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Director:
John Guillermin
Writers:
Peter De Sarigny (story)
Alun Falconer (writer)
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Release Date:
14 June 1963 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
Peter Sellers in a new and exciting role!
Plot:
A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure. | add synopsis
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Great classic with a great cast more (12 total)

Cast

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Richard Todd ... John Cummings

Peter Sellers ... Lionel Meadows
Elizabeth Sellars ... Anne Cummings
Adam Faith ... Tommy Towers
Carol White ... Jackie
Mervyn Johns ... Alfie Barnes
Noel Willman ... Inspector Thomas
David Lodge ... Cliff
Peter Jones ... Alec Berger
John Bailey ... Mackinnon
Nigel Stock ... Regan
John Le Mesurier ... Pennington
John Dunbar ... Station Sergeant
Charles Houston ... Cyril Spink
Cyril Shaps ... Cypriot
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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
UK:PG (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Australia:M | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Chichester Road, London, England, UK more
Company:
Julian Wintle/Leslie Parkyn Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When Richard Todd is talking to the police outside the run down building that houses Mervyn Johns' flat, there is a peeling poster on the wall advertising the 1955 production of the play The Remarkable Mr Pennypacker starring Nigel Patrick and Elizabeth Sellars. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000) (TV) more

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Great classic with a great cast, 22 September 2005
9/10
Author: michelerealini from Switzerland

As I'm a Peter Sellers fan I discovered this film by chance on DVD... I was totally amazed by the story and the acting. All the cast is TOP, but I was mostly surprised by Peter Sellers -here he's not comical or funny at all, here he's a villain, a gangster. He's so good in the performance that you hate him -as a character, of course!

A salesman is victim of a theft. His car is stolen by a disbanded young who works for a car seller, a criminal who soups up engines for selling them again.

Not only Peter Sellers is excellent, the other great actor is Richard Todd. He's moving in the part of the salesman, obsessed by the search for his car and the will to show his wife (Elizabeth Sellars) he's not a loser. Adam Faith (one of the first rock singers in Britain before the Beatles and the Stones...) is the young thief.

The film has rhythm and is very realistic -for its time it's strong, fight scenes are quite violent. The film is in the wave of "Look back in anger", "Saturday night and Sunday morning". There's rage and a touch of "Free cinema", even if director John Guillermin has a more commercial style and later went to Hollywood for directing blockbusters like "The Blue Max", "The towering Inferno" and "King Kong".

A great classic, by the way.

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