The Peter Sellers Centenary Collection on Blu-ray from StudioCanal in August
Following last year’s centenary celebrations of Peter Sellers, one of Britain’s most celebrated comic talents, StudioCanal is releasing The Peter Sellers Collection, arriving on Blu-Ray on 17 August 2026 under its Vintage Classics label at the pre-order price of £54.99. Showcasing the extraordinary range and enduring brilliance of a performer whose influence on British comedy remains immense, this glorious eight-disc boxset brings together a carefully curated selection of Sellers’ finest screen performances in recently restored form. Spanning a pivotal period of Sellers’ film career, The Peter Sellers Collection offers a rich journey through post-war British cinema. From sly satires and classic Ealing comedies to beloved farces and irreverent social commentaries, these films highlight the versatility, invention and comic genius that made Peter Sellers a household name.
Presented as an eight-disc boxset, the collection includes a 4K restoration of Alexander Mackendrick’s celebrated black comedy crime caper The Ladykillers (1955), also starring Alec Guinness and Cecil Parker. Basil Dearden’s charming cinema-set comedy The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) makes its debut as a newly restored 4K title, available exclusively as part of this new collection. A 4K restoration of witty political farce Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) starring the great Terry-Thomas and directed by Roy Boulting & Jeffrey Dell is also included, alongside Roy Boulting’s BAFTA-winning social satire I’m All Right Jack (1959), the film that earned Sellers widespread critical acclaim. The set continues with 4K restorations of Robert Day’s inventive comedy heist Two-Way Stretch (1960) and Sidney Gilliat’s romantic satire OnlyTwo Can Play (1962), adapted from Kingsley Amis’ celebrated novel. Also restored in 4K is the brilliantly scripted crime spoof The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963), written by renowned comedy duo Ray Galton & Alan Simpson alongside John Antrobus and directed by Cliff Owen, and completing the set is moral comedy from the legendary Boulting Brothers duo, Heavens Above! (1963). Alongside the eight features is a new 32-page booklet providing insight into these much-loved British comedy classics.
THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Katie Johnson, Jack Warner
Classic Ealing comedy in which a group of bank robbers struggle to silence the eccentric old lady who discovers their crime. Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) lives alone in King’s Cross with her parrots. She has been led to believe that the group of men renting rooms from her, Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness), the Major (Cecil Parker), Louis (Herbert Lom), Harry (Peter Sellers) and One-Round (Danny Green), are classical musicians. However, when one of the group’s cases gets caught in the door and opens to reveal, not a musical instrument, but a plethora of banknotes, the virtuous Mrs Wilberforce vows to go to the police with the identities of the men. The criminals agree that the old lady has to be killed to silence her, but will this be as straightforward as it sounds?
THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH (1957)
Directed by: Basil Dearden
Cast: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles
A young married couple inherit a small-town, run-down cinema. Spurred on by a rival cinema owner’s attempt to buy it off them, they do it up so they can eventually get a bigger sale price. However, they soon find themselves increasingly attracted to the fleapit and the three old staff members that go with it.
CARLTON-BROWNE OF THE F.O. (1959)
Directed by: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell
Cast: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Ian Bannen, Thorley Walters, Raymond Huntley, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, Marie Lohr, Ronald Adam
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. follows the story of a long-forgotten British colony suddenly becoming geopolitically hot property due to its rare mineral deposits, with the Foreign Office scrambling to reassert influence. Enter Carlton-Browne (a charmingly clueless diplomat whose only qualification is his father’s legacy and a knack for accidental diplomacy). Dispatched to the island of Gaillardia, Carlton must navigate a tangled web of Cold War tensions, royal intrigue, and Morris dancing mishaps. As rival factions vie for control and foreign powers circle like vultures, Carlton stumbles through espionage, romance, and revolution – proving that sometimes, the most unlikely man can make the biggest mess… and still come out ahead.
I’M ALL RIGHT JACK (1959)
Directed by: Roy Boulting
Cast: Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Liz Fraser, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Margaret Rutherford
Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) is an upper-class graduate who innocently accepts a job at his uncle Bettram Purcel’s (Dennis Price) missile factory. Unbeknownst to Stanley, his uncle has an agenda where he plans for his nephew to become the catalyst of a labour dispute, which his uncle hopes to profit from. Unfortunately for Bettram, his plan backfires when his socialist employee Mr. Kite (Peter Sellers) takes advantage of the opportunity for his own gain.
TWO WAY STRETCH (1960)
Directed by: Robert Day
Cast: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Liz Fraser, Lionel Jeffries, Maurice Denham, Irene Handl, Beryl Reid, Noel Hood
Crafty convict Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers), along with his fellow inmates Lennie the Dip (Bernard Cribbins) and Jelly Knight (David Lodge), has grown very comfortable inside prison walls. Under the governor’s soft-hearted approach, life behind bars is almost too easy. But Dodger Lane isn’t content to sit idle. He devises a daring plan that will test both his cunning and his nerve: break out of jail, steal a priceless cache of diamonds, and then sneak back into his cell before anyone notices that he is gone. It’s the perfect alibi for the perfect crime.
ONLY TWO CAN PLAY (1962)
Directed by: Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Griffith,
Maudie Edwards, Frederick Piper, Graham Stark, John Arnatt, Sheila Manahan
Sellers stars as John Lewis, the small-town Welsh librarian who is offered an escape from his mundane life and henpecked-husband routine when councillor’s wife Liz takes a shine to him. Alas, none of their carefully calculated schemes for a romantic tryst come to fruition thanks to a series of comic complications.
THE WRONG ARM OF THE LAW (1963)
Directed by: Cliff Owen
Cast: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Davy Kaye,
Nanette Newman, Bill Kerr, Ed Devereaux
In London, a group of Australian gangsters disguised as “Bobbies”, led by Jack Coombes (Bill Kerr), are diverting the ill-gotten gains of the local criminal gangs. Gang leader “Pearly” Gates (Sellers), who operates from the cover of a French couturier, finds his takings severely cut. Initially he blames rival crook “Nervous” O’Toole (Bernard Cribbins) but when it emerges that they are both being scammed by the same gang, they form an unlikely alliance with Scotland Yard Police Inspector “Nosey” Parker (Lionel Jeffries) – to eliminate the so-called “I.P.O. mob” (I.P.O. – Impersonating a Police Officer) and return things to “normal”.
HEAVENS ABOVE! (1963)
Directed by: John & Roy Boulting
Cast: Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Eric Sykes, Bernard Miles, Ian Carmichael,
Irene Handl, Brock Peters, Miriam Karlin, Joan Miller
Sellers stars as John Smallwood, an idealistic Reverend appointed to the parish of an upper-class village by mistake. With a bad habit of telling the truth at all times, Smallwood makes several clerical decisions that shock his wealthy, landed-gentry parishioners.