The Party
Year: | 1968 |
Production Co: | The Mirisch Corporation |
Director: | Blake Edwards |
Writer: | Blake Edwards |
Cast: | Peter Sellers |
While the movie concentrates on the terminally polite actor alone (just watch the excruciating trapped tie sequence), it's a blast. As soon as director Edwards tries to engage other characters, such as the hippie kids with the elephant, Sellers has to lose the aspects of the character that make it so funny.
But perhaps 90 odd minutes of the same thing would have ended up dragging the whole thing down.