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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The entire film was shot in Europe, so the scene in which Britt Eklund and Peter Sellers visit Los Angeles a matte shot was used for the background of the hotel. The shot contained modern skyscrapers such as the U.S. Bank building which did not exist during the sixties and seventies.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Sellers, along with some ladies, is seen riding in a stretch limousine version of a late-1980s Mercury Grand Marquis. This scene is supposed to be set sometime between Sellers' divorce from Britt Ekland in 1968 and the filming of The Pink Panther Strikes Again in 1976, and Sellers died in 1980, years before this car was was in production.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sellers' father is in the hospital, his oxygen mask is initially on upside down. In subsequent shots, the mask is right side up.
  
  

• Anachronisms: The soundtrack does not match Peter's life chronology. He couldn't listen to Tom Jones's "It's not Unusual" when he met Britt Ekland in 1964 (one year before it was released), Marvin Gaye's "I heard it through the grapevine" the same year (actually released in 1967) and David Bowie's "Space Oddity" divorcing Britt in 1968 (actually released one year later).
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Sellers finds out (via the newspaper) that Britt Ekland is arriving in London it is the early 1960s, yet on the wall of his room at the start of the scene is the UK film poster for his film Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974).
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Peter Sellers is in Rome to play the first "Pink Panther" he's shown in front of "Cinecittà", the most famous cinema studio in Italy. While Sellers is standing in front of the studio, a car passes behind: it's an Autobianchi Y10, an Italian car, first introduced in 1985, its appearance being 22 years too early.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Peter is in Rome, a newspaper kiosk sells magazine which didn't exist in 1963 (i.e. King and Solocase).
  
  
• Factual errors: A cinema marquee advertises Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973) despite the fact that this film was shelved until after Sellers' death and never received a theatrical release.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Peter Sellers is working out, he is not wearing glasses. But in the next shot, while talking to Britt Ekland, he is suddenly mysteriously wearing the glasses.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During filming of Dr Stangelove, Sellers is in his dressing room going over his lines. He is practicing one of Group Captain Mandrake's lines, saying "I can assure Major Bat Guano, if that is indeed your name." In fact in the film the Army officer Bat Guano was a Colonel, not a Major.
  
  
• Continuity: Sellers shaves off his beard in the airplane lavatory, but has a healthy five o'clock shadow when he emerges seconds later.
  
  

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