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Overview

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7.6/10   9,227 votes
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Director:
Blake Edwards
Writers:
Blake Edwards (screenplay) and
William Peter Blatty (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
23 June 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family | Mystery more
Tagline:
It's Sellers the Sleuth... and there's nothing he won't do to track down a body -- dead or alive! more
Plot:
As murder follows murder, beautiful Maria is the obvious suspect; bumbling Inspector Clouseau drives his boss mad by seeing her as plainly innocent. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Lesser known, but this is the best Pink Panther film more (90 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
102 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Canada:13+ (Quebec) (original rating) | Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) (re-rating) (2003) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Portugal:M/12 | Iceland:L | New Zealand:PG | USA:Approved (certificate #20691) | Canada:G (video rating) | Netherlands:AL | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Brazil:12 | Finland:K-16 | Ireland:PG | Norway:11 (re-rating) | Norway:16 (original rating) | Singapore:PG | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1988) | USA:PG (re-rating) (1975) | West Germany:12

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Trivia:
Body count: 8 more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Peter Sellers answers the door bell and finds a package (a clock with a bomb) you can see clearly that someone has left the keys in the door lock as he opens the door. more
Quotes:
Clouseau: [after bumping into Hercule] You fool! I could have killed you with a karatay chop-uh!
[tries to leave and runs into him again]
Clouseau: You fool! You're off the case!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The 50 Greatest Comedy Films (2006) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Shadows of Paris more

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23 out of 28 people found the following comment useful.
Lesser known, but this is the best Pink Panther film, 3 November 2002
9/10
Author: funkyfry from Oakland CA

A fast paced comedy/mystery less about who-dun-it than how many corpses can they fit in the movie?! The Inspector Clousseau character returns and Sellars is to be credited with creating a characterization that seems just believable enough to be ridiculous.

Some very funny moments of physical and verbal humor. Sommer is mostly window dressing in this role, forced to play straight-gal to Sellars' sometimes manic "clumsiness". Lom makes his first series appearance (with hilarious facial tics) as the head cop. The best film in the series.

Very memorable opening sequence set to Mancini's excellent theme song is one of the film's many highlights.

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