Bedazzled
Directed by Stanley Donen
Written by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
UK/1967
IMDb link
Repeat viewing/Netflix rental
[box] George Spiggott: You fill me with inertia.[/box]
Modernized Faust story shows off the droll wit and frequent silliness of the antics of Cook and Moore.
Dudley Moore plays Stanley Moon, a short-order cook. He longs for waitress Margaret (Eleanor Bron) but is too timid even to speak to her. Moore attempts suicide but the rope did not hold so he feels he can’t even kill himself right. And this moment, Lucifer/Mr. Spigott (Peter Cookd) intervenes and proposes giving Moore seven wishes in exchange for his soul. Stanley figures he has nothing to lose.
But the Devil doesn’t play fair. He finds a loophole in the phraseology of the wish and each time lands Stanley in a predicament that makes him desperate to return to his previously unappreciated existence. During the course of the film we meet the Seven Deadly Sins. Raquel Welch plays Lust.
Well I thought this was pretty funny! Recommended to fans of British humor.
