Oh, God! You Devil

Oh, God! You Devil
Oh, God! You Devil

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Directed by Paul Bogart
Produced by Robert B. Sherman
Irving Fein (executive producer)
Written by Andrew Bergman
Starring George Burns
Ted Wass
Ron Silver
Roxanne Hart
Music by David Shire
Jack Hayes (orchestrator)
Cinematography King Baggot
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) November 7, 1984 (1984-11-07)
Running time 97 min.
Country United States
Language English
Box office $21,538,850 (USA)

Oh, God! You Devil (1984) is a black comedy /fantasy film starring George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver and Roxanne Hart.

Directed by Paul Bogart and produced by Robert M. Sherman. The screenplay was adapted by Andrew Bergman.

Oh, God! You Devil is the third and final installment in the Oh, God! series, based on the novel of the same title by Avery Corman.

The film was #1 at the box office and George Burns received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actor.

Plot

Burns plays the dual roles of both God and Satan. The Satan character, Harry O. Tophet, is definitely lively, taking pleasure in petty acts of PG-rated malice (such as making a waiter fall into a pool).

The story tells of a struggling rock singer/musician, Bobby Shelton (played by Wass), who cannot get a break. His wife, Wendy (Hart), is going to have a baby, and Bobby, desperate to support his family, announces that he would sell his soul to get ahead. Satan suddenly appears, calling himself "Harry O. Tophet" and offers Shelton a deal — seven years of unprecedented fame and fortune in exchange for his soul. 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.

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. Realizing that he is trapped, Bobby Shelton asks for help from God, who has been watching over him. God appears and offers to help.

During a climactic poker game between God and the Devil, God offers to stop protecting all those on "his list" in exchange for Bobby's soul.(Meanwhile, Bobby has become so despondent, that he is in his dressing room attempting suicide by liquor and pills) If God wins, the Devil would be prevented from meddling with any of those on the list, even if they request his assistance. Considering the loss too high, Tophet folds, and finds that God had been bluffing, telling Tophet that he folded because "I put the fear of Me in you."

Bobby rises from the floor of the dressing room, leaving behind the corpse of Billy Wayne who had committed suicide. The Devil will have to come up with a new scam to hustle unsuspecting souls. In the end, God meets with Bobby and tells him about how his father once prayed for him when he was a sick child, and that since then, God has had a eye on him. After warning Bobby that next time, he will not bail him out, Shelton returns to happiness in a simple life with his loving wife and daughter.

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