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Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Brenda De Banzie
In the first movie starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, he tries to catch a jewel thief who is right under his nose.
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Arguably the signature film for the immensely talented Peter Sellers and that, oddly enough, is a shame. Peter's well timed miscues and pratfalls endeared his clumsy Inspector Clouseau to a whole generation of moviegoers but this is hardly the most charismatic persona in his ars...( read more)
subtle and fun, this film was made without any hope of one sequel let alone many and it shows in the execution. in the end it may not be the funniest or even best of the series but its a solid comedy with a memorable car chase sequence at the end.
I don't know what it is about David Niven but you can't root against the guy, He could play Judas and he would still play it with such charm that you wouldn't believe that he was the bad guy. That's the David Niven you get in the Pink Panther, though the other stand out in the fi...( read more)
Wacky and witty caper comedy with the charm of real film stars like David Niven, Peter Sellers, and the beautiful Claudia Cardinale.
The clumsy inspector Clouseau was more like a secondary character here, but he was explored with more detail and with more hilarious results in th...( read more)
Peter Sellers is funny as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. Don't bother with the recent remake with Steve Martin, watch the 60's franchise instead.
The Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies were the crown jewels on Blake Edwards' resume for slapstick comedy. The originial is one of my favorite comedies of all time. Unlike the recent putrid remakes by Steve Martin, the original Pink Panther movie had the perfect balance between s...( read more)
