Smoking & Pipe Smoking on Film: Peter Sellers

This is a clip from the magnificent 1959 GB comedy 'Battle of the sexes' by Charles Crichton, starring Peter Sellers in one of his best performances ever.

Until a few years ago my young niece wouldn't believe that when I had her age (the seventies) it was allowed to smoke in the cinema and that all the seats had built in little ash trays, like the ones they had on trains.
This clip shows Peter Sellers as Mr. Martin, accountant with a firm that produces traditional Scottish tweed, trying to get rid of a newly appointed modern American bulldozer-style manager who gets on everyone's nerves and who goes too far when she suggests the company should move into synthetic fibres. Martin, having decided the only way left to him is to murder her, prepares himself by seeing a film in which a 'perfect murder' is committed, involving the use of delibererately left behind whiskey and tobacco - the attributes which he then sets out to buy, not without difficulty as he himself doesn't drink nor smoke...
During the scene in the cinema you can actually see other people smoke while watching the film.

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haha LOL! Great movie!