tom thumb (1958)
Dec 18, 2000Miniature Boy/Fairy Tale
George Pal adapts the Brothers Grimm fairytale with Russ Tamblyn as a miniature youth amid colourful effects and extended slapstick scenes
Peter Sellers
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Feb 2, 1999The World's Smallest Country Invades the USA
Peter Sellers comedy where the smallest country in the world invades the USA and ends up accidentally winning
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
Aug 14, 2000Screwball Comedy
After a decade, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby returned for their sixth and final Road movie. Both they and the knockabout comedy are on great form with the show taking on the influence of the 60s spy movie fad and even sending them to The Moon
Dr Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Nov 16, 2001Nuclear War Black Comedy
Stanley Kubrick decided the only way to make a film about nuclear war was to resort to black comedy. Aided by three sidesplitting performances from Peter Sellers, the result are mercilessly funny
Casino Royale (1967)
Aug 7, 2001James Bond Spoof
During the James Bond craze of the 1960s, the only Ian Fleming novel not owned by Albert R. Broccoli was turned into a giant farce. The film has five directors, a host of stars (including three playing Bond) and is an incoherent mess
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
May 6, 1999Alice in Wonderland Adaptation
A live-action film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland that conducts a passable run through of Lewis Carroll with the supporting characters populated by an all-star British cast
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Aug 14, 2001Bumbling Police Inspector Comedy
Fourth of the Peter Sellers Pink Panther films, this lets all restraints go and becomes completely madcap
Being There (1979)
Jan 15, 2019Complete Innocent/Satiric Fable
The penultimate screen role of Peter Sellers, a sublimely deadpan satire in which he plays a gardener with the blank innocence of a child whose simple-minded utterances are taken as words of great profundity
The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu (1980)
Jul 4, 2002Fu Manchu Spoof
Peter Sellers’ last film and usually lambasted by his fans. Spoofing the great villain, Sellers indulges his penchant for playing multiple roles and the result is some likeable silliness