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Insomnia is Good for You is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Leslie Arliss with Peter Sellers
Insomnia is Good for You (1957)
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Add to a movie listInsomnia is Good for You is a 1957 British short comedy film directed by Leslie Arliss and starring Peter Sellers as Hector Dimwittie. It was made and released by Park Lane Films, and written by Lewis Griefer and Mordecai Richler.
As of December 2012, the film was considered lost by rare book and script collector and actor Neil Pearson, with no cast list (apart from Sellers), script or footage known to exist. Nevertheless, a copy had been found in 1996, in a skip outside the offices of the film company, together with Dearth of a Salesman (also 1957). It was shown at the Southend Film Festival in May 2014.
Synopsis
Hector Dimwittie n'arrive pas à dormir, obnubilé par le rendez-vous que lui a donné son patron ("à la première heure lundi matin").Actors
Peter Sellers
(Hector Dimwittie)
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