Another one of those films I'd only seen bits of in the past, and being a Peter Sellers one, I thought I'd do it full justice with a complete viewing, and the thing that surprised me, was with Bryan Forbes writing the screenplay, based on a Kingsley Amis story, he didn't have his gorgeous wife Nanette Newman in the film, which had a bevy of beauties, and also because Peter Sellers tried to have Virginia Maskell, who played his wife, removed from the film - I suspect this is when Sellers started his "f**k you" phase, when he thought he could throw his weight about, and one cannot help wonder if this played a small part in Maskell committing suicide not long after, aged only 32.
Anyway, a slow burn comedy drama with a number of familiar faces, and the sexy Mai Zetterling playing the rich wife looking for playthings to mess around with, in this film being Sellers.
Not one of Sellers best, and a film he would always later slag off as being a failure and hand his investments back in it, which then went on to become quite a successful film at the time, so he shot himself in the foot.
Some of the other familiar faces :-
Raymond Huntley, John Le Mesurier (brilliant!), Graham Stark, Richard Attenborough, Meredith Edwards and the only genuine Welshman - the funny Kenneth Griffith. Film was set in the fictitious Aberdarcy, Wales, where Sellers plays a sexually frustrated librarian.
