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The Pink Panther
Why this pick
The first Clouseau outing has the same elegant European settings, flirtatious crime-comedy rhythm, and Peter Sellers’s blissfully inept detective work.
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MOVIE1964 1h 42m GBR
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The Return of the Pink Panther
Why this pick
Clouseau’s chaotic investigations and Dreyfus’s escalating exasperation return in a polished farce built around precisely timed physical comedy.
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The Party
Why this pick
Not a mystery, but it shares Blake Edwards’s sophisticated visual comedy and Sellers’s gift for turning innocent social blunders into elaborate destruction.
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The Man with Two Brains
Why this pick
Its deadpan absurdity, gleeful romantic foolishness, and escalating comic disasters offer a more surreal American cousin to Clouseau’s logic-defying investigations.
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Why this pick
This French farce turns an ordinary, oblivious man into the center of a spy plot, balancing suspense with elegant, increasingly ridiculous misunderstandings.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) of the National Police (France), the French national police, is called to the country home of millionaire Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders) to investigate the murder of his chauffeur, Miguel Ostos. The chauffeur was having an affair with one of the maids, Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer), and attacked her in her bedroom after she broke off with him. Miguel was shot and killed in her bedroom and Maria was found with the smoking gun in her hand, but claims no knowledge of how it got there as she maintains she was knocked unconscious. All evidence points to Maria as the killer, but Clouseau is convinced of her innocence because he has developed an immediate attraction to her. Realizing Clouseau has been inadvertently assigned to a high-profile case, Commissioner Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) has him removed and personally takes charge of the investigation.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Peter Sellers
Jacques Clouseau
Elke Sommer
Maria Gambrelli
George Sanders
Benjamin Ballon
Herbert Lom
Charles Dreyfus
Tracy Reed
Dominique Ballon
Graham Stark
Hercule LaJoy
Moira Redmond
Simone
Vanda Godsell
Madame LaFarge