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  • Derek And Clive Get The Horn
  • Derek And Clive Get The Horn review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Not their best 27 February 2005
    ...Peter Cook and Dudley Moore recreate their more offensive double act Derek and Clive for a final unscripted session. It is fascinating to watch these two comedy legends t...   Read customer review
  • The Princess Bride
  • The Princess Bride review by from Sheffield, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars A classic! 3 June 2004
    ...one in 'The court jester'. There are superb cameo appearances by Billy Crystal, Peter Cook, Mel Smith etc but you have to look hard thru all the make up. There is a great...   Read customer review
  • Alice In Wonderland
  • Alice In Wonderland review by from Manchester
    Rated - 5.0 stars Dream of a movie 2 July 2004
    ... story, it would work wonderfully as a piece of semi-Bunuelian surrealism. Even Peter Cook, comic genius but legendarily bad actor, manages to act well in it....   Read customer review

Peter Cook - filmography


  • Black Beauty on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Sean Bean,  Andrew Knott,  David Thewlis
    Director: Caroline Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    This fifth feature adaptation of Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel comes to life, told from the point of view of Black Beauty himself -- who narrates the film. Set in England, Black Beauty (who has a British accent) tells us the details surrounding his birth, his "colt-hood", and his perception of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,893 member
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  • The Secret Policeman's Ball - The Comple... (3 discs) on DVD (1989)
    Starring: John Cleese,  Neil Innes,  Terry Jones
    Director: Roger Graef
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A box set featuring all the Secret Policeman's Balls. 'Pleasure At Her Majesty's (1976)', 'Mermaid Frolics (1977)', 'The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)', 'The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1981)', 'The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987)', and 'The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball (1989)
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 198 members
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  • The Princess Bride - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  Peter Cook,  Billy Crystal
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Director Rob Reiner breathes vividly colored cinematic life into William Goldman's THE PRINCESS BRIDE, effectively evoking the wondrous, wide-eyed spirit of the witty 1973 novel. When a sick boy (Fred Savage) receives a visit from his doting grandfather (Peter Falk) who intends to read to him from ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 553 members
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  • The Princess Bride on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  Peter Cook,  Billy Crystal
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Director Rob Reiner breathes vividly colored cinematic life into William Goldman's THE PRINCESS BRIDE, effectively evoking the wondrous, wide-eyed spirit of the witty 1973 novel. When a sick boy (Fred Savage) receives a visit from his doting grandfather (Peter Falk) who intends to read to him from ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 31,377 members
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  • Whoops Apocalypse on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Loretta Swit,  Peter Cook,  Michael Richards
    Director: Tom Bussmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Mix all these stars with political intrigue, Royal kidnaps, hostile invasions, nuclear bombs, British Task Forces, mad international terrorists and the SAS... and you get total mayhem. Based on the popular TV series.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 725 members
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  • The Secret Policeman's Ball - Private Parts (1984)
    Starring: Connie Booth,  Graham Chapman,  John Cleese
    Director: Roger Graef
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    This film is a selection of highlights from the previous Policeman's Ball stage benefits for Amnesty International. The show includes sketches by the members of Monty Python with noted comedian Peter Cook, as well as musical numbers by Pete Townshend, Phil Collins and Bob Geldof.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 6 members
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  • Supergirl on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Faye Dunaway,  Helen Slater,  Peter O'Toole
    Director: Jeannot Szwarc
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Strength, flight, invincibility, heat vision, an unswerving sense of justice: they're all family traits, Kara, SUPERMAN's cousin also survived the cataclysm that destroyed their homeworld of Krypton. On Earth she becomes SUPERGIRL! Helen Slater plays the title role, posing as Midvale prep-schooler ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,840 member
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  • Derek And Clive Get The Horn on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Peter Cook,  Dudley Moore
    Director: Russell Mulcahy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Peter Cook and Dudley Moore put on the guises of Derek and Clive one final time in DEREK AND CLIVE GET THE HORN. The film mostly records the two feuding stars as they are in the studio recording their AD NAUSEUM record. It consists of a number of brilliant comic sketches as well as a wealth of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,031 member
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  • The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1977)
    Starring: Dudley Moore,  Peter Cook,  Denholm Elliott
    Director: Paul Morrissey
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, respectively, in this Paul Morrissey parodic interpretation of the literary (and quite literate) detective. Aided by a cast of British comedy luminaries, such as Kenneth Williams and Terry-Thomas, Cook and Moore present silly ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 404 members
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  • Find The Lady on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Peter Cook,  Dick Emery,  Mickey Rooney
    Director: John Trent
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When two hoodlums are hired to grab their hirer's niece everything goes wrong. The wrong lady is kidnapped and the intended victim is busy arranging her own kidnapping....
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 61 members
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  • Alice In Wonderland (1966)
    Starring: John Gielgud,  Peter Cook,  Alan Bennett
    Director: Jonathan Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the classic book by Lewis Carroll, this version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND was originally produced for BBC1 in 1966 by Jonathan Miller, and is one of the more original and stylish adaptations to date. Drawing inspiration from Victorian photography and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Miller's vision ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 778 members
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  • The Wrong Box on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Peter Cook,  Dudley Moore
    Director: Bryan Forbes
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Years before the story proper in THE WRONG BOX gets under way, a 'tontine' is drawn up on behalf several young British boys. Each of the boys' parents had placed £1,000 in a pool, to be invested and expanded upon. The resultant fortune will go to the last surviving member of the tontine. A series ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 346 members
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  • The Best Of Cook And Moore on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Peter Cook,  Dudley Moore
    Director: none
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 1965 the BBC harnessed the talents of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore for a new show, Not Only But Also. Building scripts from improvised recordings (although ad-libs and corpsing remained irresistible features of the final recordings), the young partnership created their own style of comedy ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,449 member
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