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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

Time Out Film Guide


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  • Schitzwatz said...
    Posted on Jun 02 2010 08:29 One of mine and Peter Sellers' favourites. Very, very funny and great period piece.
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