Themes: Fish Out of Water, Culture Clash, Mistaken Identities
Main Cast: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi, Adolfo Celi, Hattie Jacques
Release Year: 1967
Country: UK
Run Time: 103 minutes
Plot
Peter Sellers stars, as the tagline states, "as that cunning matador who flees from the bulls so that he may chase the chicks!" Juan Bautista (Peter Sellers) is an inept matador who wants to be a singer. Francisco Carbonell (Adolfo Celi), the owner of a local Barcelona night spot, offers Juan a singing contract for a week --the only stipulation being that he has three days to seduce Olimpia Segura (Britt Ekland), the "most desirable woman in Barcelona." The bumbling matador tries a series of half-baked lovemaking techniques that, amazingly, get Olimpia to come around. But when Olimpia discovers that Juan wanted to seduce her merely to get a singing job, Juan finds that avoiding charging bulls is a much safer vocation than dealing with an irate Olimpia. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Elven Webb - Art Director, David R. Schwartz - Associate Producer, Adrianna Berselli - Costume Designer, Gus Agosti - First Assistant Director, Robert Parrish - Director, John Jympson - Editor, Francis Lai - Composer (Music Score), Harry Frampton - Makeup, John O'Gorman - Makeup, Ronnie Taylor - Camera Operator, Don Ashton - Production Designer, Gerry Turpin - Cinematographer, Jerry Gershwin - Producer, Elliott Kastner - Producer, David R. Schwartz - Screenwriter, Burt Cole - Book Author, David R. Schwartz - Play Author
The Bobo is a 1967 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers and co-starring his then-wife Britt Ekland. Based on a 1959 novel "Olimpia" by Burt Cole, aka Thomas Dixon, Sellers is featured as the would-be Spanish singing matador, Juan Bautista.
A theater manager offers to give him a big break if he seduces the beautiful Olympia (Ekland) and spends an hour in her apartment with the lights off. The plot centers around Juan's attempts to woo the woman and famously includes Sellers covered in blue dye as the "Blue Matador."
