Friday, September 23, 2022

British cult classic comedy: "Bedazzled"


Bedazzled | Peter Cook | Dudley Moore | Raquel Welch | UK cult classic film
(Retro TV) July 1, 2022. Bedazzled: Stanley Moon (Moore) is infatuated with Wimpy Burger co-worker Margaret Spencer (Eleanor Bron), the statuesque waitress who works with him in London. He meets George Spiggott (a.k.a. the devil) and sells him his soul for seven wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist.

As each wish fails, being outwitted by the devil, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for.

Director: Stanley Donen. Writers: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Larry Gelbart. Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch (as the deadly sin "Lillian Lust, the Babe with the Bust").

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(Wiki) Bedazzled is a 1967 British comedy (in DeLuxe Color), a fantasy, romantic black comedy film directed and produced by Stanley Donen in Panavision format.

It was written by brilliant British comedian Peter Cook and starred both Cook and his comedy partner Dudley Moore.

It is a comic retelling of the Faust legend, set in the swinging London of the 1960s. The Devil (Cook) offers an unhappy young man (Dudley Moore as a short order cook at Wimpy Burgers, Stanley Moon) seven wishes in return for his soul.

But he twists the spirit of the wishes and only follows the letter of what has been wished for to frustrate the man's hopes. Poor "Faust," tricked by a devil far too smart for him. More

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