Oh, God! You Devil
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| Directed by | Paul Bogart |
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Robert M. Sherman Irving Fein (executive producer) |
| Written by | Andrew Bergman |
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| Music by |
David Shire Jack Hayes (orchestrator) |
| Cinematography | King Baggot |
| Edited by | Andy Zall |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $21,538,850 (domestic) |
Oh, God! You Devil is a 1984 American comedy film starring George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver and Roxanne Hart. Directed by Paul Bogart and produced by Robert M. Sherman. The screenplay is by Andrew Bergman.Oh, God! You Devil is the third and final installment in the Oh, God! film series following Oh, God! (1977) and Oh, God! Book II (1980), based on the novel of the same title by Avery Corman.
George Burns received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance.
Burns plays the dual roles of both God and the Devil. The Devil — Harry O. Tophet — is a lively character, taking pleasure in petty acts of PG-rated malice, such as making a waiter fall into a pool.
The movie tells the story of a struggling rock musician, Bobby Shelton (played by Wass), who cannot get a break. Bobby, desperate to support his wife and start a family, muses that he would sell his soul to the Devil to get ahead. The devil begins to appear to Bobby as a prospective agent called Harry O. Tophet and offers Shelton a deal--seven years of unprecedented fame and fortune. Shelton balks at the deal and so Tophet renegotiates claiming that it will be for a "trial period." Shelton signs the document, but his signature transforms into that of Billy Wayne, the last person to whom Tophet offered this deal, and soon after Bobby realizes he has sold his soul to the devil.
Shelton discovers that, though he now has the fame he wanted, he has lost his identity--he is now Billy Wayne. As such, his family is now someone else's--the former Billy Wayne, whose life Tophet now controls. He also discovers that his wife is pregnant with his child. Realizing that he is trapped, Bobby Shelton asks for help from God, who has been watching over him. God appears and offers to help.
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