The Pink Panther Collection

As the put-upon boss of the world’s worst detective once observed, “Give me ten men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world.” But of course, there’s only one man like Peter Sellers, despite the painful attempts of Ted Wass, Roberto Benigni, and Alan Arkin to make us forget that. (Prediction: Steve Martin’s upcoming remake won’t fare any better.) Inspector Clouseau belongs to Sellers the way the Little Tramp belongs to Chaplin. This six-disc set skips over the non-Sellers—and, alas, Return of the Pink Panther, to which MGM doesn’t hold rights. But what remains is pure comic gold.