directed by Blake Edwards
and is the second installment in the Pink Panther series. Peter Sellers
is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau
of the French Sûreté
. Clouseau's bumbling personality is unchanged, but it was in this film that Sellers began to give him the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that was to become a hallmark of the character. The film also introduces Herbert Lom
as his boss, Commissioner Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouk
as his long-suffering servant, Cato, who would both become series regulars.
You fool! You have broken my pointing stick! Now I have nothing to point with!
Facts, Hercule, facts! Nothing matters but the facts. Without them the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
And I submit, Inspector Ballon, that you arrived home, found Miguel with Maria Gambrelli, and killed him in a rit of fealous jage!
It's all part of life's rich pageant.
I'm sorry, my idiot driver parked too close to the fountain.
Look at that. I have Africa all over my hand.
I believe everything and I believe nothing. I suspect everyone and I suspect no one.
You fool! I could have killed you with a karatay chop-uh!
You are forgetting the most important fact: motive.
You fool! You're off the case.