By the mid-1970s, Sellers was struggling to regain his cinematic mojo and reluctantly agreed to re-team with Blake Edwards to revive "The Pink Panther" franchise. Even when he attempted to do something daring like improvise his role throughout an entire feature film in Blake Edwards' "The Party", the result was a misfire. He found steady work, to be sure, but the quality was sagging. Feldman was so fed up with Sellers' behavior on the set of "Casino Royale" that he fired him, even though Sellers had not yet completed pivotal scenes for the movie's climax. His insecurities began to affect his work habits and he became known as moody, temperamental and unreliable. Sellers was the epitome of the classic clown: laughing on the outside but crying on the inside. By the late Sixties, however, his own personal demons began to get the better of him. Through the mid-Sixties, he did impressive work in films like "After the Fox", "The Wrong Box" and "What's New Pussycat?" If the films weren't classics, at least they presented some of Sellers' off-the-wall ability to deliver innovative characters and comedic situations. Strangelove", "The World of Henry Orient" and the first entries in the "Pink Panther" series.
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After making it big on British TV and in feature films in the late 1950s, Sellers became an international sensation with his acclaimed work in big studio feature films such as "Lolita", "Dr. Although he was regarded as a comedy genius, the sad truth is that Peter Sellers was more often than not misused in big screen comedies.
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