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Classic Film Review: Edwards and Sellers crash “The Party” in Hollywood (1968)
A wicked thought crossed my mind midway through re-watching the Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers farce “The Party,” one of three times the great British funnyman donned brownface to play Indian characters. What would have happened had Sellers, a comic legend and … Continue reading
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Tagged blake-edwards, comedy, film, history, indian-stereotypes, mancini, movies, peter-sellers
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Classic Film Review: Serious and Seldom Seen Sellers — “The Blockhouse” (1973)
Filmed on the whim of a liquor empire heir, a “true story” whose German Army WWII victims were changed to French and citizens of other occupied countries, “The Blockhouse” is one of the strangest titles in the later, quixotic career … Continue reading
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Tagged aznavour, bronfman, classic-film-review, comedy, film, guernsey, movies, peter-sellers, review, Reviews, world-war-ii
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