Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sftri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!mom From: mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: movie title needed (***SPOILER***) Message-ID: <465@sftri.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 00:23:09 EDT Article-I.D.: sftri.465 Posted: Tue Jul 9 00:23:09 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jul-85 23:55:45 EDT References: <426@h-sc1.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Summit N.J. Lines: 32 > I've been trying to remember the name of a very funny movie I saw - it starred > Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore, and Raquel Welch was in it. Peter Cooke played > the devil and Dudley Moore sold his soul to him. Apparently they were both in > a comedy group called something like "Off the Fringe" and made several movies > together. The movie you're looking for is called "Bedazzled". It stars Dudley Moore as a short order cook who makes a pact with the devil (Peter Cook) to give him wishes (seven, I think) in exchange for his soul. Moore is constantly trying to word the wishes in order to get himself the current woman of his dreams, a waitress at the greasy spoon he works at, but Peter Cook always perverts the wishes by holding strictly to the wording of the wish rather than the spirit of it. I found the movie incredibly funny-- Racquel Welch plays Lust, one of the Seven Deadly Sins that the Devil keeps around for doing specially evil deeds. The movie shows up on TV every so often, and it is available on videocassette. Just as an added note, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller formed a comedy troupe called "Beyond the Fringe". I believe this was in the early or mid-60's. Jonathan Miller is the same Jonathan Miller (M.D. or the English equivalent) who produced a series and a book ("The Body in Question") on the human body a while back. I believe he produced quite a few of the Shakespeare plays seen on PBS over the past several years. "..say the magic word--- Julie Andrews!!!" Mark Modig ihnp4!sftri!mom