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Dr. Strangelove or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
by Stanley Kubrick
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131 editions published between 1963 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 4,963 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A satire in which the President and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States
Being there
by Jerzy Kosinski
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54 editions published between 1979 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 2,305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to a powerful but dying tycoon
The Pink Panther
by Blake Edwards
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77 editions published between 1963 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 2,299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Inspector Clouseau pursues a jewel thief, who is romantically pursuing Clouseau's wife
Lolita
by Stanley Kubrick
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65 editions published between 1961 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 1,910 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed into a black comedy and murder mystery. The film lacks the element that enabled most readers to understand the novel--Humbert Humbert's exquisite inner voice. As a consequence the film is big, luxurious, and full of a barren, cold humor, yet a visual tour-de-force in elegant black-and-white
A shot in the dark
by Blake Edwards
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45 editions published between 1964 and 2009 in 7 languages and held by 1,367 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The bumbling Inspector Clouseau's attempt to prove the innocence of a voluptuous French maid, the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders, leads him to a nudist colony and the Parisian mansion of a French millionaire
The Pink Panther strikes again
by Blake Edwards
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48 editions published between 1976 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 1,273 WorldCat member libraries worldwide After a nervous breakdown, Chief Inspector Dreyfus builds a criminal organization devoted to the extermination of Inspector Clouseau
Revenge of the Pink Panther
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44 editions published between 1978 and 2008 in 7 languages and held by 1,085 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Inspector Clouseau pretends to be dead, adopts various disguises, and heads to Hong Kong to capture a drug lord
Casino Royale
by John Huston
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48 editions published between 1966 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 962 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Sir James Bond is persuaded to rejoin Her Majesty's secret service and head an operation to smash SMERSH
The ladykillers
by Alexander Mackendrick
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43 editions published between 1955 and 2012 in English and German and held by 902 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A not-so-musically-inclined band of outlaws pose as a group of amateur musicians, while secretly plotting a major heist. But the sweet landlady, who rents them their "digs," proves to be too much for these cutthroats. They decide to get rid of her ... a task they find easier said than done
The mouse that roared
by Leonard Wibberley
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24 editions published between 1959 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 837 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Duchess and the Prime Minister (both played by Peter Sellers) of the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick have come up with a brilliant plan to keep their country from going broke--make war on the United States, lose, then collect lots of American post-war aid
Blake Edwards' The return of the Pink Panther
by Blake Edwards
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37 editions published between 1974 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 834 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When the priceless Pink Panther diamond is stolen yet again, the inimitable Inspector Jacques Clouseau is saved from an unwilling early retirement and sent off to the country of Lugash to investigate
Alice's adventures in wonderland
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37 editions published between 1972 and 2013 in English and held by 710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A colorful musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic tale, Alice In Wonderland. Follow Alice as she ventures through the rabbit hole into the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland
The party
by Blake Edwards
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48 editions published between 1968 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Comedy about a Hollywood bigwig who is giving a party to which every climber in town wants to be invited. By mistake, an accident-prone Indian actor is invited, and the result is hilarious slapstick and a wicked and shrewd insider's view of Tinseltown
Trail of the Pink Panther
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27 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 651 WorldCat member libraries worldwide World famous detective, Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is missing and so is the Pink Panther diamond
Blake Edwards' The Pink Panther film collection
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5 editions published between 2004 and 2011 in English and Multiple languages and held by 549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "The bumbling, hilarious Inspector Clouseau is back on the case in this collectable giftset boasting five classic comedies, a bonus DVD and the incomparable comic genius of Peter Sellers!"
Blake Edwards' the return of the Pink Panther
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2 editions published between 1993 and 1999 in English and held by 429 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Inspector Clouseau is summoned to recover the world's largest diamond, stolen from a seemingly secure museum, and focuses on an English peer as the most likely suspect
I'm all right Jack
by John Boulting
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30 editions published between 1959 and 2009 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 408 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly destroying the economy while becoming the symbol of integrity for an entire nation?"--Container
What's new pussycat
by Clive Donner
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25 editions published between 1965 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 403 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A 'zany blend of slapstick gags and madcap comedy' this hilarious romp, starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, and Woody Allen in his acting and screenwriting debut, is the wildest, wackiest film to emerge from the swingin' 60's
Tom Thumb
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13 editions published between 1958 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 388 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A tiny boy has exciting adventures in a horse's ear, a mouse hole, a snail shell, a cow's throat and a wolf's belly. He also outwits a couple of thieves who wish to make their fortune by using Tom Thumb's size to their advantage
The world of Henry Orient
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17 editions published between 1983 and 2005 in English and Multiple languages and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The story of Henry Orient (Sellers), a concert pianist whose life is turned upside-down by two infatuated schoolgirls more
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Actors Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) Attempted murder Bond, James (Fictitious character) Business and politics China--Hong Kong Clouseau, Inspector (Fictitious character) Cold War (1945-1989) Criminal behavior Deception Detectives Diamonds Economic assistance Edwards, Blake, England France Gardeners George, Peter, Great Britain International relations Jewel thieves Kosinski, Jerzy, Landladies Male actors Male friendship Man-woman relationships Married people Men--Conduct of life Middle-aged men Middle-aged men--Sexual behavior Motion picture actors and actresses Motion pictures Murder--Investigation Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, New Hampshire Nuclear warfare Outlaws Savants (Savant syndrome) Sellers, Peter, Sexual ethics Social isolation Soviet Union Teenage girls Teenage girls--Sexual behavior Television viewers United States War Washington (D.C.) Wibberley, Leonard, Widows
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Alternative Names
Sellers, Peter, 1925-
Sellers, Richard Henry.
Sellers, Richard Henry, 1925-1980
Languages
English
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German (42) French (29) Spanish (25) Multiple languages (18) Italian (5) Czech (5) Japanese (1) Covers
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