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Written by James M. Tate / 7/05/2025 / No comments / al lettieri , britt ekland , comedy , europe , kenneth griffith , peter sellers , robert parrish

PETER SELLERS AND BRITT EKLAND WINDING UP IN 'THE BOBO'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNllrRDJ6cABhhEGrcfmVuAvkD93eKnP2Rs6QQcbpUXUS_VNKYM8syqmey5bdo_r4FyuxAkXn-ZdOqIOCZRgYdswx-_pfB5XjuYNXXamSyLXPX8fys7pnXMU06QVbIspaG0k8VoeKurfGJ7hPRkzSo9-cIxYsEx58qn0_pAWlFa0zBX7wjhyphenhyphena_hkA2-Qh/s1778/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-05%20at%209.07.11%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNllrRDJ6cABhhEGrcfmVuAvkD93eKnP2Rs6QQcbpUXUS_VNKYM8syqmey5bdo_r4FyuxAkXn-ZdOqIOCZRgYdswx-_pfB5XjuYNXXamSyLXPX8fys7pnXMU06QVbIspaG0k8VoeKurfGJ7hPRkzSo9-cIxYsEx58qn0_pAWlFa0zBX7wjhyphenhyphena_hkA2-Qh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-05%20at%209.07.11%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE BOBO Year: 1967 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>By the time Peter Sellers became a beloved international star in 1964 after THE PINK PANTHER, he had everything, including a second wife who was his first trophy wife in gorgeous Swedish starlet Britt Ekland, and she appeared in three of his movies including AFTER THE FOX, where her spunky style pretty much stole the show... Which almost happens in THE BOBO... yet her character's not naive and sweet but cunning and manipulative, and more beautiful than ever... playing rich Spanish men (shot in Spain) for nice things like fancy cars...

al lettieri, britt ekland, comedy, europe, kenneth griffith, peter sellers, robert parrish

PETER SELLERS AND BRITT EKLAND WINDING UP IN 'THE BOBO'

Title: THE BOBO Year: 1967 Rating: ** By the time Peter Sellers became a beloved international star in 1964 after THE PINK PANTHER, he had e...

BILLIE WHITELAW, MICHAEL CRAIG & WILLIAM LUCAS IN 'PAYROLL'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYyd1FqLiQMtqfrXj97GD_-a2xr2rt-kEPFtvjUnWnbvHp9AshdbWfIVaPNYhpo4t5-AYB4eQ9djudsgWSPJFQcc6zjrzliHDscM1ZiYONYzpKrvoihtJ0z47TA_Pv_m1tIC0F2n9rT5Y3kq4yveoSp039dhkh2Rp3v8UDx2gcuCHG9tM-TC8-Jl_Yme4U/s1670/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-05%20at%2010.02.22%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="1670" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYyd1FqLiQMtqfrXj97GD_-a2xr2rt-kEPFtvjUnWnbvHp9AshdbWfIVaPNYhpo4t5-AYB4eQ9djudsgWSPJFQcc6zjrzliHDscM1ZiYONYzpKrvoihtJ0z47TA_Pv_m1tIC0F2n9rT5Y3kq4yveoSp039dhkh2Rp3v8UDx2gcuCHG9tM-TC8-Jl_Yme4U/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-05%20at%2010.02.22%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original Title: PAYROLL/I PROMISED TO PAY Director: Cliff Owen Year: 1961 Rates: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Early example of girl power encroaching a manly action flick, or more like widow power in that Billie Whitelaw only initially seems the docile suburban wife/mother, married to the literally driven creator of an armored vehicle... Whose invention thwarts a gang's plan to rob a factory safe, now mobile... but the equally driven and dangerous Michael Craig (contrasting to the heroic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/Misland.html">MYSTERIOUS ISLAND</a> role) is hell-bent on the blag going down...

armored car, billie whitelaw, british neo noir, françoise prévost, glyn houston, heist, jazz score, keith faulkner, kenneth griffith, michael craig, pauline shepherd, sixties, tom bell, vanda godsell, william lucas

BILLIE WHITELAW, MICHAEL CRAIG & WILLIAM LUCAS IN 'PAYROLL'

Original Title: PAYROLL/I PROMISED TO PAY Director: Cliff Owen Year: 1961 Rates: *** *1/2 Early example of girl power encroaching a manly ac...

ZENA WALKER & DENNIS WATERMAN IN THE DRAMA 'SNOWBALL'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSxG9_0ABxRIou_HuID5GUJOXDqrS4DhLCXkz2SuxNsImcaKwFF8DLGrpUpYAksAo3TrbWNeEwy2mPH3xp0p1W4omYWU1KA1ygYHEBJV6O7tZzPqrqNIuSa_TYKt5WeiJxFz_RTqWgTGdkylJtrxyZDddggJojrBVuxrk3ii_E-fwmVJuDhGcLbdPQA/s1423/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="1423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSxG9_0ABxRIou_HuID5GUJOXDqrS4DhLCXkz2SuxNsImcaKwFF8DLGrpUpYAksAo3TrbWNeEwy2mPH3xp0p1W4omYWU1KA1ygYHEBJV6O7tZzPqrqNIuSa_TYKt5WeiJxFz_RTqWgTGdkylJtrxyZDddggJojrBVuxrk3ii_E-fwmVJuDhGcLbdPQA/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zena Walker in SNOWBALL Year: 1960 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>A unique<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20neo%20noir"> British New Wave/Kitchen Sink melodrama</a> involving how fate works... not the first or last... and SNOWBALL is set in some pretty warm weather, so the title's about gossip gaining momentum... And all because of child actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dennis%20waterman">Dennis Waterman</a> as an English suburban kid who shares to his parents and neighbor how a bus driver dumped him off: having to walk home four miles — the last stretch of that seemingly breezy stride opening the movie with credits shown...

british new wave, daphne anderson, dennis waterman, gordon jackson, kenneth griffith, melodrama, roddy mcmillan, sixties, zena walker

ZENA WALKER & DENNIS WATERMAN IN THE DRAMA 'SNOWBALL'

Zena Walker in SNOWBALL Year: 1960 Rating: *** A unique British New Wave/Kitchen Sink melodrama involving how fate works... not the first ...

NANETTE NEWMAN WITH LIZ FRASER IN 'THE PAINTED SMILE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmz_7sDAH8QecjLZkxwQS-3N0UgzMPr8qH4uYwo7iGNhYYtAnf8rjamq4iwdigOaCe4gF0P4AY8pt6KhdOFmY0uA4c-mTxjYRcfHDj66ri4wl37q0w-s6hr_R7vaJOhPO0IVQsLGJEmee5pbkyqKaHZF4AiRf6W7oAY6J1abxN9AKUOtRoje_dW5WIaAW/s2080/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-23%20at%2012.32.04%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="2080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmz_7sDAH8QecjLZkxwQS-3N0UgzMPr8qH4uYwo7iGNhYYtAnf8rjamq4iwdigOaCe4gF0P4AY8pt6KhdOFmY0uA4c-mTxjYRcfHDj66ri4wl37q0w-s6hr_R7vaJOhPO0IVQsLGJEmee5pbkyqKaHZF4AiRf6W7oAY6J1abxN9AKUOtRoje_dW5WIaAW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-12-23%20at%2012.32.04%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nanette Newman in THE PAINTED SMILE Year: 1962 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Somewhat complicated British Neo Noir with two separate stories that eventually connect, connected to a murder that begins with a scheming couple who make their living taking a targeted man back home: a sultry blonde Liz Fraser does the rudimentary work while her partner Mark (Peter Reynolds), plays the angry jealous husband aka the badger game... But while Liz's Jo Lake arrives at a nightclub to find the right prey, back home Peter's killed by a brooding crippled psychopath played by Kenneth Griffith, usually cast as a wimp but not here...