'Simone, where is my Surété Scotland Yard-type mackintosh?'
The first in a long-running series of five films featuring
the clumsy antics of Peter Sellers's bungling pseudo-French detective Inspector
Clouseau, 'The Pink Panther' is also the most measured, languorous and subtle
of the set. Not wishing to sound patronising, but there's a nagging suspicion that
one or two of our contributors for this poll may have mistakenly or forgetfully
chosen this diamond-heist comedy as a generic title for one of the others in
the series, possibly 'The Pink Panther Strikes Again' (at number 95). While
often very funny, Sellers's incompetent character only came to the fore from
the second film, 'A Shot in the Dark', onwards. Consequently, anyone seeing
this expecting wall-to-wall Sellers may be a mite disappointed. But hey, it
still knocks spots off the awful 2006 remake. DA
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