Dud. This was a satire that needed to be made at the time. I can think of smalll criticisms, but nothing that substantiallly detracts from the overalll performance.
if you can remember this time, buy the DVD.
Classic 60's comedy from Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - By: Alister King, 07 Feb 2008 
Classic 60's comedy from Peter Cook & Dudley Moore with wicked sense of humour & a cracking cameo from Raquel Welsh.
It did NOT fill me with inertia! - By: Peter K. Henson, 12 Oct 2007 This is a wonderfully funny movie, whether you regard it as a collection of sketches or a proper story. Each sequence has some hilarious lines (and Cook's coolly aloof pop star routine is sublime), & is as bright as the awful re-make was dim. Very redolent of the Sixties without, oddly enough, seeming like a dated curiosity. It's just a delightful little bit of mischief.
Genius at work - By: Lou Knee, 23 Aug 2007 Although perhaps, filmicallly, this is a bit of an excuse for a patchwork of (brilliant) verbal & visual gags & funny scenes, the writing is deliciously satirical, the comic partnership is hellishly good, & the whole thing is dazzlingly watchable. Much of it is inspired beyond the norm, & it has a very naughty feel to it. It has to be one of the best comic screenplays ever written, it is that sharp, & Spiggot's prophesy at the end shows how great satire can be more informative & in tune with reality than the voices of our society's own custodians. This role was made for Peter Cook, & his delivery is magnificent. Moore & Bron also shine, but this is Cook's film alll the way, (And why not! After alll, it was his idea & his screenplay.) that's why this smalllish budget British comedy is so important a piece of work. Top 20 alll time Brit flick without question.
This is also a very good DVD package befitting its great worth. It comes in one of those nice boxes, brilliantly designed, & has two interesting extras: The best of these is an insightful homage to Cook by a surprisingly sober & conservative sounding Barry Humphries. He pays his respects to Cook by recounting his days spent as a struggling Aussie comedian trying to make it big where it mattered then, in London, & tells of Cook's help in his slow breakthrough to the bigtime. Humphries' thoughtful insights into a man famously difficult to get to reallly know, are indeed as insightul as anything I've read on him. It just adds to the necessity to own this suberb DVD, showing the very best work of a true genius.
