Waltz of the Toreadors (also known as The Amorous General[1]) is a 1962 film directed by John Guillermin and starring Peter Sellers and Dany Robin.

[8] This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs.

The General has two plain-looking daughters he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years.

Margaret Leighton, bicycling madly towards the railway track in nightdress and jockey cap, to be told by the porter that there is no train for her to throw herself under today, makes a fine figure. ...

And Peter Sellers, in another clever bit of mimicry, somehow emphasises this by his air of having not much to do with the rest of the cast, of being absorbed in the details of his own impersonation.

Sellers, still in his thirties, plays the comically stiff and paunchy role of a retired British Army general with a still-eager eye for the girls, and he does it with detail so deft and devilish that he adds another jewel to his crown.