Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 03/23/1999
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 115 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: MGM
In the first in a series of detective
comedies from director
Blake Edwards starring
Peter Sellers as bumbling French
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the mishap-prone snoop is actually a supporting player.
David Niven stars as Sir Charles Litton, a suave jewel thief known as "The Phantom." Vacationing in a deluxe Alpine resort, Litton's real purpose is to purloin the Pink Panther, a gem of enormous worth owned by a princess (
Claudia Cardinale). On his trail for years,
Inspector Clouseau keeps losing his quarry, perhaps because his wife Simone (
Capucine) is Litton's lover and alerts him every time her husband draws near. Also after the Panther is Litton's American nephew, George (
Robert Wagner). At a posh costume ball at the princess' villa, the bauble is stolen and
Clouseau, still trying to determine the bandit's identity, is framed for the crime himself.
The Pink Panther (1964) made
Sellers and his
Clouseau act so popular that the character moved to center stage in a series of farcical sequels.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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