The Pink Panther is a series of comedy Game featuring a bumbling French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The series began in 1963 with the release of the Game of the same name. The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers. Most of the Game were directed and co written by Blake Edwards, with theme music composed by Henry Mancini.
Despite its use in the titles of most of the Game of the series, "Pink Panther" is not the Clouseau character, but a large and valuable pink diamond which is first shown in the first Game in the series. The phrase reappears in the title of the fourth Game, The Return of the Pink Panther, in which the theft of the diamond is again the center of the plot. That Game also marked the return of Sellers to the role after a gap of ten years, which may have contributed to some confusion between the character and the diamond.
The phrase was used for all the subsequent films in the series, even when the jewel did not figure in the plot it only appeared in six of the eleven Game.
The first Game in the series had an animated opening sequence, created by DePatie Freleng Enterprises and set to the theme music by Henry Mancini, which featured the Pink Panther character. This character, designed by Hawley Pratt, was subsequently the subject of its own series of animated cartoons which gained its greatest fame when aired on Saturday mornings as The Pink Panther Show. The character would be featured in the opening of every film in the movie series except A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau.
The Pink Panther of the title is a diamond supposedly containing a flaw which forms the image of a "leaping panther", which can be seen if held up to light in a certain way. This is explained in the beginning of the first Game, and the camera zooms in on the diamond to reveal the blurry flaw, which focuses into the Panther albeit not actually leaping to start the opening credits sequence this is also done in Return. The plot of the first Game is based on the theft of this diamond. The diamond reappears in several later Games in the series The Return of the Pink Panther, Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther. It also comes in the 2006 reintroduction of Inspector Clouseau also called The Pink Panther and its sequel The Pink Panther 2. The name "the Pink Panther" became attached to Inspector Clouseau, in much the same way that Frankenstein has been used in film titles to refer to Dr. Frankenstein's creation or The Thin Man was used in a series of detective films.
Despite its use in the titles of most of the Game of the series, "Pink Panther" is not the Clouseau character, but a large and valuable pink diamond which is first shown in the first Game in the series. The phrase reappears in the title of the fourth Game, The Return of the Pink Panther, in which the theft of the diamond is again the center of the plot. That Game also marked the return of Sellers to the role after a gap of ten years, which may have contributed to some confusion between the character and the diamond.
The phrase was used for all the subsequent films in the series, even when the jewel did not figure in the plot it only appeared in six of the eleven Game.
The first Game in the series had an animated opening sequence, created by DePatie Freleng Enterprises and set to the theme music by Henry Mancini, which featured the Pink Panther character. This character, designed by Hawley Pratt, was subsequently the subject of its own series of animated cartoons which gained its greatest fame when aired on Saturday mornings as The Pink Panther Show. The character would be featured in the opening of every film in the movie series except A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau.
The Pink Panther of the title is a diamond supposedly containing a flaw which forms the image of a "leaping panther", which can be seen if held up to light in a certain way. This is explained in the beginning of the first Game, and the camera zooms in on the diamond to reveal the blurry flaw, which focuses into the Panther albeit not actually leaping to start the opening credits sequence this is also done in Return. The plot of the first Game is based on the theft of this diamond. The diamond reappears in several later Games in the series The Return of the Pink Panther, Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther. It also comes in the 2006 reintroduction of Inspector Clouseau also called The Pink Panther and its sequel The Pink Panther 2. The name "the Pink Panther" became attached to Inspector Clouseau, in much the same way that Frankenstein has been used in film titles to refer to Dr. Frankenstein's creation or The Thin Man was used in a series of detective films.
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