Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12754 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-10-16
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 373 minutes

Synopsis
Includes: 'Heavens Above!', 'I'm Alright, Jack', 'Only Two Can Play' and 'Very Best of Peter Sellers'.

Customer Reviews

Great selection of early Sellers films
If you don't already have any of these movies, may I recommend this box set. Three of his best British films are here, together with a compilation of many of his finest and funniest moments (This last disk would would have been better with a bit of a comemntary or an introduction, but at least it does remind you of the odd film you may have overlooked, the man was in so many).

The films here are pre-Pink Panther, pre-super stardom, pre-OTT slapstick style acting and increasingly mad movies to suit that style. They represent the best of Sellers as a very gifted comedy character actor, when he was given great roles to perform with plenty of satire in them.

I'm Alright Jack is his major breakthrough picture, a very cleverly handled satire on British industry, a triumph of a film and gave Sellers a chance to show off his character acting talent. I doubt if many really expected a performance as riveting as he gave, though, and a new movie star was born.

The rather difficult to get hold of Only Two Can Play is a classy retelling of a K.Amis novel. Sellers' carefully nuanced character portrayal and his real acting abilty goes far deeper than just comedy in one of his straightest roles, making this movie a must see for this alone. Sellers plays a character who seems to be not too far away from his own, with his desire for women giving him trouble keeping his marriage together.

It's back to the Boulting Bros. for Heavens Above, and it's another fine character portrayal by PS, in a typical BB satire, very satirical and sharply observed. A lovely selection if you don't yet have these fine movies, and a great reminder of his immense acting talent.

Great collection - ignorant cover notes
It's great to have such classic films in one collection, but who wrote the cover notes? Apparently, in "I'm All Right, Jack", Sellers plays "a naïve ex-soldier who unwittingly ends up as a pawn in the machinations between management and the trade unions". Surely, Fred Kite is one of Peter Sellers' most significant rôles. If Studio Canal / Optimum Releasing are going to employ copywriters, can they please employ people who know and care about what they are doing! Fortunately, the inner notes for the individual films make good the mistake.