Poor Devil (1973)

Sammy Davis Jr, during his early 70s Satanist phase, made this unsold tv pilot with a plot that plays like a satanic reversal of It s a Wonderful Life, complete with a Christmastime setting. Sammy is a zany, misfit demon who is on the outs with Lucifer (Christopher Lee) because he hasn t captured a soul in over a thousand years. He gets one last chance when he is assigned a burnedout salesman (Jack Klugman) who is thinking of selling his soul. Sammy scambles to satisfy Jack s desire for wealth and reven