The Best of Peter Sellers

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Anyone else think that Seller's best work was in small British films like The Wrong Arm of the Law on Channel 4 this afternoon.
Apart from one or two of the Panther films , his films were pretty dire post Strangelove.
Give me Two Way Stretch and those little gems any day.
 
I'm facinated with how it went wrong for Sellers, so I am very interested in those later films. I really like Being There and even though it was just a cameo, A Day at The Beach. Hoffman has its merits too, despite the bad ending.

I must confess to not really liking his earlier films as they are a bit too twee for my taste.
 
Agreed. The lure of Hollywood didn't do his style of comedy any favours. They were twee but had charm, which the later ones lacked, including a certain Panther.
 
I feel cheated that he did not do more "acting/black comedy" roles like Strangelove.
It is just such an amazing film and his preformance is sublime.
Stand it next to There's a Girl in my Soup.

The worst Sellers film from the lost years has to be Where does it Hurt?/ Soft beRAB, Hard Battles.

1980 - The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu
1979 - Being There
1979 - The Prisoner of Zenda
1978 - Revenge of the Pink Panther
1976 - Murder by Death
1976 - The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1974 - The Great McGonagall
1974 - The Return of the Pink Panther
1973 - The Blockhouse
1973 - The Optimists of Nine Elms
1973 - Soft BeRAB, Hard Battles
1972 - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
1970 - There’s a Girl in My Soup
1969 - The Magic Christian
1968 - The Party
1968 - I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
1967 - The Bobo
1967 - Casino Royale
1966 - After the Fox
1965 - What’s New Pussycat
1964 - A Shot in the Dark
1963 - Heavens Above!
1963 - The Pink Panther
1963 - Dr Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1962 - The Wrong Arm of the Law
1961 - Only Two Can Play
1961 - Lolita
1960 - Never Let Go
1960 - Two-Way Stretch
1960 - The Millionairess
1959 - The Mouse That Roared
1959 - I’m All Right, Jack
1958 - Tom Thumb
1957 - The Smallest Show on Earth
1957 - The Naked Truth
1955 - The Ladykillers
1954 - Orders Are Orders
1952 - Down Among the Z Men
 
If I remember it right he was originally picked to play even more roles, with Slim Pickens' Major King Kong being a late change due to ill-health. He would have been good sitting on the bomb.
 
Yeah, I read this. He got a hooky doctor to slap his leg in a cast, because he could not get the accent quite right.

I really think Lolita is an amazing film too, Sellers is good, but Mason.....WOW!
 
A Shot In The Dark was the best of the Pink Panther films - written by William Peter Blatty who then wrote the novel The Exorcist.
He was great in Dr Strangelove and Lolitta, both excellent Kubric films.
He was also great in all of his Boulting Brothers films, especially I'm All right Jack and Heavens Above.
I also love him in What's New Pussycat (written by Woody Allen).
And of course, Being There is excellent.
A pity that in his later films he was tended to be typecast in his "goony" roles
 
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