Derek and Clive Get the Horn

1979
Unrated
1h 29m

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Dudley Moore and Peter Cook in Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979)

Russell Mulcahy (of "Highlander" fame) films British comedy luminaries Peter Cook and Dudley Moore recording their last comedy album featuring two of their most beloved characters, lavatory ... Read allRussell Mulcahy (of "Highlander" fame) films British comedy luminaries Peter Cook and Dudley Moore recording their last comedy album featuring two of their most beloved characters, lavatory attendants Derek and Clive. Booze, drugs, strippers and practical jokes (sometimes bitter ... Read allRussell Mulcahy (of "Highlander" fame) films British comedy luminaries Peter Cook and Dudley Moore recording their last comedy album featuring two of their most beloved characters, lavatory attendants Derek and Clive. Booze, drugs, strippers and practical jokes (sometimes bitter and sick on the part of Cook) are provided. Throughout the recording, Moore has to weather... Read all

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Trivia
By the time this film was shot and edited, Dudley Moore had achieved success as a comedy actor and musician in the United States, while Peter Cook remained relatively unknown there. Peter Cook begged Moore "ad nauseum" to record one last comedy album featuring their cult-favorite characters Derek and Clive (to be called "Ad Nauseum"), a farewell to both their characters and their partnership. They were booked in a studio for three days. Moore had become so fed up with Cook's bitterness at his recent popularity that he failed to show up for the third day of recording and shooting. Moore looked down on Peter Cook and director Russell Mulcahy's intentions to market the film as a general release. This was done in any case, and the film was subsequently banned in the UK for many years. Eventually, it was release on VHS in PAL format in the early 1990s and released to DVD later. It has still never been released in the United States, either theatrically or on video. Moore is quoted to have said, "The film would have most certainly earned an X rating for the sole reason of the language Pete and I used in it."

Quotes
Clive: You know that big nigger who lives down the road?
Derek: Him? Yeah. Oh, lovely.
Clive: Huge black cunt. I said, I said to him, I said, um, Ephraim, strange name for a black, innit? I said there's a load of cunts down the BBC and they need sorting out. I said, um, this should appeal to your fucking primitive urges cos I said you like cannibalism, don't you? You like eating people alive in a frying pan. I said, go round to the BBC with some of your mates dressed up in your loincloths and that, and, er, paint yourselves up in different colours or whatever you cunts do back in Africa. And so he said, er, oh, it's nice, that and he, he, he said what do we do when we arrive? I said, go beserk, tear the fucking place down.
Derek: Yes, spunk all over the fucking centre.
Clive: Spunk all over the Director General and kill everyone in the studios, you know, and, um, he was all, you know, he got about forty of these coons gathered together to rush round to the BBC. And I was really looking forward to it. I was looking forward to tuning in to the news that night and seeing the news on the BBC. The BBC had being burn't to the fucking ground.
Derek: Yeah. Yeah. Four... forty thousand.
Clive: I turned on the Nine O'clock News. There was Kenneth Kendall, calm as a cucumber. No story about anything burning to the fucking ground. And do you know what the *cunt, black, nigger, poof, cunt said when he came back?*
Derek: No?
Clive: "Oh, I'm sorry. I couldn't find it."
Derek: No!
Clive: "I lost my way", he said.

Crazy credits
Exotic cigarettes by Haile Selassie.

Connections
Featured in Without Walls: The Greatest F***King Show on TV (1994)

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The most profane filth ever performed on film

.... and we love every minute of it. Lord Longford and Richard Branson also get a mention.

Lewd and lascivious behaviour, drinking, drug-taking and a non-stop torrent of abuse make this the most hilarious film I've ever seen.