The party / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; The Mirisch Corporation presents a Blake Edwards production ; screenplay, Blake Edwards, Frank Waldman and Tom Waldman ; produced and directed by Blake Edwards.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: K1365 | Kino LorberSeries: KL studio classics | KL studio classicsPublisher: [New York, New York] : Kino Lorber, [2014]Description: 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Director of photography, Lucien Ballard ; production design, Fernando Carrere ; film editor, Ralph E. Winters ; associate producer, Ken Wales ; music, Henry Mancini ; story, Blake Edwards.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY Party | Available | 33111008282903 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Peter Sellers plays a bumbling foreigner once again (but this time he's not from France) in this cult-favorite comedy. Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) is an accident-prone actor from India who has come to California, hoping to make a name for himself in Hollywood movies. However, Bakshi quickly makes the wrong impression on producer C.S. Divot (Gavin MacLeod) and studio chief Fred Clutterbuck (J. Edward McKinley) when he accidentally blows up the set for his first film. Clutterbuck jots down Bakshi's name to remind himself to have the actor blacklisted, but he doesn't realize that he's put the name on the guest list for an upcoming party at his home. Bakshi sees the social event as an opportunity to get back in Clutterbuck's good graces, but from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong, with increasing effect; it doesn't help that he finds himself infatuated with Michele Monet (Claudine Longet), Divot's latest starlet discovery. Director Blake Edwards shot The Party with a minimal script to allow Peter Sellers and the other comic actors greater room for slapstick improvisation, which helps explain why many of the film's most memorable scenes feature little or no dialogue. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.
Special features: Inside The party featurette; The Party Revolution featurette; Original theatrical trailer; Blake Edwards profile; Walter Mirisch profile; Ken Wales profile.
Director of photography, Lucien Ballard ; production design, Fernando Carrere ; film editor, Ralph E. Winters ; associate producer, Ken Wales ; music, Henry Mancini ; story, Blake Edwards.
Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Natalia Borisova, Marge Champion, Corinne Cole, Frances Davis, Steve Franken.
A no-name actor is invited to an exclusive party at a film producer's home after a clerical error gets him on the list, where he proceeds to accidentally dismantle the producer's carefully staged event.
Not rated.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1), Dolby digital stereo.