The Bobo

The Bobo is a 1967 British comedy film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland. The screenplay is based on the 1959 novel Olimpia by Burt Cole, also known as Thomas Dixon. Plot Singing matador Juan Bautista is offered a break by a theater manager if he will seduce the beautiful Olimpia. He does so, in part by singing her a beautiful song about the "girl from Barcelona". Once she has succumbed to his advances, she finds out his deception. She and a female relative find a way to get him in a bathtub of blue dye and he is turned dark blue in revenge. Cast Peter Sellers as Juan Bautista Britt Ekland as Olimpia Segura Rossano Brazzi as Carlos Matabosch Adolfo Celi as Francisco Carbonell Hattie Jacques as Trinity Martinez Ferdy Mayne as Silvestre Flores Kenneth Griffith as Pepe Gamazo Al Lettieri as Eugenio Gomez Marne Maitland as Luis Castillo John Wells as Pompadour Major Domo Don Lurio as Ramon Gonzales Antonia Santiago Amador (La Chana) as flamenco dancer