Derek and Clive Get the Horn

Derek and Clive Get the Horn
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Directed by	Russell Mulcahy
Written by	Peter Cook Dudley Moore
Produced by	Dudley Moore
Starring	Peter Cook Dudley Moore
Cinematography	Mike Dodds Nicholas D. Knowland Bryan Loftus
Edited by	Russell Mulcahy
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	October 1979 (1979-10) (UK)
Running time	89 minutes
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. The film was the feature film directorial debut of Russell Mulcahy, who would go on to direct Highlander.

Cast

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

Release

The film was intended for a theatrical release, but in October 1980, the British Board of Film Classification rejected it outright on the grounds of its sustained and excessive use of very strong language (the uses of "fuck" and "cunt"), 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 and was released as a sell-through video by PolyGram.

External links

• Derek and Clive Get the Horn at IMDb
• Derek and Clive Get the Horn at Rotten Tomatoes