I've seen this scene dozens of times and I am still in tears laughing whenever I see it. Peter Sellers was born to play Inspector Clouseau. Pure comical genius. There will never be another.
Haha! Love how he reprimands Francois for not knowing everything about his car, while the whole time it's Clouseau's car. Another brilliant bit! RIP Sellers, you mad genius!
Another hilarious example of Peter Sellers' greatness, but don't forget the roles played by Andre Maranne and Herbert Lom in making these scenes so hysterical.
There was a definite bad omen. Just before he stabbed the cigarette lighter with catastrophic results, an Austin Allegro passed their Peugeot doing an uncharacteristically high...er....well.. increased level of speed. The Allegro driver got lucky; this time it was not the Allegro that blew up. And believe me, i have ridden many a worrying trip in Allegros (Allegrii ??). But, just a thought - Seeing an Allegro on a French road made me realize that if there was ever a single Frenchman who bought one in preference to a 2CV or a Simca etc, this consigns the whole French nation to a basket case. Hopefully it isn't true, and it was a lucky English tourist. Vive La France!!
Steve Martin's 'attempt' at Clouseau was disgustingly embarrassing and completely ignorant. Never should have been released. And personally I like some of Steve's other comedies.
The only funny part of the remade pink panther movies with Steve Martin was when as clouseau he opened up the doors of the horse stable and he was trampled. But everything else was a poor imitation of the original pink panther movies with Peter sellers.
Pink Panther and Naked Gun movies are the most hilarious and absurd comedies. The serious faces of Peter Sellers and Leslie Nielsen in their movies are priceless.
Pure comedic genius. You didnt need a din of background music and special effects, nor constant dialogue when Peter Sellers was involved. The silence and subtleties of acting are in themselves very funny with both actors. Look at how the straight man enables the concealment by keeping his eyes on the road, and letting Clouseau have his space to demolish the car. We have no films like those, nor actors today....
Guillermo Garraton yes - he was absolutely fantastic in this clip:Understated, perfect comic timing, great voice and face. And on a par with Selllers here.🥳
I have a few DVD of the Pink Panther episodes, he is so clumsy, foolish, crazy as a police officer but yet he is very extremely funny, hilarious, and always get the job done right.
The master Peter Sellers crazy as hell the incredible inspector Clouseau. Brilliant detective with incredible skills a Master of disguise with dangerous cat like reflexes. And definitely The Ladies Man.often imitated but truly never duplicated Peter Sellers is the one and only inspector Cousteau at its best
Incredible and classic and priceless scene. Your puuupp out lighterrr is refuuusing to puuuppp out. Hysterical. Your a genius for posting the funniest clips ever and thanks so much.
The carachter "inspector Clouseau" will never be the same without this guy. It is not even near that. "Da bamb" is allways around with him. Hilarious. Thank you Peter Sellers.
There will never be comedy like this again. The times when everyone made fun of everything and everybody and nobody got in a stiff about it. Now you can't even say female or male it's getting absurd.
Peter Sellers was a comic genius on a level that had never been and perhaps will never be again. Steve Martin is also an amazingly gifted actor that mistakenly took on the role of attempting to remake genius, proving that it just cannot be done.
The spirit of Clouseau is alive and well in the bumbling insertion of those brass flourishes at either end of this video. Why must you deafen and startle us so? Why on earth?
I once had a Peugeot "504 Brake" for a few years. It was actually a very very good and solid car. Comfortable and pleasant to drive too. I only bought it beacause it was old and cheap but It turned out to be a much better car than I expected!
I miss Peter so much. Anyone who has never seen his last film "Being There" has not seen him at his subtle best. It's priceless. You'd almost think the movie was the inspiration for "Forest Gump".
@rj zander And THAT is why I dont watch new movies. Im not "stuck in the 50s" or something but I wont pay to be brainwashed with SJW and related bullshit. I stopped watching TV series made in the past 10 years too. But...you brought up a point often forgotten. Im from Calif and there were theatres in LA which showed old classics like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, foreign classics and yes people came and PAID to see them. Fantastic. I dont know the scope of this and whether there are such theatres around the country but its an opportunity.
Don't get actors mixed up with director and screenwriters. Of course everyone plays their part in the production, but without good direction and screenplay you can be Robert De Niro and the film will still suck.
@@Philip.Magnusson Yes, But like many of the "forgettable movies" Sally Fields said she was in she still got great reviews for her acting despite "having no decent script to work with." She said she took any role offered and later it turned out great for her. She voiced a cat in "Homeward Bound" and then got the part in Mrs. Doubtfire. She took the part in "Punchline" with young Tom Hanks and later got the part in "Forrest Gump". I'm sure DeNiro had movies like that as well.
Rowan Atkinson seemed like he would have been the natural to take over. Martin was atrocious I don't understand how not one but two movies were made with him.
NO ONE should watch the Steve Martin version!!! If u know Peter’s portrayal, watch that version. I’m a big fan of Steve’s but it was a BIG mistake and pretty ballsy to recreate such a beloved iconic character. It doesn’t come close at all! I’ll stick with the Pink Panther films Peter Sellers made. Those are classics and can’t be touched! Period!
No one can actually do it like Peter Sellers, he has charisma and genius to be the best Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther episodes? To me Steve Martin can never be just like Peter Sellers actually.
1.46 clip just to say "Clouseau was trying to fix the lighter; he was sure someone planted a bomb in the car." It almost needs no intro ! An improved version: "Clouseau was only trying to fix the lighter; he was sure someone planted a bomb in the car."
"But it's your automobile?" "I knøw that, but it's not my pøp-out lighter. If it were my pøp-out lighter, I would knøw the specific pøp-out temperature." Interesting logic, and hilarious.
In real life Sellers was always serious. But if he crawled into his role as Clouseau, he always did a perfect job. No one can replace Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, not even a very funny Steve Martin or Roberto Benigni ( actually he played Jacques Gambrelli, the son of...) . Peter Sellers was a genius on humor territory. A shame he`s no longer among us, because he could make people laugh. It was his birthday yesterday........happy Birthday Mr Sellers, and rest in peace.
Comedy Gold. Only Peter Sellers had the chops to make Clouseau's deadpan ridiculousness and bumbling successes believable. Truly a genius. For the love of God, please stop re-making these classics.
Tis Irish Bob saying hello There was only one Peter Sellers comedic genius. This role solidified it fer all to enjoy. Sorry Steve ye just don't have that magic fer this role ole boy. Enjoy yer weekend ahead. Still love the great classics of real comedy. Continues to make me laugh my arse off.😬😬 Irish Bob 🤗😇😎🇮🇪🇨🇵🍀☘️🦾🩺🥂
Love how all these French men, who work for the Sûreté...in France, all speak to each other in heavily French accented English. Part of what makes it all so hysterically absurd.
So amazingly funny! The genius of Sellers' Closeau is in the smallest of subtleties! He can bring you to laughing tears just tapping the cigarette on the dash and smashing it then trying to blow the tobacco off!! I'm a huge Steve Martin fan but he should never have taken on the role of Inspector Closeau! Sellers WAS Closeau!!
Yes, would be like someone else doing Abbott and Costello or Johnny Carson for example... just ain't gonna work. What I don't understand is why Martin didn't know that... well, maybe he did but the money was right
@@cksammi - Yes, you are right - in their OWN ways! Martin is not Sellers and should not have attempted to play a part that was one in which Sellers originated and mastered! Steve Martin is a comic genius and an original in his own right - he didn't need to attempt to update Inspector Clouseau because Sellers' is timeless!
The more the World lurches left with P.C. and identity politics and the growth of humorless work places and the increase in the " offenderati" I need to see more of Clouseau ,,, I somehow I seem to understand this better. Les Griffiths
Quite sad to think that Peter Sellers only had a few weeks of his life left when this scene was filmed. He died roughly halfway during the shooting of this Motion Picture.
This was a deleted scene from an earlier Panther movie so was filmed 5-6 years before Seller's death. All the scenes with Seller's in Trail of the Pink Panther are mainly deleted scenes from Pink Panther Strikes Again.
That was definitely a bomb, Clousseau was right. The producers put it there, maybe even two of them, and somebody got paid for it. Never doubt the good Inspector, you do so at your own risk. But then again, life is risky business, just ask Clousseau.
The end of the cigarette lighter was stuck in the thingy and he was... you know... like putting a butter knife into the toaster to get the stuck toast out.
