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Peter Sellers' unique ability to completely assume and become different and quite unique characters, while being hysterically funny, makes this movie a Life Lesson without our even realizing it. It questions the roles we assign to others, the judgments we make about People and Their Proper Places in this world...Many of Sellers movies do this...as we laugh at his antics until the tears flow, we aren't even aware at the pathos behind the character(s) he presents, so masterful an actor was he. This movie is no exception to the Sellers genius in action. What at first was a cruel and career-damaging judgment made against Our Hero is misinterpreted by another by merest circumstance... (or...some other Greater force???) Our Hero is thrust into The Company of those whose favor he so wishes to attain...and yet, despite all of his best efforts to shoot himself in the foot, he emerges as Himself...the one person in the movie who is authentic and true to Who He Really Is...Good, bad, or hilariously out-of sync, we love this man...this is One Party you don't want to miss!Read full review
I love Peter Sellers. I've watched all his "Pink Panther" movies. He is funny just by his simple gestures, without talking. In this movie, he's a terrible Indian actor, who the film company hires to play a part (like in "Gunga Din"), but not only is he bad, he accidently blows up the final set before they were ready to film it. He mistakely gets invited to a dinner party, hosted by the studio boss & his wife. Every crazy gag you can imagine happens to him - you will laugh & laugh till it hurts! Director Blank Edwards saw something in him early on in his career, and his film credits keep building with very funny comedies. If you love Peter Sellers - see him in an earlier film titled "After The Fox". I'm sure you'll really enjoy it. If you're a big Peter Sellers or Director Blake Edwards fan, you have to see this movie - The Party.Read full review
I'm not kidding when I say "The Party" with Peter Sellers goes down as one of the all-time great comedies. True story: I was at a buddies house up north skiing once, trying to sleep on his couch and just couldn't fall asleep. So I turned on the TV and found this movie. It's like 2:30 a.m. and I start laughing - laughing so damn hard it woke up my buddy and his wife and they came downstairs and watch the rest of it with me! We were all crying. Filmed in the 1960s, it's a PG-rated movie that the entire family can watch. I love the "Pink Panther" movies with Sellers, but have to say this one is his best. At one point I laughed so hard my socks rolled up and down! Don't go out and rent it - buy it. You'll want to share it with your friends. Pat S.Read full review
Producer and Director Blake Edwards and comic actor Peter Sellers are delightfully matched up in this film about Hollywood's 1960's elitist snob culture. Sellers plays a bumbling Indian actor Hrundi V. Baskshi who, after ruining a film production in progress, is accidentally invited to a party that Hollywood mogul's Fred Clutterbuck is throwing--for the best of all people, only, of course. Like the antics of TV's "Monk," Sellers' typically shrewd antics are performed like straight-faced schtick and a riot and a half. It's an hour and 39 minutes of clean fun; with subtitles in English, French, and Spanish. Claudine Longet (formerly Andy Williams' wife) stars and sings in this show. The musical score is by Henry Mancini. Sellers is quite understatedly amusing in each of his caricatures~Read full review
As a longtime fan of Peter Sellers, the discovery of this gem years ago was priceless. Filmed in 1968, it is another in the broad farce tradition that he became so well known for. A lot of physical comedy, and hilarious sight gags pepper this film the entire length. Scene after scene, Sellers is his usual hysterically funny self - bumbling thru a high-class Hollywood party, to it's ultimate demise and the near destruction of the host's posh home. The period clothing, mannerisms, decor, and social structure is all here. If you really want to laugh, and already enjoy Peter Sellers, you will be delighted with this movie.
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