After the Fox 1966  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Victor Mature, Paolo Stoppa, Martin Balsam, Akim Tamiroff, Lydia Brazzi, Maurice Denham
This Neil Simon vehicle follows a lovable crook who manages to get caught and imprisoned every time he attempts a crime. He escapes and begins his next caper of smuggling $3 million via an Italian seashore by pretending to be making a movie. Though not one of Neil Simon's best, it still has some good laughs. Mature, as an over-the-hill actor, is great.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1972  G, 96 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Musical
Director: William Sterling
Cast: Fiona Fullerton, Michael Crawford, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Peter Sellers, Robert Helpmann, Dudley Moore, Michael Jayston, Spike Milligan, Michael Hordern, Hywel Bennett, Davy Kaye, Peter Bull, Peter O'Farrell, Roy Kinnear
Lewis Carroll's classic story of Alice's (Fiona Fullerton) adventures after falling into a rabbit hole is brought to the screen in this British musical.
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The Battle of the Sexes 1960  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Crichton
Cast: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark, Ernest Thesiger, Donald Pleasence, Moultrie Kelsall, Sam Wanamaker, Alex Mackenzie, Patricia Hayes
A British textile plant accountant (Peter Sellers) contemplates murder when an efficiency expert infringes on his space.
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 Being There 1979  PG, 130 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Hal Ashby
Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway, David Clennon, Richard Venture, Fran Brill, Denise DuBarry, Ernest McClure, Oteil Burbridge, Ravenell Keller III, Donald Jacob
Simple-minded gardener Chance (Peter Sellers) is suddenly placed in the real world instead of the television world through which he has experienced life. When asked for political and financial advice, his naive answers are mistaken for insightful, intelligent answers. Melvyn Douglas won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in his role as a political kingmaker and Peter Sellers was nominated for Best Actor.
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The Bobo 1967 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Parrish
Cast: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi, Adolfo Celi, Hattie Jacques, Ferdy Mayne, Kenneth Griffith, Al Lettieri, Marne Maitland, Guistino Durano
Desperately dreaming of starting a new career as a singer, bullfighter Juan Batista (Peter Sellers) accepts the challenge to win the attention of Barcelona courtesan Olimpia Segura (Britt Ekland) in return for a singing engagement.
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O. 1959 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Man in a Cocked Hat
Director: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell
Cast: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Thorley Walters, Ian Bannen, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, Raymond Huntley, Kynaston Reeves, Marne Maitland, Marie Lohr, Ronald Adam, Basil Dignam, Irene Handl, John Van Eyssen
Incompetent British diplomat Carlton-Browne (Terry-Thomas) is placed in charge of a British protectorate in this satire on a cog in the British colonial system. The purpose of Carlton-Browne's assignment is to prevent foreign powers from taking a rich mineral deposit that has been discovered on the island of Gaillardia. World powers do appear on the scene, and, when matters spin out of control with young King Loris (Ian Bannen) as ruler, the Prime Minister of the island, Amphibulos (Peter Sellers), undermines him and leads a revolution to overthrow the British.
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Casino Royale 1967  N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy
Director: John Huston, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish
Cast: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Daliah Lavi, John Huston, George Raft, Joanna Pettet, Charles Boyer, Kurt Kasznar, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Peter O'Toole
Special Agent 007 James Bond (David Niven) is enjoying retirement when he is coaxed back into the Secret Service after M is slain. Bond's mission is to smash the spy organization SMERSH, which is headed by the evil Le Chiffre (Orson Welles), and to accomplish that goal, agents converge on Casino Royale. Burt Bacharach provided the good musical score. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song ("The Look of Love").
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The Dock Brief 1962 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Trial and Error
Director: James Hill
Cast: Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Beryl Reid, David Lodge, Frank Pettingell, Tristram Jellinek, Audrey Nicholson, Eric Woodburn, John Waite, Frank Thornton
Aging lawyer Morgenhall (Peter Sellers) gets the chance for his big moment in court when he defends a husband accused of murdering his wife.
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying... 1964  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Thriller
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, Tracy Reed, Shane Rimmer, Jack Creley, Glenn Beck, Frank Berry, Gordon Tanner, Robert O'Neil, Roy Stephens
[Full Title: "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."] Peter Sellers plays three roles (U.S. President, British officer, and nuclear scientist) in this farce about dropping the nuclear bomb. Slim Pickens plays Major T.J. "King" Kong, a U.S. pilot flying his bomber loaded with nuclear weapons when he receives orders to attack the Soviet Union. The other planes are recalled or shot down, but Kong evades the missiles shot at him and completes his mission in a very unique way. This movie is both thought-provoking and amusing. The film received four Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Actor (Sellers), Director, and Writing). A real classic.
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Heavens Above! 1963 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Cast: Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Ian Carmichael, Bernard Miles, Brock Peters, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Miriam Karlin, Miles Malleson, Joan Miller, Roy Kinnear
The Reverend John Smallwood (Peter Sellers), a prison chaplain, is mistakenly appointed pastor of a rich church in an upper-crust English village. While the "rightful" pastor (Ian Carmichael) would have catered to the well-off parishioners, John Smallwood brings his progressive views to the job, often shocking his staid church membership.
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas 1968 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Hy Averback
Cast: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin, Herb Edelman, Grady Sutton, Sidney Clute, Roy E. Glenn Sr., Joe Dominguez
During his midlife crisis, a Jewish lawyer (Peter Sellers) becomes a hippie and drops out of society after eating some marijuana-laced treats. Sellers at his very best.
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I'm All Right, Jack 1959 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Boulting
Cast: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, Raymond Huntley, Liz Fraser, Marne Maitland, Kenneth Griffith, Fred Griffiths
This film provides great satire on the world of labor/management relations. Set in 1950s England, Oxford educated Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) takes a job as a laborer at his uncle's (Dennis Price) munitions factory. His incompetence is noticed by his fellow workers, but he gets sympathy from union official Fred Kate (Peter Sellers). Then, Stanley really messes up and finds that he has been set up by his uncle and is now in the middle of a scheme by his uncle to control his workers.
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 The Ladykillers 1955 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Katie Johnson, Jack Warner, Philip Stainton, Fred Griffiths, Sam Kydd, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Connor, Edie Martin, Ewan Roberts, Harold Goodwin
Marcus (Alec Guinness) is the leader of an inept gang of thieves planning a robbery. The gang rents apartments in elderly Mrs. Wilberforce's (Katie Johnson) London house and tells Mrs. Wilberforce that they are musicians. The ploy does not work, and when she learns the truth about them the gang decides to kill her. Bad idea–and they are thwarted by the doddering Mrs. Wilberforce.
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 Lolita 1962 N/R, 152 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Marianne Stone, Diana Decker, Jerry Stovin, Lois Maxwell, Cec Linder, Terry Kilburn
When a middle-aged professor (James Mason) becomes attracted to a 15-year-old girl (Sue Lyon), he marries her mother (Shelley Winters) in order to ensure being physically near the young girl.
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The Magic Christian 1969 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joseph McGrath
Cast: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Attenborough, Christopher Lee, Raquel Welch, Roman Polanski, Peter Graves, Yul Brynner, John Cleese
Based on Terry Southern's novel, this is the story of wealthy Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) and his son Youngman (Ringo Starr) who devise strange situations to observe how others will behave, especially when money is involved.
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The Millionairess 1960 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price, Gary Raymond, Alfie Bass, Miriam Karlin, Noel Purcell, Graham Stark
This film, based on George Bernard Shaw's play, is about the dilemma of wealthy Epifania (Sophia Loren) who meets Doctor Kabir (Peter Sellers), a man whose love she cannot buy.
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The Mouse That Roared 1959 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Arnold
Cast: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff, William Hartnell, Timothy Bateson, Leo McKern, MacDonald Parke, Monte Landis, Colin Gordon, Bill Nagy
A very small and even more bankrupt country, the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, decides to end its financial woes by declaring war on the United States. The intent is to lose the war and then receive U.S. aid to rebuild. There is much in this funny movie that relates to the world today. Also catch the funny sequel, "The Mouse on the Moon."
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Mr. Topaze 1962 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: I Like Money
Director: Peter Sellers
Cast: Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern, Martita Hunt, John Neville, Michael Gough, Billie Whitelaw, John Le Mesurier, Anne Leon
Based on Marcel Pagnot's satire, this is the story of a timid schoolteacher (Peter Sellers) who is duped into keeping silent about an unscrupulous scam. Remake of 1933's "Topaze."
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Murder by Death 1976 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Moore
Cast: Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker
This Neil Simon story is about five fictional detective heroes who receive and accept dinner invitations to an old mansion. Their host is Sheridan Whiteside (Truman Capote) who is fed up with the usual plots in mystery stories and wants his guests to solve a mystery.
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The Naked Truth 1957 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Your Past Is Showing
Director: Mario Zampi
Cast: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Miles Malleson, Joan Sims, Kenneth Griffith, Moultrie Kelsall, Wally Patch, Georgina Cookson, Bill Edwards, David Lodge, John Stuart
Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) edits a tabloid newspaper through which he blackmails British celebrities to prevent him from printing stories about them. With their backs to the wall, several of the celebrities (Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, and Shirley Eaton) plot to kill Nigel. The celebrities attempt poisoning, bombing, and even a drowning–all of which are met with amusing complications.
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Never Let Go 1960 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars, Carol White, Mervyn Johns, John Le Mesurier, Adam Faith, Noel Willman, David Lodge, Peter Jones, John Bailey, Nigel Stock, John Dunbar, Charles Houston, Cyril Shaps
Cosmetic salesman John Cummings' (Richard Todd) car is stolen by a gang of car thieves, headed by Lionel Meadows (Peter Sellers). Cummings tracks down the thieves and locates Tommy Towers (Adam Faith) who stole the car. Towers is beaten after Meadows discovers that he met with Cummings. Towers then gives inside information to the police, and, eventually, Meadows is arrested, and Cummings does recover his car.
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Only Two Can Play 1962 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Richard Attenborough, Raymond Huntley, Kenneth Griffith, John Le Mesurier, Frederick Piper, Graham Stark, David Davies
John Lewis is a dull librarian who is devoted to his wife. Then life takes a detour when he is pursued by beautiful Liz (Mai Zetterling).
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Andre Maranne, Richard Vernon, Dick Crockett, Paul Maxwell, Byron Kane, Briony McRoberts, Dudley Sutton, Hal Galili, Robert Beatty
French Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is again in charge of the case. This time, Clouseau is the intended victim of an assassination by his ex-boss who is now out of the asylum. Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) intends to take over the world. Will Clouseau avoid the killer (Leslie-Anne Down) and stop Dreyfus?
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 The Pink Panther 1963  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale, Brenda De Banzie, Colin Gordon, Fran Jeffries, John Le Mesurier, Martin Miller, James Lanphier, Guy Thomajan, Michael Trubshawe, Riccardo Billi, Meri Welles
Sophisticated jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven), a.k.a. the Phantom, is plotting to steal the Pink Panther diamond from Princess Dala (Claudia Cardinale), and French Inspector Jacques Cousteau (Peter Sellers) is on his trail. Clouseau is also trying to catch Lytton's accomplice who, unbeknownst to Clouseau, is his own wife Simone (Capucine). For years, Simone has warned her lover Lytton when Clouseau is about to catch him. Now another thief appears on the scene; he is Lytton's nephew George (Robert Wagner), and he has his own plans to steal the Pink Panther diamond. Clouseau may be inept, but the odds are in his favor that he will be successful in retrieving the Pink Panther diamond. 1 User Review
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The Return of the Pink Panther 1975 G, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Peter Arne, Gregoire Aslan, Andre Maranne, Peter Jeffrey, Eric Pohlmann, David Lodge, Graham Stark, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Mike Grady
Someone has stolen the Pink Panther diamond from the museum in Lugash, and bungling Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) heads to Switzerland believing that, once again, Sir Charles Lytton (Christopher Plummer), a.k.a. the Phantom, and his wife Claudine (Catherine Schell) are the culprits. But, Lytton is not the one who stole the diamond and is, instead, trying to track down the real jewel thief while Claudine sends Clouseau on a wild-goose chase. Meanwhile, Clouseau's boss Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) gets fed up with Clouseau's ineptness and plots to get rid of him once and for all.
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Revenge of the Pink Panther 1978 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Burt Kwouk, Paul Stewart, Andre Maranne, Graham Stark, Robert Loggia, Ferdy Mayne, Tony Beckley, Marc Lawrence, Alfie Bass, Sue Lloyd, Danny Schiller
This is Peter Sellers' last film as the bungling Inspector Clouseau. This time around, Clouseau is on the heels of an international drug trafficking ring led by drug lord Douvier (Robert Webber) who gives orders to kill Clouseau. When Clouseau's car crashes, Douvier believes that Clouseau, not an escaping criminal, was killed. Clouseau fakes his own death, and Douvier, believing he is dead, is not on the lookout for him. Now, Clouseau goes incognito to Hong Kong, and Douvier's ex-girlfriend Simone Legree (Dyan Cannon), who seeks revenge against Douvier, helps Clouseau solve the case.
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A Shot in the Dark 1964 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, Tracy Reed, George Sanders, Graham Stark, Andre Maranne, Douglas Wilmer, Vanda Godsell, Burt Kwouk, Moira Redmond, Maurice Kaufmann, Ann Lynn, David Lodge, Martin Benson
The Pink Panther series continues as Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers), the inept–but some would say brilliant–detective solves another crime. This story takes place in Benjamin Ballon's (George Sanders) mansion in the outskirts of Paris where parlormaid Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer) is accused of murdering her lover. Clouseau believes that Maria is innocent; however, Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is sure that she is guilty and is dismayed–once again–at Clouseau's handling of the case. The number of murder victims increases, but Clouseau is convinced that Marie is being framed and remains determined to prove her innocence.
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The Smallest Show on Earth 1957 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Big Time Operators
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Leslie Phillips, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles, Francis De Wolff, Sid James, Sam Kydd, June Cunningham, George Cross, George Cormack, Stringer Davis, Michael Corcoran, Lynne Roberts
Matt and Jean Spenser (Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna) inherit a dilapidated movie theater in a small British town. Also included in the deal are the drunken ticket-taker/projectionist Percy (Peter Sellers), former silent-movie organist Mrs. Fazackalee (Margaret Rutherford), and janitor Tom (Bernard Miles) who are determined to keep their beloved theater open. Matt and Jean try to make the theater look like a successful business but encounter more than a few problems–until Tom comes up with a plan to torch the competing theater. Lots of fun.
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Soft Beds and Hard Battles 1975  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Undercovers Hero
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curt Jurgens, Beatrice Romand, Rex Stallings, Jenny Hanley, Gabriella Licudi, Francoise Pascal, Rula Lenska, Daphne Lawson
You cannot win them all as Peter Sellers exemplifies in this bomb of a comedy about World War II as he takes on several roles.
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There's a Girl in My Soup 1970 R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Nicky Henson, Diana Dors, Nicola Pagett, Christopher Cazenove, Judy Campbell, John Comer, Gabrielle Drake, Thorley Walters
Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged TV personality who falls for a young woman, Marion (Goldie Hawn), who is in the middle of big marriage problems.
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Tom Thumb 1958 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Fantasy
Director: George Pal
Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Jessie Matthews, June Thorburn, Bernard Miles, Peter Butterworth, Peter Bull, Stan Freberg, Ian Wallace, Dal McKennon, Barbara Ferris
This classic story by the Brothers Grimm is about a five-inch-tall boy, Tom Thumb (Russ Tamblyn), who the magical Forest Queen (June Thorburn) gives to childless couple Jonathan and Anne (Bernard Miles and Jessie Matthews) as a gift for woodcutter Jonathan saving a tree. When villains Ivan and Anthony (Terry Thomas and Peter Sellers) plot to rob the village, Tom becomes the hero as he outwits those who are much larger than himself. Tom also helps with a romance between the Forest Queen and forester Woody (Alan Young). Good acrobatic dances by Tamblyn. The film won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
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Trail of the Pink Panther 1982 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Capucine, Robert Loggia, Harvey Korman, Burt Kwouk, Robert Wagner, Joanna Lumley, Graham Stark, Peter Arne, Andre Maranne, Ronald Fraser, Marne Maitland
The investigation involving the death of Inspector Clouseau (following Peter Seller's actual death) provides the occasion for this film to patch together previous film clips of the inspector in action.
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Two Way Stretch 1960 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Robert Day
Cast: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, Lionel Jeffries, Liz Fraser, Beryl Reid, Irene Handl, Thorley Walters, Noel Hood, Myrette Morven, George Woodbridge, Edwin Brown, Wallas Eaton
Three convicts–Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers), Jelly Knight (David Lodge), and Lennie Price (Bernard Cribbins) break out of jail to rob a maharajah, commit the perfect crime, and return to jail for the perfect alibi. With help from Soapy Stevens (Wilfrid Hyde-White), they perform the heist, but then are faced with the problem of where to store the jewels. They decide to hide them in the warden's safe, and wait to be released. That works, but problems lie in their future.
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Up the Creek 1958 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Val Guest
Cast: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Vera Day, Michael Goodliffe, Lionel Jeffries, Frank Pettingell, Reginald Beckwith, Sam Kydd, Lionel Murton, Tom Gill, John Warren, Donald Bisset, Peter Coke, Basil Dignam
Humor in United States Navy protocol is the subject of this slapstick film.
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Waltz of the Toreadors 1962 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, John Fraser, Cyril Cusack, John Le Mesurier, Prunella Scales, Denise Coffey, Jean Anderson, Raymond Huntley
Retired General Fitzjohn (Peter Sellers) feels that life has cheated him in the romance department, and he sets out to reverse that situation.
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Where Does It Hurt? 1972  R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rodney Amateau
Cast: Peter Sellers, Jo Ann Pflug, Rick Lenz, Harold Gould, Hope Summers, Eve Bruce, Kathleen Freeman, Pat Marita, Norman Alden, Keith Allison, Brett Halsey, Paul Lambert, Jeane Byron, J. Edward McKinley, Dodie Warren
In this so-so comedy, Peter Sellers plays hospital administrator Albert T. Hopfnagel who heads up a hospital staff that pulls out all stops to collect maximum insurance benefits from patients.
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Woman Times Seven 1967 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Robert Morley, Elsa Martinelli, Alan Arkin, Michael Caine, Lex Barker, Laurence Badie, Judith Magre, Catherine Samie, Zanie Campan, Robert Duranton
Shirley MacLaine takes on the diverse roles of Paulette, Maria Teresa, Linda, Edith, Eve Minou, Marie, and Jeanne in this series of seven short stories about adultery. In "Funeral Possession," a widow finds a romantic interest (Peter Sellers) at her husband's funeral. "Amateur Night" tells about an unhappy wife turning to streetwalking for revenge against her husband (Rossano Brazzi). "Two Against One" features a prudish wife who turns out to be anything but. In "Super Simone" a wife uses unique methods to get the attention of her husband (Lex Barker). "At the Opera" features a Parisian woman who will stop at nothing to own a particular designer gown. In "Suicide Pacts," a woman and her lover (Alan Arkin) make a suicide pact. Finally, in "Snow," a woman's husband hires a private detective (Michael Caine) to spy on her.
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The Wrong Arm of the Law 1962 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Cliff Owen
Cast: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Davy Kaye, Nanette Newman, John Le Mesurier, Graham Stark, Ed Devereaux, Bill Kerr, Reg Lye
Pearly Gates (Peter Sellers) heads a crime syndicate in London and calls a truce with Scotland Yard when three impostors, pretending to be British bobbies, rip-off his syndicate.
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The Wrong Box 1966 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, Cicely Courtneidge, Peter Graves
Based loosely on a story co-authored by Robert Louis Stevenson, this gag-filled farce concerns two brothers who haven't seen each other for over 40 years. They were among 12 children whose parents each put up money, now drawing interest, which will go to the last survivor. The two brothers are the last ones and each awaits getting his hands on the money. John Mills and Ralph Richardson are great as the two brothers.
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| 1. After the Fox (1966)
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
3. The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
4. Being There (1979)
5. The Blockhouse (1973)
6. The Bobo (1967)
7. Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
aka: Man in a Cocked Hat
8. Casino Royale (1967)
9. The Dock Brief (1962)
aka: Trial and Error
10. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying... (1964)
11. The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
12. Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973)
13. Heavens Above! (1963)
14. Hoffman (1970)
15. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
16. I'm All Right, Jack (1959)
17. The Ladykillers (1955)
18. Lolita (1962)
19. The Magic Christian (1969)
20. The Millionairess (1960)
21. The Mouse That Roared (1959)
22. Mr. Topaze (1962)
aka: I Like Money
23. Murder by Death (1976)
24. The Naked Truth (1957)
aka: Your Past Is Showing
25. Never Let Go (1960)
26. Only Two Can Play (1962)
27. The Optimists (1973)
28. The Party (1968)
29. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
30. The Pink Panther (1963)
31. The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
32. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
33. Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
34. A Shot in the Dark (1964)
35. The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
aka: Big Time Operators
36. Soft Beds and Hard Battles (1975)
aka: Undercovers Hero
37. There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
38. Tom Thumb (1958)
39. Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
40. Two Way Stretch (1960)
41. Up the Creek (1958)
42. Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
43. What's New, Pussycat? (1965)
44. Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
45. Woman Times Seven (1967)
46. The World of Henry Orient (1964)
47. The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962)
48. The Wrong Box (1966)
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