Curse of the Pink Panther

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) is Blake Edwards' slapstick detective comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Inspector Clouseau has vanished, and somebody needs to find him — or, more precisely, somebody needs to pretend to find him while making sure they don't.

Chief Inspector Dreyfus, who loathes Clouseau with every nerve in his body, secretly rigs the Sûreté's computer to select the world's worst detective instead of the best. Up steps NYPD Sergeant Clifton Sleigh, played by Ted Wass — blundering through international assassination attempts, corrupt officials and a trail of chaos with the same cheerful obliviousness that made Clouseau legendary. David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, and Roger Moore round out a cast that keeps the absurdity moving.

The film marked the end of the original Panther series that Peter Sellers had anchored, and Edwards built an entire new comic engine around the concept of spectacular, earnest incompetence. Stream Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) online on iFILM.