Perhaps the first time that a major comic actor (i.e., Peter Sellers) improvised his way through a scene to this degree. And in a tragic sexual melodrama yet. I’m trying to think of another film over the last 30 or 40 years, one with this kind of dark shading, which took occasional time-outs for diseased loony improv from a skilled comedian.

July 11, 2008by Jeffrey Wells47 Comments