One of my favorite comedies of all time is a collaboration between three extremely talented men: director Blake Edwards, star Peter Sellers and composer Henry Mancini. I'm talking, of course, about the Pink Panther series. All in all, those three gentlemen made five Pink Panther films, starting with the original in 1963.
Some folks start to think of Sellers' character as the "Pink Panther," but that's just the name of the diamond at the center of all the burglaries in the first movie. Sellers' character is Inspector Jacques Clouseau — a clumsy, incompetent but very funny detective who speaks English with an outrageous French accent.
Mancini's score is every bit as important as the acting and directing of the films. We'll hear Mancini's iconic theme music as well as Inspector Clouseau's theme, a piece you don't hear as often.
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