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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards build another precisely choreographed catastrophe around an oblivious disruptor, with escalating social mayhem and visual gags rather than conventional plot logic.
02
Why this pick
A fast, elegant screwball chase full of mistaken identities, escalating coincidences, and increasingly extravagant comic set pieces captures the buoyant momentum beneath Clouseau’s disasters.
03
Why this pick
Blake Edwards applies the same love of broad physical comedy, elaborate machinery, and comic antagonism to a lavish, globe-spanning rivalry.
04
Why this pick
Rowan Atkinson’s vain but catastrophically inept secret agent offers a modern Clouseau-like collision of deadpan self-confidence, espionage stakes, and physical mishaps.
05
Why this pick
The original establishes the series’ refined comic grammar: Clouseau’s earnest investigations, romantic European polish, and meticulously timed destruction caused by his own incompetence.
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01 / THE STORY
At a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus is largely recovered from his obsession to kill the new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau and is about to be released when Clouseau, arriving to speak on Dreyfus' behalf, within minutes drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus later escapes from the hospital and once again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato. The bomb destroys Clouseau's apartment and injures Cato, but Clouseau himself is unharmed, being lifted from the room by an inflatable disguise. Deciding that a more elaborate plan is needed to eliminate Clouseau, Dreyfus enlists an army of criminals to his cause and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender and the Professor's daughter Margo, forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's freedom.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Chief Inspector Clouseau
Dreyfus
Olga
Cato
Drummond
Quinlan
Francois
Secretary of State
