lsmith@h-sc1.UUCP (Liz Smith) (07/08/85)
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. Can anyone in netland help me? Thanks- Liz Smith
smc@mit-vax.UUCP (Stewart M. Clamen) (07/08/85)
> 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. > Liz Smith The movie is called _Bedazzled_, I saw it last Febuary. Raquel Welch played Lust. Other vices personified (although I don't remember the actors) were Vanity, Gluttony, and Envy. -- ---------------------------------------------------- ARPA: SMC%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA USENET: ...!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!smc%mit-oz
avolio@decuac.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) (07/09/85)
In article <426@h-sc1.UUCP>, lsmith@h-sc1.UUCP (Liz Smith) writes: > 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... Dudley Moore, a short-order cook who trades his soul for seven wishes... *Bedazzled* (NR) 1967: Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Peter Cook -Fred
mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig) (07/09/85)
> 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
steven@ism70.UUCP (07/09/85)
The film is _B_e_d_a_z_z_l_e_d.
preece@ccvaxa.UUCP (07/10/85)
> 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 is _Bedazzled_. Raquel Welch was one of the seven deadly sins (specifically, Lust). Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore were three quarters of "Beyond the Fringe" which was a comedy revue in the early 60s. It played in New York (on Broadway?). Jonathon Miller was also in the group and someone else, whose name escapes me. Cooke and Moore continued to work together into the mid-70s, doing "concerts" and making records. There was another revuew, with just the two of them, about 1973. The English album "Behind the Fridge" was, I think, from that revue, which played in New York and Chicago, among other places. They were wonderful. They're still wonderful separately, but they were very special together, which they haven't done much since _Ten_.
mgh@mtunh.UUCP (Marcus Hand) (07/12/85)
Yes the movie in which Peter Cooke was the devil and Dudley Moore sold his soul to him in exchange for what he wanted, and which stared Elenor Bron and Raquel Welch (as Lust, I think)etc, etc... was called Bedazzled. -- Marcus Hand (mtunh!mgh)
gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis) (07/12/85)
> 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. > > Can anyone in netland help me? > > Thanks- > > Liz Smith If it is the same film that I saw part of recently at Westercon 85, it is Bedazzled. It was great, but I had to get some sleep (the time was about 4:30am). I'd love to find that movie on tape and see the rest of it. Gary
allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) (07/22/85)
In article <465@sftri.UUCP> mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig) writes: >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. And Alan Bennett wrote the screenplay for the recent "A Private Function".