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Topic: Inspector Jacques Clouseau


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  Inspector Clouseau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inspector Jacques Clouseau is a bumbling fictional French detective who was a character in the Blake Edwards's Pink Panther series.
Though the character in the animated The Inspector was never given a name, he is clearly based on Clouseau.
Steve Martin's rendition of Clouseau in the 2006 film is considered to be a rebooting of the character.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inspector_Clouseau   (353 words)

  
 Pink Panther - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The name stuck once the Pink Panther became synonymous with Inspector Clouseau, in much the way that Frankenstein was used in film titles to refer to Frankenstein's Monster.
Jacques Clouseau is a bumbling simpleton who believes himself to be a detective, if not a genius.
In Son of the Pink Panther, he deals with Clouseau's equally buffoonish son Jacques Gambrelli but, going by the track record of his nemesis, is more accepting of him than he was of Clouseau himself.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pink_Panther   (2458 words)

  
 Revenge of the Pink Panther
Jacques Clouseau is his most memorable character, and he slipped into the inspector's trench coat without hesitation, because he knew that audiences loved his performance as the clumsy Clouseau.
Inspector Clouseau was recently promoted to Chief Inspector, to replace Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), who somehow regains visibility after being wiped out in The Pink Panther Strikes Again.
Inspector Clouseau saw his last case, but Blake Edwards, perhaps courageously, kept the series alive.
www.geocities.com /moviecritic.geo/reviews/r/revengepinkpanther.html   (622 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Pink Panther
In the original Pink Panther movie, the main focus was on on David Niven's role as Sir Charles Lytton, aka the infamous jewel thief "the Phantom", and his plot to steal the Pink Panther from its original owner.
The Inspector Clouseau character played essentially a supporting role as Lytton's incompetent antagonist, and provided slapstick comic relief to a movie that was a subtle, light-hearted crime drama.
Clouseau's superior, who is eventually driven murderously insane by his intolerance for Clouseau's stupidity.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Pink_Panther   (1532 words)

  
 The Pink Panther Film Collection DVD Review at The Z Review UK DVD reviews
Inspector Clouseau investigates a country-house murder in which all fingers point to the pretty maid Maria but Clouseau clearly sees her innocence.
Clouseau's summary of 'the facts' has passed into legend, while his antics at the Ballon household are side-splittingly funny.
Clouseau's darkened entry into (and tumbling exit from) a small gym room, for example, is a true highlight, while even trivial matters such as ordering a hotel room (or 'reum') are made funny.
www.thezreview.co.uk /dvdreviews/p/pinkpanther.shtm   (2111 words)

  
 Inspector Clouseau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Inspector Jacques Clouseau is a bumbling fictional French detective who was a character in Blake Edwards Pink Panther series.
In most of the films was played by Peter Sellers with one film in which he played by Alan Arkin.
The character has an illegitimate son also Jacques Clouseau who was played by Roberto Benigni in the film Son of the Panther.
www.freeglossary.com /Inspector_Clouseau   (292 words)

  
 Pink Panther
Clouseau: Are you the head waiter at the leetle Beestro on the Roudy Bouzzare?
In the first movie starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, he tries to catch a jewel thief who is right under his nose.
After being driven over the edge by Clouseau, Inspector Dreyfus escapes from the mental asylum in an attempt to murder Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau once and for all.
www.jacquedee63.com /pinkpanther.html   (419 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts:Movies:Titles:P:Pink Panther Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Former Chief Inspector, Charles Dreyfus, escapes from the mental asylum and plots to kill the new Chief Inspector, Jacques Clouseau.
Once Clouseau's death has been announced, the former Chief Inspector, Charles Dreyfus, begins to improve and is released from the mental hospital.
The famous French detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau, investigates the murder of a man at a country house.
dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Titles/P/Pink_Panther_Series/desc.html   (417 words)

  
 The Return of the Pink Panther Movie Review at Hollywood Video
As Lady Lytton is in on Clouseau's whole surveillance scheme, she can barely keep a straight face around him as, undercover, he clumsily tries to woo her and throw her off track—to no avail.
Sure, when Clouseau innocently sits down at the edge of a swimming pool or enters a revolving door, you know where it's going, but Sellers is such a master of physical comedy that he makes these crazy moments work over and over.
When Cato (Burt Kwouk), Clouseau's trusty manservant, ambushes his boss during their ongoing game of hide-seek-and-demolish, the ensuing mayhem seems to go way beyond the bounds of the movie's "G" rating.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=1331   (962 words)

  
 The Pink Panther
Inspector Clouseau has been trying uncover his identity for a long time.
Inspector Clouseau and his wife Simone (Capucine) stay at a resort where Princess Dala is visiting.
Its greatest contribution was introducing Inspector Jacques Clouseau and hinting that something better was over the horizon.
www.geocities.com /moviecritic.geo/reviews/p/pinkpanther.html   (453 words)

  
 A Shot in the Dark (1964)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Plot Outline: As murder follows murder, beautiful Maria is the obvious suspect; bumbling Inspector Clouseau drives his boss mad by seeing her as plainly innocent.
The maid, Maria Gambrelli was found in a locked room with a gun in her hands and a body at her feet - all the clues appear to point to her, but Clouseau is too taken by her beauty to believe it could be her.
The problem with this is that the comedy around Clouseau usually requires a small build up and hence a lag before the laugh - hence the laughs are spaced rather than consistent.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0058586   (812 words)

  
 The Pink Panther - ComingSoon.net Movie Reviews
Instead, bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) is assigned to find the diamond and the killer and bring him to justice.
Martin plays Clouseau as the typical wise-fool - bumbling, but unaware of it, and thus capable of seeing some things others might miss, which allows for some obvious setups that seem like they could be funny but generally aren't.
As forgettable as everyone else is, Kline is always a joy to watch in the film, particularly when he is being unknowingly tortured by Clouseau.
comingsoon.net /news/reviewsnews.php?id=13128   (335 words)

  
 REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER with Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon - HOMEVIDEOS.com
After Jacques Clouseau unintentionally, unknowingly knocks the hit man off the balcony who was inturn stalking him, in a hilarious sequence where Clouseau was hunting Cato, as is their custom, an elaborate ambush is planned.
When Clouseau is reported dead, Dreyfus feels much better, and is said to be cured, and even gives the liturgy at Clouseau's funeral, trying hard not to laugh.
Jacques Clouseau, dressed in the transvestite's clothes is picked up by the police, who then check him into the same mental hospital as his old boss, Inspector Dreyfuss, who is preparing to leave the hospital, thinking Clouseau is finally behind him, now that he is dead.
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 smart :: Face in the Crowd: 'Pink Panther's' Inspector Clouseau Chases Criminals in a smart fortwo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
However unlike in the past, Inspector Clouseau now also drives the right car for the part: The smart fortwo is considered the "it" vehicle in many European cities such as Rome, Paris, London and Berlin.
Both have a strong character and are the 'face in the crowd' as it were.
At http://media.smart.com/ you will find pictures of Inspector Clouseau with the smart fortwo and also pictures of other smart vehicles.
sev.prnewswire.com /auto/20050307/NYM20707032005-1.html   (335 words)

  
 The Pink Panther: New panther starts fast, runs out of comic steam: SouthFlorida.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Happily, Martin (who co-wrote the script) is up to the task; his Clouseau is an ode to Sellers' brilliant impersonation while also adding uniquely Martinesque tics to the bumbling character.
The story, such as it is, begins with the murder of a famed French soccer coach by poisoned dart, and the subsequent disappearance from his finger of a humongous diamond known as the "Pink Panther." Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) wants ultimate credit for solving the case.
And the ending is one big "huh?" Clouseau suddenly morphs into a smart detective able to solve the case, while the culprit seems to have been plucked randomly from the cast of suspects.
southflorida.com /movies/sfl-shpantherfeb10,0,7242384.story?...   (460 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A dart dipped in a rare Chinese poison is found in his neck, and the famous Pink Panther diamond, which Glaunt wore in a ring, is missing.
Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Kevin Kline, in the role originated by Herbert Lom) assigns Clouseau to the case, not because he thinks he can solve it but because he's certain the clumsy and astonishingly self-confident officer will distract the media from his own investigation.
Dreyfus promotes Clouseau to inspector and teams him with Gendarme Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno), though Ponton's real job is to keep an eye on Clouseau and report his every move.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/ShowMovie.asp?MI=46189   (263 words)

  
 Steve Martin revives bungling Inspector Clouseau
Steve Martin is to take over the trenchcoat of the hapless Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the accident-prone Parisian policeman created by Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther films.
MGM is making The Birth of the Pink Panther, a return to the original 1964 film, in which the detective embarks on the trail of a slippery jewel thief.
Since the 1980 death of Sellers, the role has been played by Sir Roger Moore in The Curse of the Pink Panther and Alan Arkin in Inspector Clouseau, with Roberto Benigni playing the inspector's equally inept offspring, Jacques Clouseau Jnr, in Son of the Pink Panther.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/1000547/posts   (2011 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Steve Martin : Movie News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
When Steve Martin revives the role of Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the upcoming "The Pink Panther" prequel, the object of his affection will be none other than the bootylicious R&B
Clouseau comes into the picture when Chief Inspector Dreyfus, played by Kevin Kline, needs him to take over the investigation.
To keep tabs on the accident-prone investigator, Dreyfus hires Ponton, portrayed by veteran French actor Jean Reno ("Mission: Impossible"), to be Clouseau's right-hand man. The investigation is, of course, hindered when Clouseau meets Xania and is immediately smitten by the beautiful singer.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/89725/news/articles/1485971/story.jhtml   (279 words)

  
 Press release
Originally released in 1976, The Pink Panther Strikes Again was the fourth in the film series that starred Peter Sellers in the role of the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
In the story, the world's clumsiest inspector fights for his life, and for that of all mankind.
His long-suffering boss, Paul Dreyfus, who has been driven mad by Clouseau's undeserved success, gains access to a Doomsday machine that he threatens to use against the world unless Clouseau is killed.
www.sunybroome.edu /~pr/pinkpanther.html   (272 words)

  
 Susan Granger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Steve Martin humiliates himself in this dreadful reincarnation of Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the bumbling, incompetent French policeman who mangles syntax, as immortalized in a series of comedies by the late Peter Sellers.
The legend of the “Pink Panther” began in 1963 with Blake Edwards’ original, which was designed as a vehicle for urbane David Niven.
The Clouseau character was conceived as an homage to silent film comics like Keaton and Chaplin.
www.rottentomatoes.com /click/author-1274/reviews.php?rid=1484491   (353 words)

  
 iFMagazine.com Features - Profile: STEVE MARTIN REINVENTS INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU FOR THE PINK PANTHER REMAKE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It was forty-three years ago that Peter Sellers donned the bumbling persona of Inspector Jacques Clouseau in Blake Edward’s classic, THE PINK PANTHER.
With Hollywood’s stigma toward fresh material and their incessant tendencies toward remaking popular movies from the past, it was only a matter of time before they got around to revamping the farcical misadventures of the screwy, French inspector.
Opposed to imitating Peter Seller’s madcap depiction of the witless detective in the new PINK PANTHER, Martin explains it was important to him to completely reinvent the character of Inspector Clouseau for the new film.
www.ifmagazine.com /transitional.asp?strURL=feature.asp?article=1425   (1481 words)

  
 MGM Movie Database: The Pink Panther
Meet Inspector Jacques Clouseau - the bumbling French detective whose career is one gigantic banana peel.
Arriving at an Italian ski resort with a large diamond known as the Pink Panther, Princess Dala (Claudia Cardinale) encounters the suave Sir Charles (Niven), who also happens to be the notorious jewel thief The Phantom.
Can Clouseau (Sellers), the clumsiest inspector ever to trip over a case, stop Sir Charles' plot...
www.mgm.com /title_title.do?title_star=PINKPANT   (135 words)

  
 Inspector Clouseau (1968)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Trivia: Alan Arkin got the role of Clouseau after Peter Sellers declined to play the part a third time.
This was the last Clouseau film until Sellers returned to the role in 1975.
Quotes: Inspector Jacques Clouseau: There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0063135   (311 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Robinson Clouseau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
What would happen if the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau was stranded on a deserted island?
This series would tell what would happen and be filled with funny antics, especially if Chief Inspector Dreyfus was there, too.
And if you get into the water when box jellyfish or irukandji are about then you don't have long to live.
www.halfbakery.com /lr/idea/Robinson_20Clouseau   (219 words)

  
 Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Pink Panther
Said thief is also the inspector's wife's lover, though the inspector doesn't know it.
Slick slapstick succeeds on strength of Sellers' classic portrayal of Clouseau, who accidentally destroys everything in his path while speaking in a funny French accent.
Followed by "A Shot in the Dark," "Inspector Clouseau" (without Sellers), "The Return of the Pink Panther," "The Pink Panther Strikes Again," "Revenge of the Pink Panther," "Trail of the Pink Panther," and "Curse of the Pink Panther." Memorable theme supplied by Mancini.
www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=51318276   (344 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Martin bumbles into fun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
But, as ever, the casualties that matter are all Clouseau victims: logic, the English language and antagonized police chief Charles Dreyfus.
Transforming Clouseau's perennial nemesis into a more urbane smoothie, Kevin Kline delivers like a pro — though his performance is dwarfed by memories of Herbert Lom, who originated the role, and his degrading descents into foamy lips and straitjackets.
Highest marks in the foil department go to Jean Reno as a stolidly confused Clouseau colleague and Emily Mortimer (perfectly adorable) as a dizzy morale-booster.
usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2006-02-09-panther-review_x.htm?...   (486 words)

  
 NLP Meta Model, by John David Hoag
Clouseau: "Brace yourself for what I am about to tell you.
Clouseau: "Yes, I admit it's not a very good photograph."
Clouseau: "Oh, you mean, 'What is strange?' "
www.nlpls.com /articles/NLPmetaModel.php   (3448 words)

  
 The Pink Panther Celebrates 40th Anniversary - Mystery Movies
Actor Peter Sellers took the role of Inspector Jacques Clouseau and made it his own.
Lom appears in all of the Panther movies to follow as the beleaguered chief who is always close to a nervous breakdown because he has to contend with Clouseau's bungling.
That makes these Pink Panther movies all the more fun since Jacques Clouseau can't find even the most obvious killer.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art20673.asp   (442 words)

  
 » “Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Does (beelerspace)
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau: [bowing down to pet the dog] Nice doggie.
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I thought you said your dog did not bite!
I am fairly certain that I have some kind of learning disability in regard to languages.
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