It had Peter Sellers and Ringo Star in it and was a parody on what people would do for money. Just like todays TV game shows with Survivor, Fear Factor and all the others whereby people do anything for money. That movie was made back in the 60's. If you haven't seen it rent it for a real good laugh.:D

I checked that out of the library last year, Ringo Starr is a good actor I must say.

He doesn't say anything much during the movie that I recall .

Yeah, but he's cute like a puupy...

I saw it when it came out. It played a lot differently in those days. "The sixties," which really started in about 1964 (and didn't end until around 1976), were not in full swing yet. "Death of a Salesman" was still pretty controversial; a lot of us had fathers who were Willie Lohman. To suggest that to do something for money might be degrading was really iconoclastic. The scene in the tub full of yucky fluids was outrageous. Nobody had seen cable tv yet.

That wench with the whip on the slave galley is Raquel Welch. Cosmetic surgery has not made her unattractive, but less attractive and totally unrecognizable.

Peter Sellers's star was just rising. He'd made a number of British films but had barely broken into the American market. "The World of Henry Orient," maybe the first "Pink Panther" movie, that other wonderful Blake Edwards film called "The Party." I'm sure Ringo, whose part didn't require a lot of acting ability beyond mugging, was cast as a calculated move to bring in the American youth audience, who were tired of beach party movies but didn't yet have "Easy Rider." We flocked to see British movies that were actually about the era, like "No Blade of Grass," "Sebastian," and "Georgie Girl."

Even "Fahrenheit 451" had to be made in England!

Ah dear Peter Sellers. How could "Being There" not have won a single Oscar?

Life is so unfair. Sellers and two of Ringo's bandmates are gone, but people like Strom Thurmond get to live practically forever.

"Being There" was a great movie and was very "high" humor. You didn't have any belly laughs in it but it was funny for its satire.