The Thomas Crown Affair--Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway star in this 1968 classic. In the opening scene, Thomas Crown (McQueen) masterminds a $2.6 million bank robbery of a Boston area bank. Director Norman Jewison skillfully uses split screens and bright light to build the drama for heist. But, the action at the outset is replaced by a well-planned investigation. An insurance investigator (Faye Dunaway), delves into the motives of the robber, eventually leading her to Crown.

The course of the movie examines the interaction between Dunaway and McQueen, a master-mind criminal and an intelligent investigator, as their relationship turns into an affair. Unlike many more recent movies, the drama does not depend solely on the action and the sex, but instead, delves into the psyche of the pursuer and the pursued.

The Revenge of the Pink Panther--Clouseau is at it again. This is probably the second funniest of the Pink Panther movies, but the most intelligent of the series. But there are also moments of utter hilarity.

Clouseau once again roams his familiar haunts--the dim, misty back alleys of Paris. The bumbling detective is presumed killed by a bomb ("boom" in Clouseau-speak) and spends the rest of the movie tracking his killers all the way to Hong Kong.

Peter Sellers' Inspector is one of the film world's classic comedic protagonists. Each place and each person who comes into contact with Clouseau becomes helplessly embroiled in the Inspector's mad, inside-out universe of erector-set winged cars, Disguises by Balls, and Cato's Asian Harem. Of course, Herbert Lom, as Clouseau's nemesis on the Paris police force, is unable to snap back from these trips into madness and spends most of the film locked in a padded room.

Director Blake Edwards is right in tune with human nature and its potential for being mocked. His camera captures the murky underside of Parisian middle-class existence as well as the maddening, busy life of Hong Kong's spaghetti-thin streets. As usual, Sellers is athletic and absolutely absorbing as Clouseau, and Herbert Lom is wholly nutty and pop-eyed as the mad chief of police.