Peter Sellers
2) Mr. Topaze
Language
English
Formats
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,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of paranoia-inspired, war-happy generals manage to initiate an "accidential" nuclear apocalypse. Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson and Air Force Strategic Commander Jack Ripper, order a bomber squadron to attack the USSR. This triggers a Soviet secret weapon called the 'Doomsday Machine.' The weapon is a diabolical retaliatory missile system. In an attempt to advert this catastrophe, British Captain Lionel Mandrake becomes the only person...
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When news reaches Britain's Foreign Office indicating rich mineral deposits on the small island of Gaillardia, interest in the ex-colony is re-awakened, and bumbling envoy Cadogen de Vere Carlton-Browne is sent to investigate.
6) Hoffman
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged businessman blackmails a beautiful young secretary into spending a week with him. What begins as a seemingly sinister ordeal develops into a bond between the two.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Humbert, a divorced British professor, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte, whom he marries in order that he might pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita.
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A 'zany blend of slapstick gags and madcap comedy' this hilarious romp, starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, and Woody Allen in his acting and screenwriting debut, is the wildest, wackiest film to emerge from the swingin' 60's.
10) Two way stretch
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
This is a hilarious spoof of prison life in which Peter Sellers and his cellmates escape from jail for just one night in order to commit an outrageously funny robbery.
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly...
12) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to a powerful but dying tycoon.
13) The pink panther
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1963
Language
English
Description
Inspector Clouseau pursues a jewel thief, who, in turn, is romantically pursuing Clouseau's wife.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
Series
Publisher
Distibuted by Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When the priceless Pink Panther diamond is stolen yet again, the inimitable Inspector Jacques Clouseau is saved from an unwilling early retirement and sent off to the country of Lugash to investigate.
16) The Ladykillers
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A not-so-musically-inclined band of outlaws pose as a group of amateur musicians, while secretly plotting a major heist. But the sweet landlady, who rents them their "digs," proves to be too much for these cutthroats. They decide to get rid of her ... a task they find easier said than done.
19) The wrong box
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A strange rule of inheritance allows only the last remaining survivor of a family of siblings to get the sizable legacy, precipitating a dangerous contest between two elderly brothers. Their families get involved too, sparking a wild chase and absurd comedy as they attempt to be the last man standing.
20) Being there
Series
Criterion collection volume 864
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chance is a pure-hearted gardener forced out of moneyed seclusion and into the urban wilds of Washington, D.C., after the death of his employer. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles haplessly into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon who mistakes his new protégé's mumbling about horticulture for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife targets Chance...