Peter Sellers
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Language
English
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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.
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English
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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.
6) Mr. Topaze
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English
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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,...
7) The Bobo
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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...
14) The Pink panther
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Inspector Clouseau pursues a jewel thief, who, in turn, is romantically pursuing Clouseau's wife.
15) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c1979
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.
17) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, as well as an unlikely...
18) Murder by death
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An eccentric millionaire invites five world famous detectives to dinner and reveals to them that at midnight, someone in the dining room will be stabbed to death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Eager for war, a general plans a nuclear apocalypse.