A madcap frolic of crime and fun, Blake Edwards’ riotous romp (the first in the beloved franchise) finds Peter Sellers at his bumbling best as the blundering French police inspector Jacques Clouseau. Hot on the trail of an international jewel thief known as The Phantom, who has his eyes set on the legendary Pink Panther diamond, Clouseau’s case leads to a plush Italian ski lodge and will become hilariously entangled with an English playboy (David Niven) and his brash American nephew (Robert Wagner), a beautiful princess (Claudia Cardinale), and even his own philandering wife (Capucine).
