Blu-Ray releases and BFI season to mark comic's anniversary

Two classic Peter Sellers comedies are to be released on Blu-Ray to mark what would have been his 100^th birthday on September, 8.

Studiocanal are to release the 1960 crime caper Two Way Stretch – co-starring  Bernard Cribbins   and Lionel Jeffries  – and 1963’s Heaven’s Above!,  a social satire about an honest priest whose kindness disrupts an upmarket English village.

Both films will be available on Blu-ray from August 4.

It comes as the BFI Southbank in London stages a month-long season of Sellers films in August. As well as the two aforementioned comedies, the programme also includes  The Wrong Arm Of The Law, Dr Stranglove and two Pink Panther movies, among others

The programme also includes an event discussing his work and a screening of ‘oddities and rarities’, including a filmed Goon Show. 

A Peter Sellers box set  will be released in November, although details have not yet been disclosed.

Published: 1 Jul 2025