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Title: Donen dabbles, Cook and Moore Dazzle
Review: Dated but still funny retelling of the Faust tale, though this time set in a 1960s London burger bar, with a repressed Dudley Moore pining after unattainable waitress Eleanor Bron who sells his soul to the devil, Peter Cook, for a chance at true love. Cook plays a seedy down at heel satan to perfection and both he and Moore's performances riff off each other well honed by their track record in "Beyond the Fringe". The pace is a tad slow and performances slightly bookish to modern audiences accustomed to the more modern retelling with Brendan Fraser and Elizabth Hurley, but this is the original and delivers quiet rewards of its own. Notable also for the brief but effective cameo by the stunning Raquel Welch who is perfectly cast as.........Lust.
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