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Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers is considered to be the greatest british comedian of our generation. A prolific actor who starred most famously in the series The Pink Panther. His ability to adopt not only different accents but the personality and nuances of a different culture and character captured the hearts and minds of viewers all over the world. As inspector Clouseau he is simply hilarious. Facial expression, accent, posture and dialogue and carefully considered and produced some of the scenes which have shaped observaton comedy as we know it today.
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Peter Sellers - filmography
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The Peter Sellers Story - As He Filmed It
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland
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Like many funny men considered by all to be a genius, Peter Sellers was a troubled man in private. This film, made with the approval of Sellers' family, contains footage from their private archive of home movies, discovered after his death yet filmed between 1948 and 1977, and tells the story of ..read more »
 
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from 334 members
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Being There
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »
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from 6,354 members
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Being There - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden
Director: Hal Ashby
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BEING THERE is based on Jerzy Kosinski's short comic novel about a simpleton, Chance (Peter Sellers), raised in isolation whose only education came from watching TV. When he's forced out of the house where he worked as a gardener by the death of the wealthy recluse who raised him from infancy, he's ..read more »
72%
from 455 members
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Murder By Death
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
Director: Robert Moore
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Neil Simon's screenplay is a clever spoof on murder mysteries in which eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites the world's greatest detectives to his home and challenges them to solve the perfect murder. Among the sleuths that try to solve the case are Milo Perrier (James Coco), ..read more »
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from 2,132 members
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Curt Jurgens, Lila Kedrova
Director: Roy Boulting
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A Sex based farce set in an Paris brothel during World War 2 which is trying to survive by being neutral. Sellars plays several roles including Adolf Hitler.
52%
from 293 members
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Michael Crawford, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore
Director: William Sterling
Certificate: 
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A star-studded cast feature in this musical adaptation of the classic fantasy tales of Lewis Carroll. One day young Alice (Fiona Fullerton) takes a nasty spill down the rabbit-hole and finds herself in the bizarre kingdom of Wonderland, where she encounters a number of strange and enchanted ..read more »
51%
from 351 members
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Hoffman
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Sinead Cusack, Ruth Dunning
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Certificate: 
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A middle-aged man is secretly in love with a young typist. He finds out that her fiancé is involved in criminal activities and he uses this knowledge to blackmail her into spending a week with him.
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from 297 members
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A Day At The Beach
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Mark Burns, Beatie Edney, Fiona Lewis
Director: Simon Hesera
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With an adapted screenplay by Roman Polanski, this bleak but moving 1970s film is set in a rundown British seaside resort. Bernie struggles to cope with his alcoholism as he takes his daughter Winnie on a day trip. Featuring Peter Sellers in a cameo role.
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from 79 members
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There's A Girl In My Soup
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Nicky Henson
Director: Roy Boulting
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Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn star in this adaptation of Terence Frisby's hit stage comedy. After being ditched by her sexually-liberated boyfriend, Hawn's American doe-eyed flowerchild Marion is forced to crash at the bachelor pad of Robert Danvers, star of a popular gourmet-cooking programme and ..read more »
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from 427 members
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The Magic Christian
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Peter Sellers, Laurence Harvey
Director: Joseph McGrath
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This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his ..read more »
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from 449 members
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The Party
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Gavin McLeod
Director: Blake Edwards
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Peter Sellers plays a bumbling foreigner once again (but this time he's not from France) in this cult-favorite comedy. Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) is an accident-prone actor from India who has come to California, hoping to make a name for himself in Hollywood movies. However, Bakshi quickly ..read more »
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from 2,692 members
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The Bobo
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi
Director: Robert Parrish
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Juan is a struggling singing bullfighter who manages to persuade an impresario to get him a booking in a big town. One condition of the booking is that he has to first spend an evening with Olimpia - a lady renowned for breaking hearts.
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from 128 members
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Woman Times Seven
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Elspeth March, Peter Sellers
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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Shirley MacLaine lights up the screen in this collection of seven sexy stories of love and adultery set against the romantic backdrop of Paris. Whether she's playing an amorous widow, a meek housewife gone wild or a socialite who will literally kill for a dress, Shirley MacLaine displays the ..read more »
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from 47 members
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Casino Royale
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress
Director: Val Guest, John Huston, Ken Hughes
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This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
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from 2,866 members
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Alice In Wonderland
(1966)
Starring: John Gielgud, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett
Director: Jonathan Miller
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Based on the classic book by Lewis Carroll, this version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND was originally produced for BBC1 in 1966 by Jonathan Miller, and is one of the more original and stylish adaptations to date. Drawing inspiration from Victorian photography and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Miller's vision ..read more »
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from 778 members
Currently unavailable
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After The Fox
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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Directed by Vittorio De Sica, AFTER THE FOX is collaboration between highly regarded American playwright Neil Simon and celebrated Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini on Simon's first screenplay. The film stars Peter Sellers as Aldo Vanucci, a blundering master thief. Vanucci contentedly whiles ..read more »
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from 572 members
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The Wrong Box
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Years before the story proper in THE WRONG BOX gets under way, a 'tontine' is drawn up on behalf several young British boys. Each of the boys' parents had placed £1,000 in a pool, to be invested and expanded upon. The resultant fortune will go to the last surviving member of the tontine. A series ..read more »
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from 346 members
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Simon, Simon
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Morcambe & Wise
Director: Graham Stark
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In this 1966 slapstick comedy, two crane operators distracted by some female passers-by are unable to complete their jobs, much to the consternation of their increasingly frustrated boss. Features a host of cameos from the likes of Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Morecambe & Wise, Bob Monkhouse, and ..read more »
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from 125 members
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What's New Pussycat
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen
Director: Clive Donner
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A notorious womanizer, fashion editor Michael James (Peter O'Toole) decides to seek the help of a psychiatrist when he begins to feel that his inability to commit to a relationship is adversely affecting his personal life. Desperate to remain faithful to his fiancée Carole (Romy Schneider), Michael ..read more »
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from 882 members
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Dr. Strangelove - Blu-ray
(1964)
Starring: George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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DR. STRANGELOVE is Stanley Kubrick's Cold War masterpiece. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one push of a button. And General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling ..read more »
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from 732 members
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A Shot in the Dark
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders
Director: Blake Edwards
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The French have a word for a man like Clouseau (Peter Sellers): Idiot!
Across Paris, baffled citizens want to know if the Inspector is in hot pursuit of a criminal, or just in love with one! Mistakenly assigned to a high-prestige case in which a millionaire's chauffeur has been murdered. Clouseau ..read more »
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The World Of Henry Orient
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury
Director: George Roy Hill
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Peter Sellers stars as Henry Orient, a New York concert pianist whose ego considerably outstrips his meagre talent. Yet this seems to not have blunted his charm for Valerie Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Merrie Spaeth (Marian Gilbert), a pair of barely adolescent girls who have become infatuated with him. ..read more »
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from 122 members
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Dr. Strangelove
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Certificate:
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DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is the cold war masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one ..read more »
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from 27,679 members
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Heaven's Above
(1963)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans
Director: John Boulting
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Socialist parson Peter Sellers has been appointed to the parish of an upper-class village by mistake. When he converts the aristocrats to ridiculous charity work, the whole country is in an uproar. The bishop must act before the reputation of the church becomes an even bigger laughing stock. But is ..read more »
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from 30 members
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Road To Hong Kong
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins
Director: Norman Panama
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In the seventh ROAD... movie wisecracking Chester Babcock (Bob Hope) loses his memory, it leads to a wacky espionage adventure for him and his vaudeville partner Harry (Bing Crosby). The duo's exploits take them from Sri Lanka to Hong Kong, as they contend with a comely spy (Joan Collins) and a ..read more »
60%
from 363 members
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Trial and Error
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Beryl Reid
Director: James Hill
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Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough play multiple characters in this satirical comedy, based on John Mortimer's play. Fowle (Attenborough) has murdered his wife Doris because her constant laughing finally drove him to distraction. He is put on trial and defended by over-the-hill attorney ..read more »
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from 260 members
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Waltz Of The Toreadors
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, John Fraser
Director: John Guillermin
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Fans of Peter Sellers will love the antics of the lecherous General Fitzjohn (Sellers) who is determined to get close to sexy Ghislaine (Dany Robin)...without his nagging wife (Margaret Leighton) finding out!
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from 106 members
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Two Way Stretch
(1960)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries
Director: Robert Day
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Even though the prison conditions in which Sellers and his pals live are more similar to those of a luxury hotel than a jail, they find that they must leave a day before their scheduled parole in order to pull off a jewel heist.
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Due for release on 18th June 2012
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Never Let Go
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars
Director: John Guillermin
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The life of a timid cosmetics salesman (Richard Todd) is thoroughly altered after he decides to track down the thieves who stole his car. In his first dramatic role, Peter Sellers plays the criminal mastermind behind a tough gang.
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from 353 members
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The Millionairess
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Vittorio De Sica
Director: Anthony Asquith
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Anthony Asquith, more famous for his direction of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION, here adapts the lighter, though still socially conscious Shaw play, THE MILLIONAIRESS. Sophia Loren, as the beautiful, statuesque heiress, Epifinia, can't find a man who measures up to her late father's marriage test...read more »
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from 398 members
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School for Scoundrels
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier
Director: John Boulting, Robert Asher, Mari
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The school for scoundrels is a college that teaches oneupmanship. Palfrey is the hapless new student who's unlucky in everything. Raymond Delauney is the already one-up cad who Palfrey must beat for affections of April.
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from 1,454 member
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Make Mine Mink
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, hattie Jacques
Director: Robert Hamer, Robert Asher, John Boulting
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When Dame Beatrice (Athene Syler) retires from charitable work, she finds her life rather empty. Suddenly an irresistible request to help unfortunate orphans comes along, and inspired by her maid's chequered past, takes on one final charitable challenge. An incident with a neighbours mink coat ..read more »
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from 598 members
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The Mouse That Roared
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff
Director: Jack Arnold
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The economy of the teeny-tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick is threatened when an American manufacturer comes up with an imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled wine. Crafty prime minister Count Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) comes up with a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United ..read more »
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I'm All Right Jack
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Director: John Boulting
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Though it may be distinguished by its virtuosic comedic performances from Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers, I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK, John Boulting's sly satire of class struggle, is a comic gem in its own right. The film stars Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush, a recent Oxford graduate and old money ..read more »
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from 3,670 members
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Battle Of The Sexes
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings
Director: Charles Crichton
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In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's textile business in Edinburgh, Scotland, then hires American efficiency expert Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings) to bring the business into the modern age. The House of MacPherson has long been known as a manufacturer of ..read more »
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from 608 members
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Up The Creek
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Suraiya Hyder
Director: Val Guest
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The forgotten H.M.S. Berkley has been without a commanding officer for two years in which time the skeleton crew has gone into the racketeering business with the landlord of a coastal village. When the Navy appoint Humphrey Fairweather as a long overdue replacement his unhealthy obsession with ..read more »
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from 388 members
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The Naked Truth
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Peter Sellers
Director: Mario Zampi, Robert Hamer, John Boulting
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The greedy editor of a trashy scandal magazine is confronted by several of the individuals whose lives are erroneously and luridly described in the tabloid. Their attempts to stop the publication of articles concerning themselves lead to a series of amusing events.
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The Smallest Show On Earth
(1957)
Starring: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Leslie Phillips
Director: Basil Dearden
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The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighbourhood-cinema industry. Real-life husband and wife Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna star as Matt and Jean Spencer, a middle-class couple who inherit a decrepit movie house in a tiny railroad whistle stop. ..read more »
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from 684 members
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The Ladykillers
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
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Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best, William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem. The villains plot to kill the old lady who discovers ..read more »
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Orders Are Orders
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Sid James, Tony Hancock
Director: David Paltenghi
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A sleepy army barracks is about to be overrun by a film company shooting a science fiction caper - much to the annoyance of the Divisional Commander who decides to make a surprise inspection.
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Down Among the Z Men
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Michael Bentine
Director: MacLean Rogers
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Through song and dance, funny bits, and sheer wit this comedy brings Peter Sellers and his troupe from the British radio programme "The Goon Show" together to spoof World War II espionage. In this story, a few wayward criminals get together to steal a famous professor's newly invented top secret ..read more »
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Penny Points To Paradise / Let’s G...
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe
Director: Anthony Young
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Two valuable early Peter Sellers performances, rescued from obscurity, reconstructed as completely as possible, restored and released on DVD & Blu-ray by BFI. Both films provide an important insight into British comedy history and, specifically, chart the beginning of Sellers’ rise to stardom.
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Prisoner Of Zenda
on DVD
Starring: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, Lionel Jeffries
Director: Richard Quine
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A comical remake of the drama which sees the king of Ruritiana dying in a hot air balloon whilst his eldest son plays around in London. A stand-in is called in for the old king in the form of a London cabbie, to foil the plans of evil Prince Michael.
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Where Does It Hurt?
on DVD
Starring: Peter Sellers, Jo Ann Pflug, Rick Lenz
Director: Rodney Amateau
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This hospital comedy is a tale of greed, ignorance and corruption amongst the medical profession. Peter Sellers stars the Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a crooked doctor who is talented in the arts of bill-padding and unnecessary surgery.
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Peter Sellers facts
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...Peter Sellers stars in this comedic caper as Dodger Lane, a wily thief currently serving the last couple weeks of a prison sentence along with two of his partners in crime. ...
