Derek and Clive Get the Horn

Derek and Clive Get the Horn
DVD cover
Directed by	Russell Mulcahy
Produced by	Dudley Moore
Written by	Peter Cook Dudley Moore
Starring	Peter Cook Dudley Moore Richard Branson
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	October 1979 (1979-10) (UK)
Running time	89 minutes^[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Derek and Clive Get the Horn is a 1979 British documentary comedy film that chronicles the recording of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's 1978 comedy album Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam, their third and final outing featuring their controversial alter-egos Derek and Clive, two foul-mouthed lavatory attendants who banter at length about their surreal day-to-day existences. The footage was shot in early September 1978.^[2] The film was the directorial debut of Russell Mulcahy, who would go on to direct Highlander.

Cast

Peter Cook as Clive
Dudley Moore as Derek
Richard Branson as Man with a beard
Nicola Austine as Lady who came in and took her clothes off
Judy Huxtable as Judy Cook

Release

The film was intended for a theatrical release, but in October 1980, the British Board of Film Classification rejected it outright^[3] on the grounds of its sustained and excessive use of bad language (the uses of "the F-word" and "the C-word") and blasphemy.

Cook instead chose to release the film straight to video, a format that was at the time unregulated, but this plan also ran into trouble when several hundred copies were impounded by "God's copper" James Anderton of the Greater Manchester Police, sending the small company behind the release spiraling into bankruptcy. Derek and Clive Get the Horn was finally granted an uncut 18 certificate in 1993^[1] and was released as a sell-through video by PolyGram.

References

1 2 "DEREK AND CLIVE GET THE HORN (18)". PolyGram Video. British Board of Film Classification. 13 August 1993. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
↑ "Derek and Clive Get the Horn". The New York Times.
↑ "DEREK AND CLIVE GET THE HORN (REJECT)". British Board of Film Classification. 21 October 1980. Retrieved 25 September 2013.

External links

Derek and Clive Get the Horn at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Russell Mulcahy

Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979)
Razorback (1984)
Arena (An Absurd Notion) (1985)
As the Lights Go Down (1985)
Highlander (1986)
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
Ricochet (1991)
Blue Ice (1992)
The Real McCoy (1993)
The Shadow (1994)
Silent Trigger (1996)
Tale of the Mummy (1998)
Resurrection (1999)
On the Beach (2000)
The Lost Battalion (2001)
First to Die (2003)
Swimming Upstream (2003)
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004)
Mysterious Island (2005)
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006)
While the Children Sleep (2007)
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Crash and Burn (2008)
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008)
Prayers for Bobby (2009)
Give 'Em Hell, Malone (2009)

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