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The Party (1968)
Director: Blake Edwards
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From Time Out Film Guide
Sellers gets to do his funny accent as an accident-prone Indian actor brought to Hollywood, fired for inadvertently sabotaging the movie (a briefly hilarious parody of Gunga Din), and invited in error to a posh party at the studio chief's home. From there on, Blake Edwards flexes his Jacques Tati muscles, spinning an elaborate garland of gags around one rather drawn-out situation as Sellers - seconded by a drunken waiter and a baby elephant - innocently reduces the party by degrees to an apocalyptic shambles and his hosts to gibbering wrecks. Quite a few very funny moments, but one doesn't laugh so much as admire the ingenuity.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Blake Edwards
Producer: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion, J Edward McKinley, Fay McKenzie full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 98 mins
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