The best Herbert Lom’s comedy movies on Apple iTunes

Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom

12/09/1917- 27/09/2012
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The Return of the Pink Panther

The Return of the Pink Panther
7/10
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/12/1976
  • Character: Dreyfus
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/12/1955
  • Character: Louis, alias 'Mr. Harvey'
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark
7.4/10
Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate. A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.

Gambit

Gambit
7/10
An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer's help to pull off the perfect heist.

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther
6.6/10
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 03/12/1982
  • Character: Chef Inspektor Charles Dreyfus
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

Hopscotch

Hopscotch
7.1/10
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.

Son of the Pink Panther

Son of the Pink Panther
3.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 27/08/1993
  • Character: Police Commisioner Charles Dreyfus
The eighth and last of the Pink Panther series. The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

Mr. Topaze

Mr. Topaze
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/04/1961
  • Character: Castel Benac
Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.

Curse of the Pink Panther

Curse of the Pink Panther
4.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 12/08/1983
  • Character: Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.

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