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The Party **** (1968, Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Natalia Borisova, Marge Champion, Steve Franken, Fay McKenzie, Denny Miller, Buddy Lester, Jean Carson) – Classic Movie Review 8868

Director Blake Edwards’s 1968 comedy The Party is a sometimes underestimated, often hilarious vehicle for Peter Sellers, reprising his strictly non-PC Indian turn from The Millionairess as clumsy Indian film extra Hrundi V Bakshi, in […]

Aug, 26

The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] **** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King) – Classic Movie Review 7365

Directors Hal Roach and Charles [Charley] Rogers’s 1933 comedy The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s first and perhaps best operetta send-up (in this case of Daniel F Auber’s 1830 comic […]

Jul, 29

The Goose Steps Out ***½ (1942, Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Ustinov, Frank Pettingell, Julien Mitchell, Barry Morse, Peter Croft) – Classic Movie Review 4554

Will  Hay’s outrageous 1942 British farce is an intriguing and endearing collision between wartime morale-boosting propaganda and slapstick comedy, made at the height of World War Two. Its idea to ‘poke fun at the hun’ […]

Oct, 28

The Pink Panther ***** (1963, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 394

The Pink Panther is actually a diamond – and so is Peter Sellers’ 1963 comedy gem. Peter Sellers’s immortal, beloved Inspector Jacques Clouseau character made his delightful début in 1963 here in The Pink Panther […]

Nov, 11

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