Sadly there is no readily available video of Peter Cook as Satan and Dudley Moore as the hapless Stanley Moon who sells his soul for seven wishes, so this part of a transcript will have to do. It puts me in mind of my talk this afternoon for some reason:
Scene: the Devil and Mr. Moon up a tree. The Devil has a jar full of wasps. They are observing a group of hippies communing below them.
Moore | I thought you were gonna make me happy.
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Cook | I never promised you that. that's up to you.
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| I just gave you 7 wishes for one measly little
soul.
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| I'm only doing me job.
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Moore | Your job? |
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| Making people miserable?
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Cook | No. giving them the chance to be happy.
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| It's god's idea.
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Moore | Don't confuse me with religion.
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Cook | You see, his theory, and I'm not knocking
it,
is that in order for people to be really
good,
they have to make a free choice
.. and choose good.
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| Look. (Hippies playing fifes in a field) |
| I'm a vital part of his plan. [grins] |
| I provide the evil. |
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| [Wasps buzzing, hippies fighting them off]
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Moore | [Laughs]
ah, you rotten, nasty-minded troublemaker.
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| Ohh.
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| Those nice, gentle flower people
grooving along quietly,
and you have to come and mess it up.
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Cook | You could do something about it.
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Moore | How?
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Cook | Why don't you give them one of your wishes?
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Moore | Well, because they're mine,
and I've only got 5 of them left.
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| I'm not falling for any more of your tricks,
thank you very much.
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