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PETER SELLERS OVERTAKES WOODY ALLEN'S 'WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?'

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BLAKE EDWARDS REDIRECTING PETER SELLERS FOR 'THE PARTY'

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PETER SELLERS GETS COMPLETELY VICIOUS FOR 'NEVER LET GO'

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David Lodge and Peter Sellers in NEVER LET GO Year: 1960 Rating: **** A British Neo Noir cross between DEATH OF A SALESMAN before and DEATH ...

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PETER SELLERS, BRITT EKLAND & VICTOR MATURE 'AFTER THE FOX'

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PETER SELLERS GHOSTING THROUGH 'TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER'

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BLAKE EDWARDS RETURNS WITH 'CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

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PETER SELLERS FINISHING ON 'REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

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Title: REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1978 Rating: **1/2 The last PINK PANTHER movie starring Peter Sellers was the first time he was com...

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PETER SELLERS STRIKES IN 'THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN'

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PETER SELLERS RETURNS IN 'THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER'

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Title: THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1975 Rating: *** Sir Charles Litton in the original 1964 classic THE PINK PANTHER was a soph...

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PETER SELLERS TAKES 'A SHOT IN THE DARK' WITH ELKE SOMMER

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PETER SELLERS STEALS 'THE PINK PANTHER' FROM DAVID NIVEN

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EDWARD G. ROBINSON IN 'BLACK TUESDAY' WITH PETER GRAVES

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EDWARD G. ROBINSON BUSTS ADAM WILLIAMS IN 'VICE SQUAD'

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VAL GUEST DIRECTS STANLEY BAKER IN HAMMER'S 'HELL IS A CITY'

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TV MINISERIES 'HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY' WITH STANLEY BAKER

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WILLIAM LUCAS, ZENA WALKER & DAVID GREGORY 'THE MARKED ONE'

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JACQUELINE ELLIS HITCHES JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'THE HI-JACKERS'

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SUSAN SHAW AND PAUL CARPENTER IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

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Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: **** Canadian actor turned British movie stock American character Paul Carpenter had one of the smooth...

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SUSAN SHAW & DONALD HOUSTON IN WOLF RILLA'S 'THE LARGE ROPE'

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Donald Houston and Peter Byrne in THE LARGE ROPE Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 Before becoming known as THE LONG ROPE, director Wolf Rilla's...

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JIM O'CONNOLLY'S 'SMOKESCREEN' STARRING PETER VAUGHAN

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STANLEY BAKER IN CY ENDFIELD'S AIRLINE DISASTER 'JET STORM'

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Stanley Baker in JET STORM Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 The Pink Floyd lyric "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" cou...

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BURT LANCASTER DRIVING JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'S 'THE TRAIN'

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Title: THE TRAIN Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Not since Jean Renior's French classic LA BÊTE HUMAINE has the rugged, grimy, grungy and grai...

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ENA HARTMAN, TOM SELLECK & MARTA KRISTEN 'TERMINAL ISLAND'

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ROBERT WISE NOIRISH THRILLER 'THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL'

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Title: THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 If anyone but subtle Italian actress Valentina Cortese had starred in Robert Wi...

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Title: MASK OF DUST Year: 1954 Rating: ** One of the greatest titles for a race car movie, Terence Fisher's pre-horror Hammer MASK OF DU...

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TED KOTCHEFF DIRECTS SYLVESTER STALLONE IN 'FIRST BLOOD'

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Title: FIRST BLOOD Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2 When rural sheriff Brian Dennehy drives ragged drifter Sylvester Stallone from one side of a o...

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GENE HACKMAN COMMANDS TED KOTCHEFF'S 'UNCOMMON VALOR'

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Randall Tex Cobb & Kelly Junkerman in UNCOMMON VALOR Year: 1983 Rating: **** Recently, three important people connected to 1983's UN...

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