The Pink Panther (1963)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Mar 20, 1963 Wide
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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
Mar 20, 1963 Wide
Aug 15, 2001
United Artists
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Cast
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David Niven
Sir Charles Lytton -
Peter Sellers
Inspector Jacques Clous... -
Robert Wagner
George Lytton -
Capucine
Simone Clouseau -
Claudia Cardinale
Princess Dala -
Brenda De Banzie
Angela Dunning -
Fran Jeffries
Greek "Cousin" -
Colin Gordon
Tucker -
John Le Mesurier
Defense Attorney -
James Lanphier
Saloud -
Guy Thomajan
Artoff -
Michael Trubshawe
Novelist -
Riccardo Billi
Greek Shipowner -
Martin Miller
Photographer -
Meri Welles
Hollywood Starlet
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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (3) | DVD (12)
The first film of the popular series, in which David Niven (not Peter Sellers) is the nominal lead, introduced Mancini's pouncing score
Funny and entertaining after all these years.
The whole ensemble is played like a Stradivarius
It is fun to look back and see how Peter Sellers completely stole the film from its bankable star, David Niven.
All the ingredients for a great evening at the movies: lively music, eye-catching scenery, larger-than-life comic set pieces, suave men and beautiful women, and odd-man-out Clouseau, played to perfection by the one and only Peter Sellers. [Blu-ray]
Sellers is at the top of his game.
A good beginning
Hilarious no matter how many times you watch it. Slapstick for the sixties.
Sellers' first Clouseau trip is fun, sets pace for rest of series
Wall-to-wall exposition courtesy of talking tuxedoes
I found it overrated.
Clouseau (Sellers) is...a character that must go down as one of the great comic creations in motion picture history.
The first in the series -- and strangely enough -- the least amusing.
Sure, it gave Sellers his classic role, but on its own, it's not that great
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- Inspector Jacques Clouseau: [having stepped on and broken the violin] Oh well, if you've seen one Stradivarius, you've seen them all.
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Foreign Titles
- Der rosarote Panther (DE)
- The Pink Panther (1963) (CA)
