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From: mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig)
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Subject: Re: movie title needed (***SPOILER***)
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 00:23:09 EDT
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> 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
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