The Party (film)

The Party is a 1968 comedy film about an Indian actor who, instead of being fired, mistakingly gets invited to a party in Hollywood.
 * Directed by Blake Edwards. Written by Blake Edwards.

If you've ever been to a wilder party... you're under arrest (taglines)

Hrundi V. Bakshi

 * Birdie Num Num
 * Thirty days have September, October, June and February, all the rest have 29, except my brother who got six months.
 * Wisdom is the province of the aged, but the heart of a child is pure.
 * Howdy partiner

Dialogue

 * Director: You.
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Me?
 * Director: Yes, you. Get off of my set, and out of my picture. Off, off! You're washed up, you're finished! I'll see to it that you never make another movie again!
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Does that include television, sir?




 * Director: You ready? Action!
 * [Hrundi sneaks up behind a man and tries to stab him with a knife, he wears a very large wrist watch]
 * Director: [jumps to his feet] Cut, damn it! Cut! [very patiently] Mr. Bakshi.
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi:Yes, sir.
 * Director: Has it occurred to you...that the period of our picture is 1878?
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Yes, indeed, sir. I am well aware...that that is the period of the film.
 * Director: Mr. Bakshi, are you also aware...that in 1878 they weren't wearing underwater watches?
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Yes, sir. I know that. They had not even been invented.
 * Director: You got the time?
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: [looks at his watch] Yes, it's... [freezes] oh, my God.




 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: We have a saying in India...
 * Michelle Monet: Yes?
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Yes.
 * Michelle Monet: Well?
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Well what?




 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Hrundi V. Bakshi.
 * Michelle Monet: Pardon?
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: That is what my name is called.




 * C. S. Divot: You mashuga!
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: I am not your sugar.




 * [A waiter carries a plate of hors d'oeuvres, oblivious that Hrundi's shoe is on top of it]
 * Waiter: Would you care for some hors-d'oeuvres sir?
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: I am on a diet, but to hell with it! [Takes his shoe]




 * C. S. Divot: Just who do you think you are?
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: In India, we don't think who we are. We know who we are.




 * [last lines]
 * Michelle Monet: Oh, here's your hat.
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Oh, look... you keep it.
 * Michelle Monet: But you may need it.
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: No, I'd like you to keep it.
 * Michelle Monet: All right. If you think that you should want it or need it sometimes...
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Well, if I need it... I could always come, perhaps, and pick it up.
 * Michelle Monet: That would be very nice.
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: When would you be available for me to pick up my hat?
 * Michelle Monet: Well... [laughs shyly] maybe next week.
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: I'll come and get it then.
 * Michelle Monet: OK.
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: For I'd love to have my hat back.
 * Michelle Monet: Goodbye.
 * Hrundi V. Bakshi: Bye bye.

Taglines

 * If you've ever been to a wilder party... you're under arrest

Cast

 * Peter Sellers — Hrundi V. Bakshi
 * Claudine Longet — Michele Monet
 * Herbert Ellis — Director
 * Gavin MacLeod — C. S. Divot
 * James Lanphier — Harry (head waiter)
 * Steve Franken — Levinson (drunk waiter)
 * Natalia Borisova — Ballerina
 * Jean Carson — Nanny
 * Marge Champion — Rosalind Dunphy
 * Al Checco — Bernard Stein
 * Corinne Cole — Janice Kane
 * Dick Crockett — Wells
 * Frances Davis — Maid
 * Danielle De Metz — Stella D'Angelo
 * Paul Ferrara — Ronnie Smith
 * Kathe Green — Molly Clutterbuck
 * Allen Jung —  Cook