The Party
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The Party is a 1968 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. The film has a very loose structure, and basically serves as a series of set pieces for the comic talents of Sellers. The minimal plot has Sellers playing a well-meaning but hapless Indian man (with some similarity to Inspector Clouseau) being accidently invited to a showbiz party where he causes havoc. In the film, Sellers' character drives a Morgan threewheeler car, as a symbol of his absurdity. Sellers would play another Indian man in his hit film The Millionairess.
The film remains popular among fans of Peter Sellers as one of his most inventive comic roles, much of which was improvised at the time of filming.
The score of The Party was by Henry Mancini, including the song "Nothing to Lose."