The Party (DVD, 2001, Avant-Garde Cinema)

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~

this is one of the best peter sellers movies ever,so dumb its funny is will have your sides splitting

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awesome movie. recommend to all if you enjoy pure humor. great old school humor at its best. I have been wanting to buy this movie for a few years now. and finally had an opportunity to buy it, the best choice yet.

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.

This Movie titled the Party, is about the funniest movies, ever. I just love it,cause it just holds you spellbound with laughter. I had seen it once, so I decided to buy it when I had a chance, and that chance came along on E-Bay.

An absolute must for Peter Seller lovers! This is movie is the most entertaining and funny movie. My whole family loves it, young and old. If you haven't seen this movie, and you like Peter Seller, you must get a copy for yourself. Guaranteed success! I was very happy to find it on eBay.

If i was sent to the moon and had a choice of 4 movies to take this one would be on the list.
Most people have never seen this movie but before you depart this world you must seen this FUNNY FUNNY movie.
i just had to have it in the DVD version.

I saw this movie years ago and in my opinion it was the funniest movie Peter Sellers ever made. I bought it so that my kids can watch it and they enjoy it just as much as I did... nonstop laughing. It's a great movie and I'm glad It's part of my movie collection.

what can you say about the legendary peter sellers. i,ve seen all of the pink panther movies & assumed i,d seen the best best of his movies. then my mother told me about this one & I first was skeptical. It started out out funny right from the first scene. the most hilarious scene was when he lost his shoe in the mansion where the party was happening when it fell into the indoor pool. only peter sellers could make a movie like this & get away with it.

This Movie is a favorite of Peter Sellers fans. A true comedy of errors in which Sellers plays a bumbling Hindu that turns a party and all of its guest on their ears. A true party to remember.

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!

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.

This movie is vintage Sellers. His script was only 60 pages long, most all of it was improvisation. May not be "pc" so to speak, but it isn't vulgar.

Rumours of a remake in the works could never compare. Sellers is irreplaceable as the horrible new Martin Pink Panther movies have proven.

I had a copy of this movie on VHS tape but wanted to have a DVD of it. I have watched this movie several times and laugh very hard at it each time! Even if you are home sitting by yourself watching this movie about a party starring Peter Sellers and so many other funny people you will feel as if you are in the party, too! The movie is fun for the nostalgia, Peter Seller's comic genius portraying a Middle Eastern Indian and Steven Franken who plays a drunken alcoholic beverage server at the party will have you laughing throughout the entire show! Enjoy!

Love everything about it. Just came across it on Ebay and I decided to buy it because I lost my first copy.

I bought this movie as a Christmas gift because the reviews said it was hilarious and because it is not available to rent. Not only was it not very funny, but it dragged on and on. It was not a good movie and made a terrible gift.

I was surprised--This falls short of Sellers' typically excellent wit. His accent is excellent. But British humor is normally superior because it relies on word-play; this film, on the other hand, is a pastiche of sight-gags and pratfalls, most of which are predictable and tired. Still, this is an older movie, and the gags might have been fresh when it was released and have become dated only because of their repetition in American sit-coms.

This was a movie that I saw with my dad when it first came out. My dad laughed so hard at the beginning scenes he fell off the theatre seat. I wanted to watch it again to see if it was still as funny. Unfortunately, it was difficult to get through the whole movie. I guess because I'm not a Peter Sellers fan, it just didn't strike me as funny, only ridiculous.

I will definitely order again. Very quick, accurate, and easy sale. I received my order in 3 days. Perfect condition. Great price.

great price, great seller! i especially like the tracking code they sent me via email. i was able to see the status of my item.

I have all his movies. He was a Brilliant actor for all the comedies he made. No one could, match his performance as a comedian, not even now days!

This is one of the funniest movies ever made. It's a cult classic and one of Peter Sellers's best movies. You will laugh your butt off throughout the whole movie as he stumbles his way through a high level Hollywood party.

I had seen the movie several years ago and liked it; although an old movie, the product was still good