A Genius Maligned

Peter Sellers is amazingly, for someone so popular and successful in his day, one of the most underrated actors of all time. He was a master of dialect and body movement, and even his worst performances contained nuances beyond most actors working then or now. Mike Meyers would seem a perfect example of slavish devotion to Sellers' legacy. Check Sellers in Dr. Stranglove, among others, for an actor performing multiple roles in one movie for Meyers' Austin Powers antecedent.
So why is Sellers so poorly represented on DVD? Sure The Pink Panther series is available in a boxed set, but there are several terrific Sellers films still languishing in the vaults and only currently to be found on ancient, fuzzy VHS tapes somewhere on EBay.
The one I would most like to see released on DVD is Sellers' 1968 film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, a very funny, admittedly Hollywood, look at the counterculture scene of the late 60s. Sellers plays an uptight Los Angeles lawyer who tunes in, turns on, and drops out (people really said this kind of thing back then) of mainstream society when he gets a dose of some free love courtesy of a very young and lovely actress named Leigh Taylor-Young. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (the reference is to writer, poet, playwright, feminist Gertrude Stein's lesbian lover who concocted a famous pot brownie recipe) actually works as a subtle satire of the changes society was encountering at the time, and even tough the movie is probably pretty dated, and viewers today will see the film as more camp than anything else, Sellers' performance is never less than amazing. Besides, the pot brownie scene still works well enough that the makers of the recent Starsky and Hutch flick stole the idea outright.
So whoever owns the rights to this movie needs to release the damn thing so I can immediately add it to my Peter Sellers collection (right in between The Party (1967) and Being There (1979) Sellers' last performance and one of the best movies ever made. And if you try the brownie, Bon Appetit!