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The movie with the 6 best Sellers in one!
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
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Peter Sellers Lila Kedrova Curd Jürgens Béatrice Romand Jenny Hanley Vernon Dobtcheff Douglas Sheldon Philip Madoc Patricia Burke Rula Lenska Françoise Pascal Gabriella Licudi Rex Stallings Daphne Lawson Hylette Adolphe Thorley Walters Jean Driant Basil Dignam Nicholas Loukes Stanley Lebor Gertan Klauber Barry J. Gordon Joan Baxter Nicholas Courtney Windsor Davies Stephen Greif Ian McCulloch Bruce Purchase Michael Sheard Show All…
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Soffici letti, dure battaglie, Undercovers Hero, Na Cama Venceremos a Guerra, Bomber og blonder, Party For Hitler
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UK
04 Dec 1974
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25 Nov 2022
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Germany
25 Nov 2022
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UK
24 Jan 1974
- Theatrical
USA
04 Dec 1974
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"Your husband comes first"
"After two years in a prisoner of war camp, I expect he will"Soft Beds, Hard Battles is a WWII Parisian set comedy detailing the exploits of a popular brothel - much visited by all sides - and their own surreptitious bit for the resistance and the war effort. It's a film I saw only once as a child, yet strangely, it's so familiar I can recollect it very well.
You tend to get a good idea of how much of a dud a film is when you're instantly greeted by a voice over. And when that V/O appears on the soundtrack over scenes where the actors are clearly delivering now muted lines, you know the…
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Em honra do centenário de Leo Marks.
Não, não vi Peeping Tom pela centésima vez, mas deveria porque, Zeus, que filme CHATO.
Os irmãos Boulting raramente acertam, soma-se a isso o gênio irascível do Sellers e temos uma bomba em mãos.
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A weak comedy from the Boulting Brothers showcasing a below-par Peter Sellers in seven different roles, each more stereotyped than the last.
Scripted by Roy Boulting and Leo Marks, this has the potential to be funny but misses the mark each and every time with poor puns and naff characterisations. Sellers looks bored in every scene he is in - which, given his multiple roles , is nearly every one.
The narration (again by Sellers) seems to be there to paper over cracks, and some sight gags are so painful you would rather join in the fates of the Germans who avail themselves of the brothel ladies.
A huge money loser for the Boultings, this film has interesting character names dotted through it,but they are given very little to do.
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Set in Nazi occupied Paris the film follows the goings on in a brothel as they aid the Resistance by killing German officers, making it not so much a knocking shop as a knocking-off shop.
And it's one of those films where Peter Sellers gets to play several roles, in this case a British officer, a French general, a Gestapo officer, the President of France, Hitler and most problematic of all a member Japanese royalty, which is every bit as offensive as you might imagine.
To come right to the point it's an entirely joyless affair. If you've seen any of the later Pink Panther films you'll have got the impression that Sellers is having more fun than the viewer,…
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Peter Sellers plays a bunch of different racial stereotypes, none of them making any kind of impression except for the grossly offensive Asian character. Film is set during the Second World War and sees a group of prositutes save the day against the Nazis. Despite that premise, it's a yawn, with a voiceover that is among the worst I've ever heard. Only laugh precedes The Pink Panther Strikes Again's spring bed gag, but it was done much better there. Other small highlight is seeing Rex Stallings' bare ass. It's a good ass. One of Sellers' worst films.
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