Peter Sellers vs. Alec Guinness - a best performance tournament (1 Viewer)

[SteveGon]

Welcome to my Peter Sellers vs. Alec Guinness Tournament.

Not sure if this one will fly, but I thought I'd give it a try!

I'm shooting for eight films per actor - I've already seeded the Guinness field with Star Wars - not my first choice I assure you, but its inclusion here is a certainty. That said, I will NOT be accepting noms for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

I've already seeded the Sellers field with Dr. Strangelove - an obvious choice. I'll only be accepting ONE Pink Panther film - the first to get thirded makes it in, any others nominated will be pitched.

Note: I'm giving Guinness the rights to The Ladykillers since it's primarily his show.

Four nominations, four seconds, and four thirds for everyone.

Alec Guinness

1. [*]The Bridge on the River Kwai[*]The Horse's Mouth[*]Kind Hearts and Coronets[*]The Ladykillers[*]Star Wars
   

Peter Sellers

1. [*]Being There[*]Dr. Strangelove[*]Lolita[*]A Shot in the Dark
   

Nominations

Dr. Zhivago (Guinness)*
Great Expectations
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (Sellers)
I'm All Right Jack
The Lavender Hill Mob (Guinness)
Little Dorritt
The Man in the White Suit
Murder By Death (Guinness)*
Murder By Death (Sellers)*
Oliver Twist (Guinness)*
The Road to Hong Kong (Sellers)


Movies marked with an asterisk have been seconded and are in need of a third.

 

[JenB]

Nominate:

Kind Hearts and Coronets-Alec Guinness

 

[Rain]

Nominate:

The Horse's Mouth (Guiness)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (Sellers)
A Shot in the Dark (Sellers)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Guiness)

 

[ChuckDeLa]

I'll be doing mega-abstaining during most of this, but I've got a feeling the final round will look a lot like the automatic seeds.

Second:
Bridge on the River Kwai

Nominate:
Being There (Sellers)
Lolita (Sellers)

 

[Rain]

Second:

Lolita

 

[george kaplan]

I'll nominate

Murder by Death (Sellers)
Murder by Death (Guinness)
The Pink Panther (Sellers)
The Ladykillers (Guinness)

I'll second

The Horse's Mouth (Guinness)
Kind Hearts & Coronets (Guinness)
A Shot in the Dark (Sellers)

I'll third

Bridge on the River Kwai (Guinness)

 

[Angelo.M]

Second: pink panther
Second: being there (and pencil this one in for the final matchup, OK?)

 

[SteveGon]

List updated.

George, good call on Murder By Death - I'd forgotten they were both in it. :b

I finished off my Peter Sellers box set last night by watching Hoffman. Very nice performance from Sellers in a straight role. Check it out!

 

[ErikG]

Third;

A Shot in the Dark (Sellers)
The Pink Panther (Sellers)

 

[SteveGon]

Erik, with only eight films per actor, I'm limiting Sellers to one Pink Panther film. Sorry!

 

[ErikG]

No problem, so which one is in?

EDIT: Oops, just read your rules (:b ) so I guess A Shot in the Dark is in.

 

[Gabe D]

I'll second or third:

Kind Hearts and Coronets (Guinness)*
The Ladykillers (Guinness)
Murder By Death (Guinness)
Murder By Death (Sellers)

Sellers is brilliant in A Shot in the Dark, and I have no problem with that being the Clouseau movie. However, I would've picked The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

 

[Jim_K]

Nominate

Guinness

Oliver Twist
Doctor Zhivago
Lavender Hill Mob

second

The Ladykillers

third

Being There
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Lolita

BTW - Is the Star Wars film really necessary? :p)

 

[Jan H]

Nominate:

I'm Alright Jack (Sellers)
Ladykillers (Sellers)

Great Expectations (Guiness)
Little Dorrit (Guiness)
The Man in the White Suit (Guiness)

Second:

Oliver Twist (Guiness)
Lavender Hill Mob (Guiness)

Third:

Ladykillers (Guiness)

 

[george kaplan]

They're also both in Ladykillers, but I ran out of nominations, so only listed Guinness for that film.

Thanks to Jan, I can second it

Second:

Ladykillers (Sellers)

Third:

The Lavender Hill Mob (Guinness)

and since I get one of my nominations back for Pink Panther, I go with one of Sellers lesser known roles

Nominate:

The Road to Hong Kong (Sellers)

 

[JenB]

Second:

Doctor Zhivago

 

[Brook K]

Third
The Horse's Mouth, just saw it last night

I won't be able to participate much in this one, haven't seen most of these films. Unfortunately Netflix doesn't carry the Alec Guiness box.

 

[SteveGon]

Let's try to get this thing rolling.

Two more noms, seconds, and thirds for everyone who has participated thus far.

Where's Lew? I think I'm All Right Jack is one of his faves...

 

[Angelo.M]

3rd zhivago