The cartoon follows the adventures of an actual pink panther with the occasional cartoon starring Inspector Clouseau.

Jeff Holder

The Pink Panther remains for the most part a fairly mundane story of a suave, charming, international jewel thief, the Phantom (David Niven) attempting to gain the confidence of a beautiful princess (Claudia Cardinale) in order to steal the most fabulous diamond in the world, The Pink Panther. There is something of an imbalance still in the film – Sellers’ Clouseau is an island of clumsy incompetence among a cast of distinguished actors trying to play a sophisticated crime thriller. It’s like setting Charlie Chaplin loose in a Bond film. Frankly, the film is rather dull and tedious but for the presence of Sellers, whose every movement is pure comic genius and in many ways the semi-serious tone of the film works in his favour

Language: English

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