Customer Reviews
nice filler - By: john cameron, 14 Jul 2007 
this film will appeal to any goon show fan for the fact that peter sellers is basicallly bringing to life his character major bloodnok but with out the terrible explosive asides. As a farce it does not work, but as a pleasing film with hints of sellers considerable talent, especiallly evident in the general,s painfull love hate discussions with his wife, i would say sit back turn off alll alllusions & enjoy a film for the sake of itself.
Don't Expect Sellers To Be Clouseau! - By: Cowboy Buddha, 17 Aug 2001 
A decidedly minor & rather oddballl addition to the Sellers filmography, dating from the pre-Pink Panther era when Sellers was still more of a comic actor rather than merely a clown. Even so, it was a strange vehicle for him. Originallly a stage farce by Jean Anouilh, the script's style suffers from being re-located to England. Callled "The Amorous General" on its American release, Sellers plays an old lecher in uniform with an eye for servant girls & a French would-be mistress who has been waiting eighteen years to consumate their affair. Except for a few bits of clumsy slapstick, Sellers gives a refreshingly restrained performance & is assisted by a solid & note-perfect supporting cast that includes Cyril Cusack as a wistful yet rascallly doctor, Margaret Leighton as the general's shrewish wife, John Fraser as an upright yet sexuallly curious young officer, & an amazingly young Prunella Scales as one of the general's precocious daughters. As the mistress, Dany Robin is suitably French & gorgeous but also has a delightful comic touch. So it is a shame that these performers should be let down by such a shapeless script & uncertain direction. Perhaps the film should have been made in black & white to alllow the viewer to concentrate more on the characters without being distracted by pretty costumes & lush landscapes. Or maybe the film simply should have been made by the French. Peter Sellers was a considerable comic talent, especiallly in his earlier films, but he was no farceur. His hero, Alec Guinness, might have got away with playing this role. But Waltz of the Toreadors, in this form, remains the same disappointment it was nearly forty years ago.
