It was even better than the Pink Panther movies. Although some people think a white man portraying an Indian is racist, it is Peter Sellers! Sellers was believable as an Indian, and the movie was a comedy - so filled with stereotypes. Actually, though, Sellers' Indian is the least comical and most human character. He played an Indian Clouseau, but his clumsiness was a complete satire of 60s Hollywood. The usual stuffy, humorless studio bosses thinking of only dollars and cents, and an Indian actor ruins their film but is accidentally invited to their party of snobs. He is clumsy, but were they really the cause of their own demise? The bored waiter who gets drunk. Sellers' character does not drink. He is life in this dull party. The old studio boss scowls and complains about his crazy wife who is obviously bored to tears with suburban housewife life. Gavin MacLeod's character practically rapes a woman. And along come the bored children of the stuffy suburbanites to polish off the stuffy party. This movie really captures the spirit of Hollywood in the 1960s, and is funny and heartwarming at the same time. "Birdie Num, Num" was classic. Most of the actors were relative unknowns as well. This made one of the coolest and most fun movies I have ever watched.
