The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther is a series of comedies with the clumsy French policeman Jacques Clouseau, began in 1963 with the film of the same name. The role was created and is intimately connected with Peter Sellers. Most of the films were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards, composed with the important topic of music by Henry Mancini.

Despite its use in the titles of most films in the series, which is "Pink Panther" is not the character of Clouseau, but a diamond and precious stones, large shadow of the same name, this is the "MacGuffin" of the first film series. The expression is found in the title of the fourth film, The Return Of The Pink Panther, in which the theft of the diamond again the center of the plot of this film also marked the return of sales role after a gap of ten years, the might have contributed to some confusion between the character and the diamond. The term was used for all subsequent films in the series, even if the gem (in the value of the plot of the diamond) is only apparent in six of the eleven films in the series.