| |
|
Director |
Henry Hathaway |
|
Year |
1950 |
|
Synopsis |
Sellers provides the un-credited voice for Alfonso Bedoya.
|
|
Cast |
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Peter Sellers. |
|
Director |
Tony Young |
|
Year |
1951 |
|
Synopsis |
The Goons' first big romp on the big screen. Hard to find. |
|
Cast |
Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Alfred Marks, Paddy O'Neil. |
|
Director |
Alan Culimore |
|
Year |
1951 |
|
Synopsis |
Short featuring two of the Goons. |
|
Cast |
Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan. |
|
Director |
Maclean Rogers |
|
Year |
1952 |
|
Synopsis |
(Maltin) Creaky vehicle for radio's The Goons
in story of criminals who visit a small town to steal a professor's
secret scientific formula. Some good bits, especially Sellers' doing
impressions of Yank soldiers, but overlooked with dull song-and-dance numbers by a
female chorus line. |
|
Cast |
Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Carole Carr, Spike Milligan, Clifford Stanton,
Graham Stark, Miriam Karlin. |
|
Director |
Noel Langley |
|
Year |
1954 |
|
Synopsis |
A rich society girl is marooned on an island. Peter Sellers provides the voice
of the parrot. |
|
Cast |
Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More, Peter Sellers. |
|
Director |
David Paltenghi |
|
Year |
1954 |
|
Synopsis |
(Maltin) Hancock as befuddled lieutenant is best
item in this slapstick yarn of a movie company using an Army barracks for
headquarters. Based on 1932 play, filmed once before. |
|
Cast |
Margot Grahame, Maureen Swanson, Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Sidney James. |
|
Director |
William Fairchild |
|
Year |
1955 |
|
Synopsis |
The adventures of two children who runaway to London. Peter Sellers plays a
police constable. |
|
Cast |
Colin Gibson, Lesley Dudly, Noelle Middleton, Peter Sellers. |
|
Director |
Alexander Mackendrick |
|
Year |
1955 |
|
Synopsis |
(Maltin) Droll black comedy of not-so-bright crooks
involved with seemingly harmless old lady. Guiness scores again (even his
teeth are funny) with top notch supporting cast in this little Ealing Studios
gem, written by William Rose. |
|
Cast |
Alec Guiness, Katie Johnson, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers,
Danny Green, Frankie Howerd. |
|
Director |
Ronald Neame |
|
Year |
1956 |
|
Synopsis |
(Maltin) Good WW2 spy yarn based on true story
of Allies planting elaborate red herring to divert attention from invasion
of Sicily. |
|
Cast |
Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen
Boyd, Peter Sellers. |
|
Director |
Richard Lester |
|
Year |
1956 |
|
Synopsis |
From what I've seen of it, an ingenious and hilarious precursor to Python type sketch comedy. |
|
Cast |
Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Valentine Dyall . |
|
Director |
Richard Lester |
|
Year |
1956 |
|
Synopsis |
FA continuation of the series with a bigger cast. |
|
Cast |
Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Valentine Dyall, Graham Stark, Kenneth Connor. |
Idiot Weekly, Price 2d (TV)
|
Director |
Richard Lester |
|
Year |
1956 |
|
Synopsis |
I don't really know anything about this one. |
|
Cast |
Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Valentine Dyall, Graham Stark, Kenneth Connor. |
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn
|
Director |
Joseph Sterling |
|
Year |
1956 |
|
Synopsis |
A short Goon Show casted film. |
|
Cast |
Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery. |
Your Past is Showing/The Naked Truth
|
Director |
Mario Zampi |
|
Year |
1957 |
|
Synopsis |
(Maltin) Droll hijinks of a strange grouping of
folks brought together to rid themselves of the editor of a smut-expose
magazine. |
|
Cast |
Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Dennis Price, Shirley Eaton. |
|
Director |
Leslie Arliss |
|
Year |
1957 |
|
Synopsis |
A short with Peter. |
|
Cast |
Peter Sellers |
Yes, It's the Cathode Ray Tube Show (TV)
|
Director |
?? |
|
Year |
1957 |
|
Synopsis |
Ah, those Brits and their convoluted titles. An animated show. |
|
Cast |
Michael Bentine, David Nettheim, Peter Sellers. |
The Smallest Show on Earth
|
Director |
Basil Dearden |
|
Year |
1957 |
|
Synopsis |
(Maltin) Charming, often halarious comedy about
a couple who inherit a run-down movie house and its three equally run-down
attendants. |
|
Cast |
Bill Travers, Virginia Mnkenna, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Bernard
Miles, Leslie Philips. |
The April 8th Show (Seven Days Early) (TV)
| Director |
?? |
| Year |
1958 |
| Synopsis |
"Hey Nigel, watch tele last
night? Did you catch The April 8th
Show?"
"No, never 'erd of it. Oh, do you
mean The April 8th Show, Seven Days
Early?"
"Yeah, that's it."
"No, missed that I'm afraid." |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Mario
Fabrizi, Harry Fowler, Patricia Hayes, David Lodge, Graham
Stark. |
| Director |
George Pal |
| Year |
1958 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Excellent
children's picture with Tamblyn as tiny Tom Thumb, taken in by
kindly couple but exploited by villainous Terry-Thomas and henchman
Sellers. |
| Cast |
Russ Tamblyn, June
Thorburn, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Alan Young, Jessie Matthews,
Bernard Miles. |
| Director |
Val Guest |
| Year |
1958 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Broad naval spoof
a la MR. ROBERTS, which leans too much on slapstick rather than
barbs; Hyde-White is best as nonplussed admiral. |
| Cast |
David Tomlinson, Wilfrid
Hyde-White, Peter Sellers, Vera Day, Michael
Goodliffe. |
| Director |
John Boulting |
| Year |
1958 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Carmichael works
for his uncle and unwittingly upsets an elaborate and crooked
business scheme in this memorable comedy. Sellers wonderful as labor
leader. Scripted by Frank Harvey, John Boulting, and Alan Hackney,
from Hackney's novel Priva te
Life. |
| Cast |
Ian Carmichael,
Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Margaret
Rutherford, Dennis Price, Irene Handl, Miles
Malleson. |
The Running, Jumping, & Standing Still
Film
| Director |
Richard Lester & Peter
Sellers |
| Year |
1959 |
| Synopsis |
Goofy short. I believe it's
available on the latest release of A Hard Day's Night. |
| Cast |
Richard Lester, Peter
Sellers, Spike Milligan, Leo McKern. |
Man In A Cocked Hat/Carlton-Browne Of The
F.O.
| Director |
Jeffrey Dell, Roy
Boulting |
| Year |
1959 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Screwball farce
about Island of Gallardia, a British protectorate forgotten for 50
years; when rediscovered, bumbling Terry Thomas of the Foreign
Office is left in charge. |
| Cast |
Terry-Thomas, Peter
Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Thorley Walters, Ian Bannen, John Le
Mesurier, Miles Malleson. |
| Director |
Jack Arnol |
| Year |
1959 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Hilarious satire
about the Duchy of Grand Fenwick declaring war on the U.S. Sellers
stars in three roles, equally amusing. Gag before opening titles is
a masterpiece. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg,
David Kossoff, William Hartnell, Monty Landis, Leo
Mckern. |
| Director |
Robert Day |
| Year |
1960 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Wry shenanigans of
Sellers, et al. as prisoners who devise a means of escaping to
commit a robbery and then return to the safety of their
cells. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Wilfrid
Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries, Liz Fraser, Maurice Denham, Bernard
Cribbins, David Lodge. |
| Director |
Charles
Chrichton |
| Year |
1960 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Sparkling British
comedy with macabre overtones; Sellers is elderly Scotsman
comtemplating murder. Supporting cast keeps this
moving. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Robert
Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson
Clark. |
| Director |
Anthony
Asquith |
| Year |
1960 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Loren is a heiress
who thinks money can buy anything, until she meets Indian doctor
Sellers, who won't sell his principles, or his love. Sophia is
stunning, but this adaption of G. B. Shaw's play is a heavy-handed
comedy. |
| Cast |
Sophia Loren, Peter
Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis
Price. |
| Director |
John
Guillermin |
| Year |
1960 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Sellers gives
heavy-handed performance as ruthless and sadistic racketeer in weak
story about car thievery. Billed as his first dramatic role, it was
a poor choice. |
| Cast |
Richard Todd, Peter
Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars, Carol White, Mervyn
Johns. |
The Road to Hong Kong (Guest Star)
| Director |
Norman Panama |
| Year |
1962 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Final ROAD picture
was the first in a decade, and while it's fun it lacks the carefree
spirit of its predecessors; Bob and Bing are con men who become
involved in international intrigue-and space travel! Sellers has a
hilarious cameo; Lamour app ears briefly as herself. Look fast for
the Bob Crosby band. |
| Cast |
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Joan
Collins, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell, Peter
Sellers. |
| Director |
Sidney Gilliat |
| Year |
1962 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Well-intentioned
filming of Kingsley Amis novel, striving for quick laughs rather
than satire. Sellers is librarian flirting with society women
Zetterling. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Mai
Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth
Griffith. |
The Dock Brief/Trial And Error
| Director |
James Hill |
| Year |
1962 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Sellers is aging
barrister who incompetently represents accused killer Attenborough
with strange results; pleasant comic satire. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Richard
Attenborough, Beryl Reid, David Lodge. |
| Director |
Peter Sellers |
| Year |
1962 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Subdued satirical
remake of TOPAZE, with Sellers the timid schoolteacher who becomes
an unsrupulous businessman. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray,
Herbert Lom, Leo McKern, Martita Hunt, John Neville, Michael Gough,
Billie Whitelaw. |
| Director |
Stanley
Kubrick |
| Year |
1962 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Sexually
precocious Lyon becomes involved with stolid professor Mason, and
bizarre Sellers provides peculiar romance leading to murder and
lust. Screenplay for this genuinely strange film os credited to
Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote the novel of the same name, but bears
little relation to his actual script, which was later published.
Winters is outstanding as Lyon's sex-starved mother. |
| Cast |
James Mason, Shelley
Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon, Marianne Stone, Diana
Decker. |
Waltz Of The Toreadors/Amorous General
| Director |
John
Guillerman |
| Year |
1962 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Jean Anouilh's
saucy sex romp gets top notch handling with Sellers as the retired
military officer who still can't keep his eye off the
girls. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Dany Robin,
Margeret Leighton, John Fraser. |
| Director |
Cliff Owen |
| Year |
1962 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Wacky comedy spoof
has Australian trio being chased by police as well as crooks because
they've been dressing as cops and confiscating loot from apprehended
robbers. Some very funny moments. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Lionel
Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Davy Kaye, Nanette Newman, John Le
Mesurier, Dennis Price. |
| Director |
? |
| Year |
1963 |
| Synopsis |
Animated Goons on
TV. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Spike
Milligan, Henry Secombe. |
| Director |
John Boulting |
| Year |
1963 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Wry satire on
British clergy life, with Sellers top-notch as the reverend who
becomes bishop on outer space. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Cecil
Parker, Isabel Jeans, Eric Sykes, Bernard Miles, Ian Carmichael,
Irene Handl, Brock Peters, William Hartnell, Roy Kinnear, Joan
Hickson. |
Carol for Another Christmas
| Director |
Joseph
Mankiewicz |
| Year |
1964 |
| Synopsis |
Penned by Rod Serling and
filled with great performances dealing with an unconventional and
apparently controversial story about a post-apocalyptic scrooge.
|
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, George C.
Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, James
Earl Jones. |
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop
Worrying And Love The Bomb
| Director |
Stanley
Kubrick |
| Year |
1964 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) U.S. president
must contend with the Russian and his own political and military
leaders when a fanatical general launches A-bomb attack on U.S.S.R.
Sellers plays the president, British captain, and mad inventor of
the Bomb in this brilliant blac k comedy, which seems better with
each passing year. Sellers' phone conversation with Soviet premier
is classic. Outstaning cast, incredible sets by Ken
Adam. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, George C.
Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, James
Earl Jones. |
| Director |
Blake Edwards |
| Year |
1964 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Delightful caper
comedy introduced bumbling inspector Clousaeu to the world (as well
as the cartoon character featured in the opening title), so obsessed
with catching notorious jewel thief "The Phantom" that he isn't even
aware his quarry is als o his wife's lover! Loaded with great
slapstick and especially clever chase sequence; beautiful European
locations, memorable score by Henry Mancini. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, David Niven,
Capucine, Robert Wagner, Claudia Cardinale, Brenda DeBanzie, John Le
Mesurier, Fran Jeffries. |
| Director |
Blake Edwards |
| Year |
1964 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Second Inspector
Clouseau comedy is far an away the funniest, with the great
detective convinced gorgeous Sommer is innocent of murder despite
all evidence to the contrary. Gaspingly hilarious farce never slows
down for a second, with memorable scene in a nudist colony. Script
by Edwards and William Peter Blatty; fine Henry Mancini score.
Serious debuts of Lom, Kwouk. Stark and Maranne. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer,
George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Tracy Reed, Graham Stark, Burt
Kwouk. |
The World Of Henry Orient
| Director |
George Roy
Hill |
| Year |
1964 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Marvelous comedy
of two teenage girls who idolize eccentric pianist (Sellers) and
follow him around New York City. Bosley and Lansbury are superb as
Walker's parents, with Thaxter appealing as Spaeth's understanding
mother. Screenplay by Nunnal ly and Nora Johnson, from her
novel. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Tippy
Walker, Marrie Speath, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Phyllis
Thaxter, Tom Bosley. |
| Director |
Clive Donner |
| Year |
1965 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Disturbed fashion
editor O'Toole goes to psychiatrist Sellers for help with romantic
problems, but Sellers is even crazier than he. Woody Allen's first
feature as actor and writer, and like many of his comedies, one sits
through a lot of misfire d gags to get to a few undeniable gems. Hit
title song by Bert Bacharach and Hal David. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Peter
O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss, Woody Allen,
Ursula Andress. |
After The Fox/Caccia Alla Volpe (Also Song
Composer)
| Director |
Vittorio De
Sica |
| Year |
1966 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Not always
succesful comedy of Italian con man Sellers, who poses as a movie
director. A must-see for Mature's performance as a fading romantic
with tremendous ego. Script by Neil Simon. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Victor
Mature, Britt Ekland, Martin Balsam. |
| Director |
Jonathan
Miller |
| Year |
1966 |
| Synopsis |
Peter Sellers as the King
of Hearts. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Anne-Marie
Mallik, Wilfrid Brambell, Alan Bnenett. |
| Director |
Bryan Forbes |
| Year |
1966 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Scramble for
inheritance is bases for wacky black set in Victorian England; aging
Mills attempts to do in brother Ricahrdson (with help form family
cohorts) in order to be sole survivor. Sellers has hilarious cameo
oddball doctor. based on a Ro bert Louis Stevenson story. Scripted
by Larry Geleart and Bert Shevelove. |
| Cast |
John Mills, Ralph
Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman,
Wilfred Lawson, Tony Hancock, Peter
Sellers. |
| Director |
Robert Parish |
| Year |
1967 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Misfire comedy
casts Sellers as aspiring singing matador who's promised a booking
if he can seduce Ekland, the most desirable women in Barcelona,
within three days. Filmed in Spain and Rome. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Britt
Ekland, Rossano Brazzi, Adolfo Celi, Ferdy
Mayne. |
| Director |
John Huston, Ken Hughes,
Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, Val Guest. |
| Year |
1967 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Gigantic, overdone
spoof of James Bond films with Niven as the aging secret agent who
relinquishes his position to nephew Allen and host of others. Money,
money everywhere, but film is terribly uneven-sometimes funny, often
not. Good score by B urt Bacharach, including hit song "The Look of
Love." |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Ursula
Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet, Woody Allen,
Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, John Huston, George
Raft, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jackie (Jacqueline)
Bisset. |
| Director |
Vittorio De
Sica |
| Year |
1967 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) A seven-episode
film with McLaine showing seven types of women; some funny moments,
some perceptive comments, but with that cast and director, it should
have been much better. |
| Cast |
Shirley MacLaine, Peter
Sellers, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lex Barker, Elsa
Martinelli, Robert Morley, Patrick Wymark, Adrienne Corri, Alan
Arkin, Michael Caine, Anita Ekberg, Philippe
Noiret. |
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
| Director |
Hy Averback |
| Year |
1968 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Excellent comedy
about the freaking out of mild-mannered L.A. lawyer. Sellers has
never been better. Written by Larry Tucker and Paul
Mazursky. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Jo Van
Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van
Patten. |
| Director |
Blake Edwards |
| Year |
1968 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Side-splitting
gags highlight looselt structured film chic Hollywood party attended
by bumbling Indian actor. Doesn't hold up to the very end, has some
memorable set-pieces. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Claudine
Longet, Marge Champion, Denny Miller, Gavin Macleod, Steve Franken,
Carol Wayne. |
The Magic Christian (Also Screenwriter)
| Director |
Joseph McGrath |
| Year |
1969 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) In a series of
wacky schemes, the world's wealthiest man and his protege wreak
havoc on society by demonstrating how people will do anything for money. Fiendishly funny
adaptation of Terry Southern's insane novel, scripted by Southern
and McGrath, with contributions from Sellers, Cleese, and
Chapman. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr;
guest stars Richard Attenborough, Christopher Lee, Raquel Welch,
Laurence Harvey, Yul Brynner, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Spike Milligan,
Dennis Price, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Roman
Polanski. |
| Director |
Alvin Rakoff |
| Year |
1970 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Very odd, low-key
dual character study with Sellers blackmailing young bride-to-be to
spend weekend with him. Slightly over-long; great
performances. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Sinead
Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch, Ruth Dunning. |
'Wiltons' - The Handsomest Hall in Town
(TV)
| Director |
? |
| Year |
1970 |
| Synopsis |
Sellers as a stage actor
performing circa 1880. Apparently a great performace. |
| Cast |
Bill Fraser, Spike
Milligan, Warren Mitchell, Peter Sellers. |
There's A Girl In My Soup
| Director |
Roy Boulting |
| Year |
1970 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Middle-aged
Sellers groping for youth, woos kookie Hawn. Silly story, just a few
real laughs. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn,
Tony Britton, Nicky Henson, Diana Dors, Nicola Pagett, Christopher
Cazenove. |
| Director |
Simon Hesera |
| Year |
1970 |
| Synopsis |
Hard to find and hard to
watch. |
| Cast |
Mark Burns, Beatie Edney,
Fiona Lewis, Jack MacGowran, Peter
Sellers. |
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
| Director |
William
Sterling |
| Year |
1972 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Tedious British
film version of Lewis Caroll's classic proves Americans don't have a
monopoly on making bad children's musicals. Waste of a good
cast. |
| Cast |
Fiona Fullerton, Michael
Crawford, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Peter Sellers, Dudley
Moore, Michael Jayston. |
| Director |
Rod Amateau |
| Year |
1972 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Abysmal, tasteless
"comedy" about hospital run by corrupt Sellers, staffed by
money-hungry incompetents. Good cast wasted. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Jo Ann
Pflug, Rick Lenz, Harold Gould, Hope Summers, Eve Bruce, Kathleen
Freeman. |
| Director |
Clive Reeds |
| Year |
1973 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Dismal, downbeat
story of laborers trapped in underground bunker when the Allies land
at Normandy on D-Day. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Charles
Aznavour, Per Oscarsson, Peter Vaughan, Jeremy Kemp, Alfred
Lynch. |
| Director |
Peter Medak |
| Year |
1973 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Absolutely
atrocious pirate comedy which understandably never got full-fledged
theatrical release. Milligan, who's credited with "additional
dialogue," appears in one sequence with his onetime Goon Show colleague Sellers, but even their
chemistry can't save this turkey. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Anthony
Franciosa, Spike Milligan, Clive Revill, Peter Boyle, Richard
Willis. |
| Director |
Anthony
Simmons |
| Year |
1973 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Entertaining
comedy-drama of London busker (street entertainer) Sellers and the
two tough little kids he takes in hand. Songs by Lionel Bart include
effective "Sometimes". |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Donna
Mullane, John Chaffey, David Daker. |
| Director |
Joseph McGrath |
| Year |
1974 |
| Synopsis |
I saw this when I was a
kid. I didn't think it was very good. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Spike
Milligan, Julia Foster, John Bluthal, Victor
Spinetti. |
The Return Of The Pink Panther
| Director |
Blake Edwards |
| Year |
1975 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Fourth PANTHER
film, and first with Sellers since A SHOT IN THE DARK. Inspector
Clousaeu is superb comedy character, but director-writer Edwards
thinks big, violent gags are funny. Best part of this diamond-heist
farce is the opening title, ani mated by Richard Williams abd Ken
Harris. Immediate sequel-THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN!-is much
better. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Christopher
Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Peter Arne,
Gregoire Aslan, Andre Maranne, Victor
Spinetti. |
Undercovers Hero/Soft Beds And Hard Battles
| Director |
Roy Boulting |
| Year |
1975 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Inept WWII
"comedy," with Sellers in six roles, including Hitler; a total dud.
Made in 1973, barely released here. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Lila
Kedrova, Curt Jurgens, Beatrice Romand, Jenny Hanley, Rex
Stallings. |
| Director |
Robert Moore |
| Year |
1976 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Capote invites
world's greatest detectives to his home and involves them in a
baffling whodunit. Neil Simon spoofs such characters as Charlie
Chan, Miss Marple, and Sam Spade in this enjoyable all-star comedy,
with marvelous sets by Stephen Grimes. Simon followed this with THE
CHEAP DETECTIVE. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Peter Falk,
David Niven, Maggie Smith, James Coco, Alec Guinness, Elsa
Lanchester, Eileen Brennan, Nancy Walker, Estelle Winwood, Truman
Capote. |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
| Director |
Blake Edwards |
| Year |
1976 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Fifth PINK PANTHER
is one of the funniest. Sellers' former boss (Lom) goes crazy,
threatens to destroy the world with a ray-gun he has comandeered.
Sellers' hilarious Inspector Clouseau is backed up by
better-than-usual gags-with the usual number of pain-and-destruction
jokes thrown in for good measure. Sequel: REVENGE OF THE PINK
PANTHER. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom,
Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Andre
Maranne. |
Revenge Of The Pink Panther
| Director |
Blake Edwards |
| Year |
1978 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Sellers' final
go-round as bumbling Inspector Clouseau is one of the dullest, until
a bright wrap up in Hong Kong with some good sight gags and plenty
of spark from Cannon. The "plot" has Clouseau supposedly murdered,
allowing him to find "killer" incognito. Followed by TRAIL OF THE
PINK PANTHER. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom,
Robert Webber, Dyan Cannon, Burt Kwouk, Robert Loggia, Paul Stewart,
Andre Maranne, Graham Stark, Ferdy Mayne. |
| Director |
Hal Ashby |
| Year |
1979 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) A childlike man
(Sellers) chances to meet important, powerful people who interpret
his bewildered silence as brillance. Low-keyed black humor, full of
savagely witty comments on American life in the television age, but
fatally overlong. Adapted by Jerzy Kosinski from his own story.
Douglas won Oscar as political kingmaker. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Shirley
MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard
Basehart, James Noble, David Clennon. |
| Director |
Richard Quine |
| Year |
1979 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Famous
swashbuckler is played for laughs, but there aren't any. A return to
the kind of picture that helped to destroy Sellers' until the second
series of Clouseau comedies rescued it. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Lynne
Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra, Jeremy
Kemp, Catherine Schell. |
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
| Director |
Piers Haggard |
| Year |
1980 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin)Disastrous comedy
features Sellers in dual role, as the title character and as his
archenemy, Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith. Painfully unfunny
and, sad to say, Sellers' last film. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, Helen
Mirren, Sid Caesar, David Tomlinson, Simon Williams, Steve
Franklin. |
Trail of the Pink Panther
| Director |
Blake Edwards |
| Year |
1982 |
| Synopsis |
(Maltin) Attempt to fashion
a new Pink Panther film, despite the death of series star Sellers,
using previously unseen footage and new linking material. It almost
works-until the seams begin to show, as reporter Lumley seeks out
the people aho knew Clouse au for the TV story. Lom does have a sidesplitting scene in which he
tries to eulogize his long-time nemesis-and can't stop laughing.
Filmed at the same time as subsequent CURSE OF THE PINK
PANTHER. |
| Cast |
Peter Sellers, David Niven,
Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley, Robert Wagner,
Capucine, Robert Loggia, Harvey Korman, Burt Kwouk, Graham Stark,
Peter Arne. |
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