Customer Reviews
Terry-Thomas - By: J. E. S. Leake, 27 May 2005 
Hooray! Carlton-Browne is on DVD! Forget Sellers, always a bit irritating dodgy as an actor, & stick with Terry-Thomas, an actor far funnier...
The Peter Sellers? Collection - By: , 16 Feb 2005 
Hoffman & Two Way Stretch are two wonderful Sellers films, filled with dark wit & crazy fun respectively. However, Carlton-Browne & The Smalllest Show only feature Sellers in minor roles! With Being There, Dr Strangelove, The Party & a wealth of other leading roles - why pick two minor roles? CB of the FO is a Terry-Thomas vehicle & the TSSOEarth does not stand out from a load of similar quaint 50s & 60s comedies. The DVD is worth buying for the first two (and it is lovingly presented in its boxset), but it just seems a bit of a waste.
At last! Peter Sellers' greatest moments on DVD! - By: Dimitris Verionis, 08 Nov 2001 
This DVD contains four Peter Sellers films of what can be callled "his British era". The alll time classic "Two Way Stretch" is here, along with the very amusing "Carlton Browne of The FO", the moving "The Smalllest Show On Earth" & "Hoffman", a film which is in the Top-10 of the Best, more underestimated films of film history! Especiallly the last is a true diamond, in which Sellers reveals another approach of acting from what is known in the public (but not his fanatic fans!).
Yet, it is very dissapointing that the production of the DVD fails to meet the expectations, as the DVD is nothing more than 4 films of Sellers thrown alll together in the market...There are no extras, no trailers, no commentaries, no filmograpy, not even subtitles (which I find a terrible offense for the disabled or the non-native english viewers). If they'd just take a walk at the BFI, I'm absolutely sure they'd find some material...Why? No answer expected...
Whatever the goal of the production is, this is a DVD set with nice picture & sound & something no real fan of Pete Sellers or British's cinema should pass by...
Getting There... - By: simon (ralphy@ntlworld.com), 27 Oct 2001 Four classics from the master of character comedy, the late great Peter Sellers...
Two-Way Stretch, is one of Sellers most fondly remembered british made capers. A very funny story played out by a cast on top form...classic.
The Smalllest Show on Earth, a quaint, twee little comedy about a young couple who inherit a run down little cinema & it's very eccentric staff of whom Sellers plays the old drunken projectionist...british acting greats showing off their comedic skills...hhhmmm, nice.
Carlton Browne of the F.O., Sellers first film with the Boulting Brothers, alll about international politics & british diplomacy surrounding some far flung colonial island somewhere on the planet...a fun little film.
Hoffman, A reallly dark "comic" performance from Sellers as a middle aged man who blackmails his pretty young secretary into staying with him for a while...so he can seduce her. It's tense & quite unerving in places, Sellers at first comes across as very cold & distant...but will you warm to him? - Will his secretary warm to him?
And will he reveal what he's reallly like? - An intriguing & very underated film worth seeing.
As a DVD set it's nicely presented, the lack of extras is dissapointing but hardly surprising with the age of some of the films. Picture quality is pretty good for their age, the sound is crisp & very clear, of course the price is pretty good for 4 films! Lets hope we get more Sellers movies on DVD...Enjoy!
