CAST:
Peter Sellers (Chance),
Shirley MacLaine (Eve Rand),
Melvyn Douglas (Benjamin Rand),
Jack Warden (predsjednik 'Bobby'),
Richard Dysart (dr. Robert Allenby),
Richard Basehart (Vladimir Skrapinov)

SCRIPT:
Jerzy Kosinski (based on his own novel)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Caleb Deschanel

MUSIC:
Johnny Mandel

EDITING:
Don Zimmerman

Synopsis:
Chance, a gardener, lives in Washington within the walls of a huge estate, owned by his employer. He knows nothing about the world outside, except for what he sees on television. When his employer dies one day, Chance puts on a fancy suit, and armed with a TV remote, goes to the Washington streets for the first time in his life. He finally meets the outside world… This film is based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski. It is imbued with black humor and witty comments about the American way of life at the time beginnings of television. Many critics regarded this role to be Sellers’s best. He was nominated for an Oscar, and Melvyn Douglas won it for the best supporting role in this film.

color, 130'