Derek and Clive Get the Horn

1979 British film by Russell Mulcahy

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	GTO
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 James Anderton of the Greater Manchester Police, bankrupting the small company behind the release. 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.

References

^ "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 (REJECT)". British Board of Film Classification. 21 October 1980. Retrieved 25 September 2013.

External links

v t e Works by Russell Mulcahy
Films	Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979) Razorback (1984) Highlander (1986) Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) Ricochet (1991) Blue Ice (1992) The Real McCoy (1993) The Shadow (1994) Swimming Upstream (2003) Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) In Like Flynn (2018)
Television	Silent Trigger (1996) On the Beach (2000) The Lost Battalion (2001) First to Die (2003) 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004) Mysterious Island (2005) The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006) While the Children Sleep (2007) Crash and Burn (2008) Prayers for Bobby (2009) Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023)
Direct-to-video	Tale of the Mummy (1998) Resurrection (1999) The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008) Give 'Em Hell, Malone (2009)
See also	As the Lights Go Down (1984) Arena (An Absurd Notion) (1985)

v t e Peter Cook
Revues	Pieces of Eight One Over The Eight Beyond the Fringe
Television series created	Not Only... But Also Goodbye Again Where Do I Sit?
Films written	Bedazzled The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer The Hound of the Baskervilles Derek and Clive Get the Horn
Radio	Why Bother?
Sketches	"One Leg Too Few" E. L. Wisty Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling Pete and Dud Derek and Clive
Related	The Establishment Club Private Eye

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