Peter Sellers
Author
Language
English
Description
In settings as diverse as a struggling advertising agency, a bookstore, and a large computer company, the protagonists in Kickback and Other Stories find duplicity, betrayal, and sudden violence. As so often in life, there are no heroes, and it's often hard to tell who is the greater villain.
Author
Language
English
Description
During the D Day invasion, seven men find themselves trapped in an underground German blockhouse after heavy shelling seals it. Although the place is well stocked with candles, food and wine, they are forced to wait 6 years for rescuers. Everyone has differing coping skills in dealing with their virtual incarceration and miraculously, two men survived. Based on a frighteningly true story.
10) Mr. Topaze
Author
Language
English
Description
Honest French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) is fired after refusing to alter the bad grades of a baroness' grandson. Sensing an opportunity, actress Suzy (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, corrupt city council member Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his businesses to mitigate any suspicion. When Topaze learns he is being used, he decides to swindle his manipulators. Based on a Marcel Pagnol play,...
11) The Bobo
Author
Language
English
Description
Peter Sellers, Britt Eklund and Rossano Brazzi star in this comic farce about a shy, bumbling, third-rate, singing matador with dreams of becoming Spain's most popular troubadour, but who is generally known as The Bobo. This man, whose moniker is the Spanish word for "fool," earns a chance for a star booking-and fame-if he can woo and win the heart of Barcelona's most beautiful temptress, an unconquerable blonde who leaves a trail of broken hearts...
12) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A feeble-minded gardener whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television is sent out into the real world when his employer dies. Equipped with his prize possession, his remote control unit, the gardener encounters a series of hilarious events.
Publisher
universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1975
Language
English
Description
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the world's most inept detective, is back on the job, tracking down the stolen Pink Panther diamond. Believing that the Phantom, a retired jewel thief, is responsible, Clouseau relies on his special brand of sleuthing to help him solve the case.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
An utterly original comic drama about two Manhattan schoolgirls (newcomers Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth), both from broken / breaking homes, who conceive mad crushes on a pompous, ridiculous, deplorably bad pianist, the titular Orient (played with magnificent aplomb by Peter Sellers). As they trail him, with enviable freedom, from one New York haunt to another, they somehow bust up his every romantic intrigue, even as they embark on their own painful...
Series
Publisher
MGM (Video & DVD)
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Peter Sellers is "in top form" (Cue) in this zany adventure that finds the accident-prone InspectorClouseau using some of his most outlandish disguises ever. With "ferociously funny karate encounters" (Time) with the enigmatic Cato (Burt Kwouk) and dangerous intrigue with a sexy Russian spy (Lesley-Anne Down), this hysterical comedy will strike your funny bone! Driven over the edge by the maddeningly incompetent Clouseau, former Chief Inspector Dreyfus...
18) Mr. Topaze
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
Honest French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) is fired after refusing to alter the bad grades of a baroness' grandson. Sensing an opportunity, actress Suzy (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, corrupt city council member Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his businesses to mitigate any suspicion. When Topaze learns he is being used, he decides to swindle his manipulators. Based on a Marcel Pagnol play,...