BEDAZZLED (1967) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Stanley Donen
Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron,
Raquel Welch, Barry Humphries, Michael Bates
A short-order cook with a desperate crush on one of his customers trades his soul to the Devil for seven wishes, and comes into contact with the Seven Deadly Sins. (Raquel Welch plays Lust.) Like "The Magic Christian", it's a movie that really has just one comic idea, but the idea's a good one and the filmmakers run with it. Cook as Lucifer gets to do all the fun stuff. He even gets to wear cool socks. Moore's initiation into an order of nuns called the Leaping Berylians is a loopy, leaping highlight.
