Peter Sellers Collection (I’m All Right Jack/Heavens Above!/Hoffman/Two-Way Stretch/The Smallest Show on Earth/Carlton-Browne of the F.O.)
 Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/11/2008 Rating: NrThe Peter Sellers Collection includes six British comedies in which Sellers plays leading or supporting roles. The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) is among the run of gentle British comedies in the 1950s in which outmoded and broken-down local institutions were saved by collections of committed eccentrics. Aspiring novelist Bill Travers and his wife Virginia McKenna inherit a cinema from a hitherto unknown uncle and discover that it isn’t the sumptuous modern Grand, but the decrepit Bijou, with a drunken projectionist played by Sellers. In 1959′s I’m All Right Jack, Sellers plays both Sir John Kennaway and, unforgettably, the trade union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then-burning issue of industrial relations. The brothers John and Roy Boulting also directed and produced such British classics as Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959), in which Seller’s unscrupulous prime minister is upstaged by Terry-Thomas as the idiot son of a great ambassador, and Heavens Above (1963), in which Sellers gives an unusually low-key performance as a young vicar whose tendencies to interpret Christian doctrines in his own individualistic way, rather than conform to church traditions, leads to all kinds of chaos. The great crime comedy Two Way Stretch (1960) is about imprisoned crooks who hatch a scheme to pull off a heist with a perfect alibi by breaking out, doing the job, and then breaking back in to serve out their sentences. Sellers, usually an eccentric support in these things, takes a rare lead as cocky mastermind Dodger Lane. Hoffman (1970) gives Sellers a lot of funny business, acid lines, and whimsical turns. Secretary Miss Smith (Sinéad Cusack) is blackmailed by meek, middle-aged Mr. Hoffman (Sellers) into spending a week of domesticity with him in his flat. At first, the tone is creepy, but it becomes more poignant as both characters learn to see each other as people.
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Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg
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“If it be permitted to speak of ‘love at first syllable,’ then that’s what I experienced in my first encounter with this poet of prose.” So wrote Thomas Mann of the work of Peter Altenberg. A virtuoso Fin de Siecle Viennese innovator of what he called the “telegram style” of writing, Altenberg’s signature short prose straddles the line between the lyrical and the narrative, fiction and observation, harsh verity and whimsical vignette. Inspired by the prose poems of Charles Baudelaire, the tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Viennese Feuilleton, a light journalistic reflection current in his day, Altenberg carved out a spare, strikingly modern aesthetic that speaks with an eerie prescience to our own impatient time. Peter Wortsman’s new selection and translation reads like a sly lyrical wink from the turn-of-the-century of the telegram to the turn-of-the-millennium of e-mail.
Peter Altenberg, also known as Richard Engländer, 1859–1919, was born into a well-to-do Viennese Jewish family, lived in hotels and listed as his official address the Café Central, Vienna’s intellectual clubhouse (also the sometime haunt of Leon Trotsky and his chess partner Vladimir Ilyich Lenin). A renowned eccentric, Altenberg pioneered the very notion of loose-fitting leisure attire, designed a line of necklaces and favored sandals, walking sticks, slivovitz and the company of prostitutes. His literary admirers included Karl Kraus, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Robert Musil and Arthur Schnitzler.
Recipient of the Beard’s Fund Short Story Award, Peter Wortsman is the author of A Modern Way To Die: Small Stories and Microtales and the play The Tattooed Man Tells All. His translations from the German include Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil and Peter Schlemiel: The Man Who Sold His Shadow by Adelbert von Chamisso.
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The Pink Panther: A Shot in the Dark
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Blake Edwards’s Inspector Clouseau films really took their complete shape with this second movie in the series, which features star Peter Sellers really tweaking that French accent and key supporting players Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, and André Maranne (all getting on board for the first time). The story finds Sellers refusing to believe in the guilt of a beautiful woman (Elke Sommer) accused of murder, and there are a number of hilarious sequences, including one in which Clouseau goes “undercover” at a nudist colony. Arguably the best of the films, A Shot in the Dark definitely finds Edwards honing a seamless blend of slapstick, brilliant timing, verbal wit, a great cast, and Sellers’s brilliance into a unique experience. –Tom Keogh
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Laserdisc A Shot In The Dark a Pink Panther Film Inspector Clouseau Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Tracy Reed, Blake Edwards Letterbox Format.
- Color 1 hour and 43 minutes, Digital video transfer.
- Rated PG. Digital sound. Letter-box format. Includes
- original theatrical release trailer. CX noise reduction system.
- Filmed in Panavision.
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Sequel to The Pink Panther movie. A comedy Murder Mystery.
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Peter Sellers Inspector Clouseau Pink Panther 16×20 Photo
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Show support for your favorite celebrity or athlete with a high quality photo! This 16×20 features Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther films, and will look great displayed in any fan’s home or office. Check out related items below to add a wood plaque with acrylic cover to display this great picture, or have it professionally framed and matted by Autograph Warehouse. Many other photos available, including movie stills, actors & actresses, musicians, athletes, and more! Order up to 10 or more 16x20s and pay one price for shipping!
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Greatest Comedy Cuts
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A collection of some of the finest comedy moments, from one of the UK’s best loved comics. Peter’s musical satire formed at the height of his growing fame as part of the popular and acclaimed ‘Goons’ in the Fifties, is showcased here through his sixties recordings of his incomparable versions of hit songs. Also included are his duets with Sophia Loren and the Hollies. EMI Gold. 2005.
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Mouse That Roared
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The Mouse That Roared (1959) is mostly remembered as a tour-de-force by a peerless comic actor, Peter Sellers, playing all three of the principal roles. It’s worth seeing for that reason alone, but the film is also one of the most memorable satires of nuclear geopolitics produced during the cold war and, along with another Sellers vehicle, Dr. Strangelove, provides an unbeatable illustration of the paranoia and helplessness engendered by that period.
The Mouse That Roared tells the story of the fictional European principality of Grand Fenwick. Finding itself on the wrong end of a trade dispute with the United States, and noting America’s generosity in rebuilding the countries it had fought in World War II, Grand Fenwick’s rulers hit upon the idea of declaring war on the U.S., losing, and then reaping a Marshall Plan-style handout. The plan, proposed by Grand Fenwick’s prime minister (played by Peter Sellers), is approved by the monarch (also played by Peter Sellers), who dispatches an invasion force under the command of Grand Fenwick’s hapless Field Marshal (also played by Peter Sellers). Due to a series of happenstances and misunderstandings, however, Grand Fenwick’s plan goes terribly wrong… –Andrew Mueller
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The Return of the Pink Panther
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Peter Sellers’s third go-around as the prideful but bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau is funny enough, but this 1975 Blake Edwards revival of the Sellers-Clouseau connection is a little weak in comparison to predecessors The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark (both made in 1964). Costar Christopher Plummer actually gets some of the most interesting screen time as a retired cat burglar whom Clouseau accuses of getting back into the business. (If it sounds like there might be a To Catch a Thief vibe mixed in here, you’re right.) Herbert Lom is hilarious as Clouseau’s psychologically eroding boss, and Clouseau’s ritualistic collisions with valet Cato (Burt Kwouk) are great examples of Edwards’s delicious comic timing. –Tom Keogh
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