The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...

David Niven
as Sir Charles Lytton

Peter Sellers
as Insp. Jacques Clouseau

Claudia Cardinale
as The Princess Dala

Capucine
as Simone Clouseau

Robert Wagner
as George Lytton

Brenda De Banzie
as Angela Dunning

Colin Gordon
as Tucker

John Le Mesurier
as Defence Barrister (as John LeMesurier)

James Lanphier
as Saloud

Guy Thomajan
as Artoff
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David Niven recreates a little of his "Raffles" (1939) character here as the suave and debonaire "Sir Charles Lytton". He's a social sophisticate who is invited to the grandest of soirées and where there is always a jewel robbery. Nobody has ever quite put two and two together before until "Clouseau...