‘Bedazzled’ and ‘The Bed Sitting Room’ Return to the Big Screen for One Night Only

Sid Grauman's fully restored Egyptian Theater, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028, will salute Peter Cook and Dudley Moore by screening a double feature on Thursday, July 13, 2006, at 7:30 p.m.

'Bedazzled,' 1967, 20th Century Fox, 107 min. Dir. Stanley Donen.
A brand new 35mm print of the definitive mod comedy, filled with leaping lesbian nuns, bottles of froony green eyewash and Raquel Welch as Lillian Lust (the Babe with the Bust). Peter Cook wrote the screenplay and stars as the deliciously hip Devil, merrily ripping the last page out of Agatha Christie novels. Dudley Moore co-stars as the hapless hamburger chef who trades his soul for seven chances to bed the luscious Eleanor Bron.

'The Bed Sitting Room,' 1969, Sony Repertory, 91 min. Dir. Richard Lester.
An ultra-rare lost classic, this surreal dark satire anticipated and influenced Monty Python and blended Dr. Strangelove- style apocalyptic barbs with Salvador Dali-meets-Fellini’s Satyricon visual brilliance. Lester and his co-author British Goon/comedy guru Spike Milligan concocted a post-nuclear-holocaust Britain as a device to savage every last sacred cow — utilizing absurd characters drawn from a Who’s Who of British comedy: Milligan, Harry Secombe, Marty Feldman, Roy Kinnear, Arthur Lowe, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore and luminaries of the stage such as Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Michael Hordern, Mona Washbourne. The film defies descriptions but is universally hailed as the Holy Grail of black comedy by those lucky enough to have seen it. Check out the reviews on IMDB. File under “unmissable!” NOT ON DVD!

Tickets: $9, $7 (students/seniors), $6 (members). Phone: +1 (323) 466-3456