Peter Seller's Odd Pants

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Dr Acula	Peter Seller's Odd Pants	Lead	[-]
(04/04/08 9:56 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Tags : None Just curious - having read a good bit of the Life and Death of Peter Sellers and having seen Ghost In The Noonday Sun, I've gotten interested in seeing more of his film, and in particular I was wondering if anybody had seen and could recommend any of the following lesser-known (to me at least) films: The Bobo Hoffman Where Does It Hurt? The Blockhouse The Optimists Soft Beds, Hard Battles The Prisonder of Zenda (1979) Thanks!
ryanbrennan		#1	[-]
(04/05/08 4:16 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Of the films listed I'd go with HOFFMAN and THE OPTIMISTS first. These are actually decent movies, albeit departures for Sellers. I did not like WHERE DOES IT HURT?, UNDERCOVERS HEROES (SOFT BEDS, HARD BATTLES) or PRISONER OF ZENDA. There are funny moments, but not many. THE BOBO is okay, interesting mostly because of Sellers and his supporting cast. I have not seen THE BLOCKHOUSE but by all accounts it's not good.
RatsinFleight		#2	[-]
(04/05/08 4:35 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	For Odd pants, The Bobo certainly has them. Sadly, not a very good follow up film to The Party. You have to see it to believe it. I hate being negative towards ol' Peter Sellers, because the timing is just not right, ever. Cato, Not Now!! You fuull!! Prisoner of Zenda? Murder by Death is the much better choice, Cato. I warn you.... The process is reversing itself!
captainmarvel1957		#3	[-]
(04/05/08 4:53 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I don't think I've seen any of the Sellers films you mentioned. But, stay away from The Insidious Fu Manchu at any cost! What a disappointing swan song for a great talent. The one must see, if you haven't, is Being There.
professor liebstrum		#4	[-]
(04/05/08 5:38 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I cannot recommend enough "THE NAKED TRUTH" an earlier British film, if only for the scene where PS visits the Irish pub.
Whatsallthis		#5	[-]
(04/05/08 9:38 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	THE WRONG ARM OF THE LAW is a really funny (and fun) film. Wonderful characters by Sellers and Lionel Jeffries.
Jimchig		#6	[-]
(04/05/08 10:45 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	There are tons of great movies to see his good performances. If you can locate them go for the earlier films, like I'm All Right, Jack and The Mouse That Roared, not to mention the original The Ladykillers.
Rapfred		#7	[-]
(04/05/08 3:51 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I second the Prof's recommendation for THE NAKED TRUTH, which features Sellers in several hilarious disguises, a harbinger of Clouseau shticks to come. Two to avoid: -- NEVER LET GO, a crime thriller with Sellers playing it straight and embarrassingly overwrought as a sadistic gangster. -- THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SOUP, in which P. S. plays a swinging playboy bachelor with nary a hint of irony (THE LOVE GOD? it's not.) This vanity project is almost painful to watch, what with a smug, smirky Sellers taking every opportunity to doff his kit, the better to show off his once pudgy, now rail-thin form, as well as the hairiest back this side of Elliott Gould, Ron Jeremy and George "The Animal" Steele.
Koukol 5		#8	[-]
(04/05/08 4:40 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I recommend NAKED TRUTH and LADYKILLERS.
voyttbots		#9	[-]
(04/05/08 9:15 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	WHERE DOES IT HURT? is terrible.
BijouBob8mm		#10	[-]
(04/08/08 12:56 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	WHERE DOES IT HURT? Just about anywhere a customer was sitting in the theater on that one! (And I'm a big fan of the late P.S.) PRISONER OF ZENDA does give you three times the Sellers for the money, but is not the most memorable movie of his career. THE FIENDISH PLOT OF FU MANCHU is one of those films that everyone wanted to like, because it came out after his death and we knew that was going to be it. Unfortunately, the basic premise could have been good, but wasn't. (Nice little in-joke, where Sellers as Fu Manchu looks at Burt Kwouk and says, "You look familiar." In addition to having co-starred with Sellers in the Panther films, Kwouk had also played opposite Christopher Lee's Fu Manchu in that franchise.) Still, the cast was decent, even if the script wasn't. I haven't seen the BOBO since I was in junior high, and can't remember much about it. (Ditto for another Sellers outing, 1966's AFTER THE FOX...although I do recall the cast included some impressive performers.)
My Lord Caesar		#11	[-]
(04/08/08 1:15 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I love AFTER THE FOX! Sellers is not that funny as the main character himself, but when he assumes the various roles, he's very funny. Watch his imitation of a european imitating an american- he does alot of sounds with a lot of "arrrs" in them but doesn't actually say anything! And of course Victor Mature's self parody is great and Martin Balsam as his super-cynical agent is funny as is Lando Buzzanca's star-struck local police chief ("Good Morning!!"). The real fox of the movie is Maria Grazia Buccella (who lost out to Claudine Auger for the role of Domino in THUNDERBALL). She doesn't have many lines, but she speaks with her body! And boy, does she have a lot to say! The Burt Bacharach score transports you right back to the 1960's!
Ba56		#12	[-]
(04/08/08 1:45 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH is minor Sellers, minor everything, really, but very enjoyable. Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna inherit a rundown old movie theatre, and its rundown old staff. The big competitor wants to buy it for a parking lot for his theatre. You know what happens next (no, not lions). Sellers plays the old projectionist, and (especially given that he was 32 at the time) it's a small piece of perfection. The highlight is probably the old staffers playing spliced together clips from silent movies after hours. I like this one a lot. Barry M.
BijouBob8mm		#13	[-]
(04/08/08 2:07 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna inherit a rundown old movie theatre You know, I always link real life husband & wife Travers and McKenna with BORN FREE, and tend to forget they appeared together in a number of other productions.

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