While this boxed set doesn't feature the true "best Sellers," these six films are representative of this consummate character actor's chameleonesque range. In The Smallest Show on Earth (1957), Sellers plays a drunken projectionist in a decrepit movie house inherited by Born Free couple, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, while the satirical comedy I'm All Right Jack (1959) finds the actor in a dual role. In Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959), more a Terry-Thomas vehicle, Sellers is an opportunistic prime minister on a former, godforsaken British colony, while in Two Way Stretch (1960), he is one of three convicts who scheme to break out of prison to commit an audacious heist and then break back in. In Heaven's Above! (1963), one of the best in this set, Sellers takes on the role of an unorthodox young vicar. Finally, in Hoffman (1970), the buried treasure of this collection, Sellers appears in a dramatic departure as a man who blackmails the office secretary he yearns for from afar into spending the weekend with him. Recommended. (K. Lee Benson)
The Peter Sellers Collection
Anchor Bay, 6 discs, 592 min., not rated, DVD: $89.98 Volume 18, Issue 2
The Peter Sellers Collection
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