Unsuccessful in his ambitions, Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow for the purse of Fortunatus, thereby gaining everlasting riches. But when he is ridiculed, persecuted & hated for being different from other men, he realizes that poverty is easier to bear than the loss of his peace of mind. ...

Triple bill of films featuring Peter Sellers. Sellers appears alongside fellow comedy actors Sid James, Tony Hancock & Donald Pleasence in the mid-1950s comedy caper ' Orders are Orders' (1954). When a film company wants to use an army barracks as the location for its science fiction film, the Commander is less than impressed, & manages to persuade the crew to relocate to a nearby haunted house. In the war drama, ' The Blockhouse' (1973), based on the novel by Jean Paul Ciebert, six men of different nationalities are trapped in an underground German blockhouse. Although they have a plentiful supply of food & beverages, the victims must overcome loneliness & boredom in order to survive. Finally, in the hospital comedy, ' Where Does It Hurt?' (1972), Sellers plays Dr Albert T Hopfnagel, a corrupt doctor who finds himself on the receiving end of his own medicine. Hopfnagel has achieved his medical status through corruption, greed & over-charging. When his long-suffering assistant & lover, Alice (Jo Ann Pflug), decides she's had enough, she frames Hopfnagel with the aid of the hospital administrator, & gets him a prison term. Unfortunately, Hopfnagel's many underhand talents soon help spring him from jail, & he sets out to repay his debt of gratitude to his former admirer. ...

Comic actor Peter Sellers stars in three of his classic comedies from the late 1950s & early 1960s. ' Heavens Above!' (1963) is a comedy of manners in which Sellers plays a well-intentioned socialist priest who is mistakenly sent to an upper-crust parish. 'I'm Alright, Jack' (1959) won Sellers a BAFTA for Best Actor as a naà ve ex-soldier looking to get ahead in business, who unwittingly ends up as a pawn in the machinations between management & the trade unions. In ' Two Way Stretch' (1960), Sellers plays a convict who plans to use his own incarceration as the perfect alibi for a bank robbery. Also in this collection is a compliation of highlights from Sellers' work on television, ' The Very Best of Peter Sellers'. ...

BBC documentary based on the original Arena trilogy screened in 1995 devoted to the life of actor & comic genius Peter Sellers (1925-1980). The documentary features footage that Sellers, a compulsive amateur filmmaker, shot himself privately over many years, on the sets of his films, at home or on holiday with his family. As well as his three wives Anne Levy, Britt Ekland & Lynne Frederick, & his children Michael, Sarah & Victoria, the documentary features footage of friends & colleagues including Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon, Orson Welles, Spike Milligan & Sophia Loren (with whom Sellers fell passionately in love). ...

All six episodes plus the 2008 Christmas special of the BBC comedy sketch show. Peter Serafinowicz's impressions of real stars like Terry Wogan, Ewan Mc Gregor, Al Pacino, Noel Edmonds, Simon Cowell, Christopher Walken, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Michael Caine, Laurel & Hardy, Elvis, Alan Alda, Chris Tarrant & the Beatles rub shoulder with his own creations, such as Terry Wogan's alcoholic identical twin Jerry, pretentious designer ' Keyhole' & Brian Butterfield, the world's most incompetent compensation lawyer. ...

Peter Shilton's time at Plymouth Argyle in the early 1990s, specifically the 1993/94 season, is remembered as much for scintillating, attacking football as for the off-pitch battles between Shilton & chairman Dan Mc Cauley. This book explores the fragile relationships behind the scenes at Home Park. ...

Explores one of the most controversial philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer, & his radical & inspiring work on animal rights, ethics, & globalization. This book gives a platform to critics of Singer's many contentious ideas about disability & euthanasia, utilitarianism abortion & global poverty, among others. ...