IT WAS the moment that changed British TV comedy forever: 10pm, February 24th 1956, when Associated-Rediffusion, in all their independent majesty, let...
A GREAT big, sprawling, ill-disciplined countercultural satire adapted by Terry Southern and Joe McGrath from Southern’s own novel, this is possibly the...
If Being There was worth an Oscar, this deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
The definitive Sunday afternoon film, equally ideal for our patented ‘timing the Sunday roast by Sir Rich Ralphardson’s antics’ scheme, or a...
This high-hat Lion Films chamber piece is eighty minutes of Ealing-equalling brilliance, with Pe’er Se’ers’ masterfully sozzled Percy the projectionist upstaged only...
No amount of brow-creasing analysis into the allegorical meaning of this film can mute its sheer unalloyed delight as Alec Guinness plays...
The black and white Peter Sellers comedy is near enough a genre in itself, encapsulating as it does a certain time frame...
A reunion of Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Peter O’Toole (and for added Casino Royale fanboy laffs, this also briefly features Richard...
Peter Sellers is Robert Danvers, a vain, rotten telly personality not too unlike Wee Sonny MacGregor from The Naked Truth. Unfortunately, unlike...
“Special delivery! A beumb! Were you expecting one?” Final Sellers outing with a string of limp ‘funny costume’ set pieces and Lom,...
Mid-period mad scientist slapstick of Sellers vs. Lom – stand by to tick off Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Leonard Rossiter, Richard ‘Slartibartfast’...
Here’s the first of the films, with David Niven as Sir Charles Phantom (the notorious pink Litton), Robert Wagner and John Le...
‘Put on lots of perfume, Miss Smith! Everywhere! I like it!’ Sellers comes up trumps as the titular sad case businessman trapping...
This Peter Sellers Jewish lawyer dropout comedy counted as satirical once upon a time but just counts as impishly cute now. Sellers...
Ropey, ‘troubled’, bizarre-in-the-worst-way last hurrah from Peter Sellers, who plays both Sax Rohmer’s titular mastermind (in latex make-up and corny accent) and...
Americo-Brito-Italian comedy by Neil Simon, wherein Peter Sellers, yet again as a criminal plotting an elaborate robbery, gets to try out endless...
Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas star in the same film and still it’s not very good! At least this lesser Boulting comedy of...
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