I saw this movie when it first came out in 1965. It was sort of like a comedy on steroids...
We look back on the works of Peter Sellers and Woody Allen now with routine acknowledgment of their comic genius, but imagine seeing them early on in their careers-and together!! Sellers' lecherous grins and comments are priceless. Allen's dysfunctional paranoid inferiority complex got its start here. And Peter O'Toole, not normally seen as a comedian, plays his role with understated humor. The result was, as they say, synergistic---the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. I have never laughed so hard in my life. The car chase scene, particularly with Sellers in a go cart, grinding away through a vegetable market, literally made me fall out of my seat, in tears, I laughed so hard...it actually hurt my stomach.
If you haven't seen it, rent it. Great fun.
We look back on the works of Peter Sellers and Woody Allen now with routine acknowledgment of their comic genius, but imagine seeing them early on in their careers-and together!! Sellers' lecherous grins and comments are priceless. Allen's dysfunctional paranoid inferiority complex got its start here. And Peter O'Toole, not normally seen as a comedian, plays his role with understated humor. The result was, as they say, synergistic---the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. I have never laughed so hard in my life. The car chase scene, particularly with Sellers in a go cart, grinding away through a vegetable market, literally made me fall out of my seat, in tears, I laughed so hard...it actually hurt my stomach.
If you haven't seen it, rent it. Great fun.