The Party
The Party is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. The film has a very loose structure, and essentially serves as a series of set pieces for Sellers's improvisational comedy talents. Based on a fish-out-of-water premise, the film is about a bungling actor from India, Hrundi V. Bakshi (portrayed by Sellers), who accidentally gets invited to a lavish Hollywood dinner party and "makes terrible mistakes based upon ignorance of Western ways".
Plot
A film crew is making a Gunga Din-style costume epic. Unknown Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) plays a bugler, but continues to play after repeatedly being shot and after the director (Herb Ellis) yells "cut." Hrundi then accidentally blows up an enormous fort set rigged with explosives, ruining the film. The director fires Hrundi immediately and calls the studio head, General Fred R. Clutterbuck (J. Edward McKinley). Clutterbuck writes down Hrundi's name to blacklist him, but he inadvertently writes it on the guest list of his upcoming dinner party.
More details
| author | Blake Edwards |
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| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Blake Edwards |
| editor | Ralph E. Winters |
| genre | comedy western |
| keywords | baby elephant blacklist crush cry dinner party embarrass film crew fire department good time gunga din herb ellis hippie macaw manneken pis morgan morgan motor company movie actor nothing open paint park pass psychedelic music screen test serve set set construction stetson hat steve franken toilet paper toy gun wait western movie wyoming |
| musicBy | Henry Mancini |
| producer | Blake Edwards |
| productionCompany | The Mirisch Corporation |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | dance slapstick |