Peter Sellers as Herr Schroeder

Purely for educational purposes, for those of us who admire Sellers as a performer and just want to study his technique.
Isolated scenes of arguably the most successful character from "Soft Beds, Hard Battles" (Aka "Undercovers Hero" in the United States), which came out in 1974. Sellers as Herr Schroeder is a small gem - a mashup of Dr. Strangelove and Fred Kite - in an otherwise flat, unremarkable and disconnected Boulting Brothers farce.
Sellers, acting the quixotic primadonna as he did on "Casino Royale" was probably partly responsible for the disjointed structure of the film.
However there's some lovely subtle touches in Sellers' performance here, from him raising his glasses for closeup reading, the childish delight in the bed scene to the excited, raised shoulders when he receives word from the Führer. The limp and the heavy make-up around Schroeder's small eyes also go a long way for me, and the formal clicking of the heels even when no one of authority is there to see it. A delicious, officious, sinister Gestapo pantomime devil.

[@Yeldarb4]

One of the greatest actors who ever lived. He said several times that he found the voice of the character first and went from that to develop a role. Genius.

[@perfeitorafael]

The voice and the walk ;)

[@MorrowSind]

I'm a Peter Sellers fan and didn't know that this existed. He was so talented. My favorite is probably the outside scene in Lolita. He's known for comedy roles, but his serious roles are amazing. He really was a well rounded actor and took his work very serious. Love this guy. I'll have to give this a watch.

[@jeffreyramsey4538]

The sheer Brilliance of this Comedic Actor Peter Sellers was beyond question fm Herr Schroeder playing the role of A Gestapo Head to Dr.Strangelove, To Fu Manchu to An Indian actor in the Party or French Polce officer in a shot in the Dark or the entire Pink Panther series plus many more films, He was an absolute Genuis and to my mind the greatest comedic actor of all time

[@steveconkey7362]

Wow, a true gem I never have seen. Wonderful.

[@750count]

That is brilliant as brilliant gets I had not seen this one I just needed a good laugh, and he did not let me down for one second

[@najeebbaterdouk9253]

RIP Peter Sellers - an amazing actor truly

[@and7barton]

Never even heard of this movie ! - It looks from this clip to be great !

[@billslocum9819]

It's not. "Undercovers Hero" was a 70s sex farce that was trying for a Carry On meets Is Paris Burning? vibe. I wish it was better material, because Sellers was really trying in it, bless him.

[@Native_love]

"Not ze way I do it!" LOL! Peter Sellers was an awesome actor!

[@Tridhos]

Herr Schroeder must have been one of his funniest ever roles. The one about the tax inspector still creases me up. Thanks for posting that.

[@rolfagten857]

The Blueprint for Herr Flick from "Allo Allo"

[@paulleckner8235]

It is I, Le Clerc, the man of 1,000 faces and each of them the same.

[@garytisch9305]

@@paulleckner8235 what’s the name of this movie?

[@stephenhobbs1052]

There is Clouseau here as well

[@lukehanley5392]

Gould Moaning.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

When the General says "the recreation of the warrior" he is quoting Nietzsche. The passage is a memorable one.

[@VIRGONOMICS]

Perfectly Creepy and Funny - one of the best .

[@lynnspillane8651]

This is a riot! I’d never seen this before!👏😁

[@frglee]

'May I ask what you plan to do after the war, Herr Schroeder ?' 'I'll return to my civilian job' 'What is that, Herr Schroeder?' 'I am an income tax inspector' 'A crazy change from the life in the Gestapo!' 'Not the way I do it!' 😂

[@The1976spirit]

Wuppertal, mon amour - - -

[@lesgriffiths8523]

We will never see again, another with the the brilliance and comic genius of Peter Sellers. Never. Les Griffiths

[@wwhitebeardd]

The Clip is from the film, Undercover Heroes (1974) -aka: Soft Beds,Hard Battles

[@WMAcadet]

Correction... Undercovers Hero.

[@joewright9879]

15:07 Schultz: What do you look forward to? Herr Schroeder: After the war? I look forward to going back to my old job in civilian street. Schultz: What did you do? Herr Schroeder: I was an income tax inspector. Schultz: Very different from the Gestapo. Herr Schroeder: Not the way I do it!

[@phillipecook3227]

I could have sworn this was Alec Guinness channelling Himmler and not Sellers.

[@jdrancho1864]

Looks like it wasn't Raiders Of The Lost Ark that was the inspiration for Herr Flick of the Gestapo, but Peter Sellers here, complete with limp.

[@eldergeektromeo9868]

We really did lose Sellers way too soon! "Comic genius" is understating his ability! Miss him, still!

[@thegreenbird795]

Curd Jurgens must have played a German officer in dozens of films...

[@MrKersey]

He played a German officer too many times,now they need to persuade us he wasn't one in real life.

[@fincorrigan7139]

@@MrKersey He was arrested and imprisoned as a suspected anti-Nazi (which he was) in the second half of WW2.

[@fazbell]

You've just gotta love Peter Sellers.

[@beowulf1312]

Fantastisch!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@mohammedpanju2236]

One of Peter Sellers' VERY FINEST Films. Herr Flick of 'Allo 'Allo was undoubtedly influenced by his characterisation of Herr Schroeder in Soft Beds Hard Battles.

[@andrewjohnson388]

Love the way he portrays a dictator as a insecure, lonely sad git, spot on. em...we know a few of those recently!!!!

[@danielvrana9444]

Do you have this in a dvd? If you know how I can get a copy please PM me. Thank you Dan

[@danielvrana9444]

I bought one I’m good.

[@josecuevasperez8572]

Gran pelicula. Pero no la encuentro en ninguna pagina de peliculas y series online. Agradeceria una informacion o pagina para volver a deiletarme con esta gran obra, gracias.

[@garytisch9305]

Did you ever find this movie? Please let me know if you find it.

[@osvaldogreco]

"Soft Beds, Hard Battles", 1974

[@kailasac6532]

spooky, really resembles Himmler

[@rolandsievers6781]

Heydrich soll einmal gesagt haben, wenn er so aussähe wie Himmler, würde er über Rasse gar nicht reden...

[@espenbgh2540]

Seeing this video I come to think of the person from "'ALLO 'ALLO! Herr Flick

[@richardlangdon712]

Jacques Clouseau's job during the war.

[@rolandsievers6781]

Offensichtlich war die Sûreté bereit zur Kollaboration...

[@leehaslam5871]

My god its Jacob rees-Moggs dad

[@svitlanaostapchenko5642]

That speech actually sums the French up very well..n.b Macron

[@markr.katzman3743]

The soldier peed on his head!!!!!!! LOL!

[@kiethblack3870]

I am a decades-old Sellers fan. What the heck movie is THIS from?? I've never seen this one. That sick part where the guy pees out the window reminds me of the title sequence in Fritz The Cat. Yeech.

[@jamesmusk508]

Name of film?

[@lakonikos8791]

We are making war, not love. Your application is refused.

[@srothbardt]

What movie is this from .

[@latestagecomedy]

"Soft Beds, Hard Battles", aka "Undercovers Hero" 1974

[@garytisch9305]

Did you ever find this movie? I’d love to see it.

[@AABB-zb6dv]

Is Pirate Bay still around? I used to find a lot of rare, old films there. It's illegal though.

[@manuheber9011]

He looks Heinrich Himmler.

[@The1976spirit]

Schroeder settled down in Wuppertal after the war.

[@drcmac]

🔹️ I have never seen Peter Sellers in a nasty, mean light before. I have seen him playing a dopey, imbecilic, incompetent French Police Inspector & an accident-prone Indian B-Grade actor. I miss Peter Sellers. I wish he could have lived longer than he did. He had so much more to offer to the world.

[@750count]

If you want to check out one of his movies where he is just a bad guy and never funny, watch Never Let Go A very good movie

[@jamesvokral4934]

@@750count I concur. A hard to find Brit movie with a very bad Sellers.

[@fearlessfosdick160]

Ok, so you have seen the Pink Panther movies and The Party. There is so much that you should see, in that case. Try Dr. Strangelove, in which he simultaneously plays a reconstructed Nazi and the President of the United States. Also try The Magic Christian, which is a late sixties sendup of capitalism and social status. Finally, try Being There, which is arguably his best film.

[@c.a.savage5689]

"Never Let Go", Sellers plays a sadistic English thug. He was keen to play something other than comedy and the film reveals a dark side of Sellers that he relished. Unfortunately the public hated seeing him as a truly despicable character and he never veered from comedy again. Also "The Lady Killers" and "The Wrong Box".

[@billslocum9819]

Also plays an unsympathetic bad guy in the children's movie "tom thumb". Quite an unsympathetic creep, but in a harmless sort of way.

[@richardbrowning9953]

Herr Schroeder looks like heimlich himmler 😱

[@garytisch9305]

Does anyone know how I can see this movie?

[@debeeriz]

its called undercovers hero it is on m4u

[@garytisch9305]

@@debeeriz What is m4u?

[@debeeriz]

@@garytisch9305 do a search with the title and m4u and you will find it, if i put the paths full name yt will remove it

[@bonniesilva5162]

"Soft Beds, Hard Battles"(1974)

[@srothbardt]

An early version of Inspector Clueseau?

[@majorneptunejr]

Clouseau was created 11 years before this.

[@jacquespiquet1258]

Il ne manque que Kato …. 😂😂

[@angloaust1575]

After Paris was liberated in aug44 The americans became the new Customers!

[@tonycaniggia]

The Germans didn't trash France, it was the Americans

[@fredflinston41]

Undercover Heroes of World War II 😎😎

[@rolandsievers6781]

The recreation of the warrior is not a matter for the GeStaPo.

[@fearlessfosdick160]

A fantastic line. The General is paraphrasing Nietzsche and suggesting that members of the Gestapo are not warriors of any kind.

[@Seekthetruth3000]

👌👌👌👍👍👍

[@terrencelinnell4702]

He could be acting out heir Mogg .

[@lelandthomosoniii4743]

Proper Pronoucination Herrrrrrrr

[@goodbarbenie5477]

U've gotta be off the wall having to act in so many mad movies... U've gotta have some of that madness in your psyche... It does, make the World go around... Hahaha...

[@siempeters]

Herr Flick's granddad.......

[@kamion53]

it is clear on whome Herr Flick of the Gestapo is based.

[@wallyp_l_z6329]

The German version of the Pink Panther..

[@nadvga6650]

hey thats not herr schroeder thats just herr von smallhausen

[@carldenig2500]

There still are some matters not to make fun of. The Gestapo is not a laughing matter; not even after 80 years.

[@rolandsievers6781]

Über die Opfer sollte man selbstverständlich nicht lachen; aber über die Täter darf und sollte man lachen! Das nimmt ihnen ihre dämonische Macht.

[@BenJehovah6969]

Still salty that they shut you down after all these years, eh?

[@michaelbayer5094]

I'll take my cue from Mel Brooks who believes it's necessary to make fun of the Nazis (as long as their crimes are not diminished)

[@danremenyi1179]

This makes fun of a particular type of memtality.

[@jfryer485]

No, you have reason. There is no word to describe them. But sadly the inhumanity of man to fellow man is alive and well in 2022 in Europe. Early war films showed the truth but as you say now 80 years on they are parodied as fools which they certainly weren’t. Louis De Funes portrayed them in La Grande Vadrouille And of course John Cleese with his funny talks and whatever you do dont mention the war

[@michaelemory552]

Sellers is Alec Guinness as ….

[@888ssss]

peter sellers as jacob reece-mogg.

[@kindnessfirst9670]

He looks like Himmler (except for how he is dressed).

[@franceleeparis37]

Cannot believe that Peter Sellers thought this was a good part..😏

[@fredgarv79]

I still hear a little clouseau here. it's a bizarre mixture of clouseau and a german nazi. they way he you, yoouuu

[@christaylor8776]

A master of accents and mannerisms. A shame he did so much comedy, I'm always waiting for the laugh.

[@quintonscholz3656]

Hahaha 🤣 lol

[@cshirmer8416]

He looks like Himmler !👺

[@jeffstone2136]

Not one of Sellers' best movies. You end up wondering what the point of it all was by the time the credits roll. Still, it's not as boring and lifeless as Prisoner of Zenda 78 or Fiendish Plot.

[@shefmeisterextraordinaire3717]

True, sadly. All the funny bits are in this video. The rest of the film is dire.

[@debeeriz]

woman about to meet her husband, fraulien your husband must come first. yes i suppose he will after being a pow all these years

[@WalterJoergLangbein]

It is Fräulein...

[@cshirmer8416]

Oh,he walked like Goebbels !👺

[@marlspieker]

As always germans are presented as fools. Always the same dump method of exaggeration in use of unfair cliche.

[@kevinherbert4256]

German bashing....yaaaaaawn...remember the North Sea Blockade!!!!

[@cv507]

0:35 na $övvätt xD XD as a Führer äh in car n8 i Däre say Deville´ce scheneräll you äre wröng xD plus ss is nöt geheime säätspröllezeih v v räphörrt tv de ville Glööcklärr immiciätlie V VV i vvönDäre ^ ^ werr is Futscha bönäir -:-

[@alexfernandohuenten1374]

Schroe

[@archiebald4717]

As funny as ear ache.

[@nikkikickx704]

The caring shovel fittingly embarrass because comma partly suck upon a well-off slice. dusty, befitting tank

[@andrewhill4986]

Translation?

[@acjdf]

@Simon McCreath Really? Never would have spotted that without your help.

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

Bot

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Appallingly vulgar. And most importantly: NOT FUNNY.

[@danremenyi1179]

Very very funny

[@mishpatim123]

Not funny at all

[@calosnievas9922]

BAJEN ESTA JOYA COMPLETA POR FAVOR ..Y EN ESPAÑOL

[@pathoward7075]

Undercovers. hero 1974.

[@pathoward7075]

What movie is this?

[@richardhearley3315]

It's Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)

[@bonniesilva5162]

Also known as "Undercovers Hero"...

[@chrismatto8586]

Undercovers heros