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THE PINK PANTHER
August 2, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This 1963 movie stars David Niven – whose day this is on TCM – as a master thief, and Robert Wagner as his equally suave and sly son. But the movie’s center turns out to be the bumbling detective on their trail: Inspector Jacques Cousteau, played to comic perfection by Peter Sellers. Some aspects of humor, you outgrow through the years – but Clouseau, he always makes me laugh, even just thinking about him. And when he spins that globe, I’m laughing even before he reaches out to stop it from rotating…

 
 
 
 
 
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