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Peter Sellers, David Niven, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Wagner

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Erin Mileur

The man who wrote the lyrics for the song in the movie "It Had Better Be Tonight" Johnny Mercer this is the third movie you guys have reacted to he has written songs for. He wrote for the Harvey Girls and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

Erin Mileur

The co-screenwriter of this movie Maurice Richlin also wrote the screenplay for another movie you have seen Pillow Talk.

Erin Mileur

Its funny that David Niven is called the Phantom because during WW2 when he served in the GHQ Liaison Regiment his code name was "The Phantom".

Actuarial Lurker

Claudia Cardinale was a major Italian actress who starred in dozens of films most notable to Americans: Fellini's 8 1/2, and Once Upon a Time in The West

Actuarial Lurker

Blake Edwards: Breakfast at Tiffanys, Days of Wine and Roses, 10, and Victor/Victoria along with the Pink Panther films

Youtalkingtome

Ah, that's right. It was Breakfast at Tiffany's. Thanks!

san

Sellers really steals every scene he is in, damn. Claudia Cardinale is so charming in this, but she pretty much always is.

Nick Stark

Fun fact: The actress that played the princess had an extremely heavy accent and was difficult to understand. They eventually decided to have all her dialogue dubbed. That’s not her actually speaking.

that girl

I did grow up watching Pink Panther movies, and Dr Strangelove is my favourite film, but in my heart, I'll always think of Peter Sellers as being from the Goon Show.

sharkey197

Peter Sellers stole the film from David Niven which resulted in shifting the focus to the Clousseau character in the subsequent films.

Ben Gilbert

Niven isn’t in the sequel, A Shot in The Dark, and Sir Charles is played by Christopher Plummer in one of later movies. A Shot in the Dark is when Kato was introduced along with Clouseau’s boss, Inspector Dreyfus. Both would be regulars in the series. Niven was a major star. He was in well over a hundred movies including Around The World in 80 Days, The Bishop’s Wife, Murder by Death, The Guns of Navarone, and Bachelor Mother.

Jeff

I grew up watching all the Pink Panther movies and I think they influenced my taste in comedy. Blake Edwards had a unique style of slow pacing, physical comedy, and quiet, low-key absurdist moments that few other directors had. The sequels all focused more on Clouseau and got progressively sillier, but they all contained some classically hilarious scenes. The character of Cato that you mentioned shows up in the next film, "A Shot in the Dark" (1964). David Niven was a leading man from the late '30s until his death in 1983. Two of his films you both would probably enjoy are "The Bishop's Wife" (1947), which would be a good selection for your Christmas poll, and "The Guns of Navarone" from 1961. A movie of his to avoid is the dreadful parody "Casino Royale" from 1967 in which he plays an aging James Bond. I actually enjoyed the film when I was 10, which tells you something about the maturity level of the movie's humor.

that girl

I think Around the World in 80 Days was Niven's biggest film

Jonathan

There are 11 pink panther movies if you count the 2 Steve Martin and the one without the involvement of Sellers/Edwards between the second and third movie. There are also many animated series.

vala p

And my favorite role of his, Mr. Julie Andrews

james repka

It was an unintended consequence that the Inspector Clouseau character was more popular than Sir Charles. Edwards and his crew recognized the character's potential during filming though. When Edwards was approached to direct A Shot in the Dark with Sellers already attached, he rewrote the script as a Clouseau vehicle and it was released the next year. This film introduced Herbert Lom as Clouseau's long-suffering supervisor Chief Inspector Dreyfuss and Burt Kwouk as Clouseau's manservant/sparring partner Cato.

Ben Gilbert

Sellers and Edwards did 2 Clouseau movies and then waited 10 years before they made another.

Ben Gilbert

The opening animations inspired the Saturday morning cartoons.

Andy_Payne

So the low down on Peter Sellers before acting - Born to touring vaudeville performer parents, performing on stage from childhood. He could play drums, the piano, and the ukulele and appeared in several dance bands. He joined the Royal Airforce during World War II and was part of an official RAF Gang Shows touring India, Burma, and Ceylon (like the USO tours for American troops). After the war he got a job at BBC radio as a versatile "voice man" and impressionist. Its through this connection that he went on to co-star in “The Goon Show” in the 50s with Spike Milligan (who played the hotel owner married to Rachel Welsh in the four musketeers) and Harry Secombe (Mr Bumble in Oliver), which had huge influence on British comedy like Monty Python.

Andy_Payne

And if your want to see some other great examples of his comedy genius run don’t walk and watch either “The Party” or “The Magic Christian” the later that also starred Ringo Star of Beatles fame.

Actuarial Lurker

The intent of this film and its sequels is to parody Hercule Poirot detective stories and James Bond and Peter Sellers stars in the 1967 Woody Allen Bond parody Casino Royale

Hu Main

Robert Wagner had a popular 66 episode show "It Takes a Thief" as a result of this movie where he plays a cat burglar for the government. That took some inspiration (along with The Pink Panther) from the Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief (1955). Personally I think the first 3 Pink Panther films are worth seeing, after that not really, though Sellers' character in The Party (1968, also by Blake Edwards) is very similar to Clouseau and worth watching if you like his early Pink Panther films.

Hu Main

oh god I forgot about the one starring the great Alan Arkin, that was dreadful (Inspector Clouseau, 1968). Skip that one, maybe substittuting The Party (1968) with Blake Edwards & Peter Sellers, and feels more like a Pink Panther movie.

Actuarial Lurker

With all the Tucker!, Tucker! exclamations was expecting Jesse and Mike to retrieve a batch of Chicken Batter from a house...wondering if Breaking Bad was doing a secret homage to this film...

Actuarial Lurker

I saw Return of the Pink Panther in theater at age 9 in 1975 and had NOT seen the original so this was interesting...they definitely became more slapstick with the sequels It looks like the 1964 sequel was co-wriiten by William Peter Blatty who of course wrote the Exorcist

Ben Gilbert

The 1964 film A Shot in the Dark is the best of the lot. Apparently Sellers and Edwards had some sort of falling out and they didn't make another Pink Panther movie for ten years.

kosmickrab

I grew up renting the Pink Panther movies constantly so I'm looking forward to having the rest of them on the list. You mentioned the opening credits sequence feeling like Looney Tunes. There's good reason. They were made by a team called DePatie-Freleng, with one of the founders being "Friz" Freleng, a legendary Looney Tunes director. They went on to make a Pink Panther cartoon series.

Gail Hislop

David Niven had an illustrious career with this film being one of his most popular, but also Around the World in 80 Days, Guns of Navarone, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Separate Tables that he won an Academy Award for. Funny you should have been getting James Bond vibes as he also played him a few years after this in Casino Royale. Capucine who is Clousseau’s wife and Claudia Cardinale were such divine beauties! The Henry Mancini soundtrack throughout the movie is sublime and that opening credits sequence is a classic!

Roland

Niven's autobiographies were best-sellers as well. I read the first one "The Moon's A Balloon" a long time ago, but remember it was unputdownable, a total and hilarious classic.

Youtalkingtome

Really? Oh that's really cool. Tonally I can see a similarity

Youtalkingtome

Talk about range lol I had no idea he started in screenwriting

Youtalkingtome

I've heard of the 67 Casino Royale. As a die hard Bond fan, I have never seen it and have no intention to

Roland

Having grown up with the Pink Panther movies and cartoons, I just assumed I'd seen this one too, but definitely not, and it really was a weird experience. I have to say I didn't really enjoy the movie, tonally it was all over the place, although now that I understand that it was meant to be a parody of the Bond and Poirot movies, I am inclined towards it a bit more favorably. The next two movies are brilliant* though well worth your time. * there's a non-zero risk that that's nostalgiabrain speaking, so caveat emptor 🤩

Roland

It's really good, one of Alistair Maclean's best, along with Where Eagles Dare, and quite a few others.

Lisa Klug

My mom loved these movies. The rest of the series is better than the first film, imho. This one is just the set-up. The pace is a bit slow, it picks up in later films. And, yes, like other people have said, the goofy Inspector is the center of the other films. The cartoon was a huge hit with kids in the 1960's. They hold up well today.