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There are obscure performances . . . and then there are obscure performances.
Here's one that's even escaped most biographers of Peter Sellers: Using the nom de cinema A. Queen, Sellers played a homosexual shopkeeper in "A Day at the Beach," a Paramount picture that only recently was uncovered in the studio's London vaults, where it had been lost for 23 years. The picture was never released.
Sellers-who died in 1980-appears in the film for only five minutes, yet as director Simon Hesera admits, the actor's presence may help the film's chances of getting a theatrical launch. He has just bought the rights from the studio and has had the negative restored.
"My God! It is a beautiful film. I did a wonderful job, (the actors) did a wonderful job. Why shouldn't it come out?" the French-born filmmaker said.
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