The Pink Panther

1963. USA. Directed by Blake Edwards. The Mirisch Company/United Artists. Produced by Martin Jurow. Screenplay by Maurice Richlin, Edwards. With Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Claudia Cardinale. Sellers introduces one of cinema’s most original and enduring comic creations: Inspector Clouseau, the bungling French detective who never gets his man. The film’s bedroom scene, with suave international jewel thief Niven carrying on an affair with Clouseau’s wife right under his nose, is a paradigm of impeccably timed farce. 114 min.