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Classic Film: The Pink Panther at Community Center

The Cranford Library is hosting Classic Film, The Pink Panther, 1963.  This event will be held at the Cranford Community Center, 220 Walnut Avenue, at 7pm.

In the first in a series of detective comedies from director Blake Edwards stars Peter Sellers as bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the mishap-prone snoop.  David Niven stars as Sir Charles Litton, a suave jewel thief known as "The Phantom."  Vacationing in a deluxe Alpine resort, Litton's real purpose is to purloin the Pink Panther, a gem of enormous worth owned by a princess (Claudia Cardinale).  On his trail for years, Inspector Clouseau keeps losing his quarry, perhaps because his wife Simone (Capucine) is Litton's lover and alerts him every time her husband draws near.  The Pink Panther made Sellers and his Clouseau act so popular that the character starred in a series of farcical sequels.  This film is 113 minutes and rated PG and free.  All are welcome.

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