Screenplay: Blake Edwards

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Blake Edwards. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Party

1968 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Claudine Longet · Marge Champion · J. Edward McKinley

Synopsis Sellers stars as a would-be actor from India (let them try to get away with that today) who is a walking disaster area. After ruining a day's shooting as an extra on a film, he finds himself unintentionally invited to...

7.6

42K votes

7.6

42K votes

Victor Victoria

1982 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Julie Andrews · James Garner · Robert Preston · Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in...

7.1

8K votes

7.1

8K votes

The Pink Panther (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Hawley Pratt · Friz Freleng

Synopsis TV Series (1964-1977). In 1963, movie director Blake Edwards asked David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng (who had just opened their cartoon studio, DePatie-Freleng) to design a character for the opening titles of his movie, "The Pink Panther". Of many...

7.1

36K votes

7.1

36K votes

The Pink Panther

1963 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · David Niven · Capucine · Robert Wagner

Synopsis When famous The Pink Panther diamond goes missing the bumbling Inspector Clouseau goes on the trail of notorious jewel thief The Phantom, but looks everywhere except in the right place!

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7.0

10K votes

7.0

10K votes

The Great Race

1965 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Tony Curtis · Jack Lemmon · Natalie Wood · Peter Falk

Synopsis Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired...

6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

Drive a Crooked Road

1954 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Mickey Rooney · Dianne Foster · Kevin McCarthy · Jack Kelly

Synopsis Eddie Shannon is an undersized, sports-car mechanic who dreams of racing an expensive car in a European meet. He meets and falls in love with Barbara Mathews, and thinks she loves him. She introduces him to Steve Norris and Harold...

6.9

135 votes

6.9

135 votes

The Notorious Landlady

1962 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

6.6

743 votes

6.6

743 votes

A Shot in the Dark

1964 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Elke Sommer · Herbert Lom · George Sanders

Synopsis The second in the series of films involving bumbling French inspector Jacques Clouseau has the the inept detective trying to clear a maid accused of murdering her lover--even though all clues point to her. -Peter Sellers returns as the world's...

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6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

Wild Rovers

1971 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

6.4

891 votes

6.4

891 votes

My Sister Eileen

1955 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Janet Leigh · Jack Lemmon · Betty Garrett · Bob Fosse

Synopsis Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment (such as it is!), but fame and fortune are a lot more...

6.4

366 votes

6.4

366 votes

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

1976 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Herbert Lom · Lesley-Anne Down · Burt Kwouk

Synopsis In the fourth film of the long-running series, bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers) long-suffering boss, Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), finally has been driven to a nervous breakdown by the detective and has been hospitalized in an asylum. Meanwhile, the hapless...

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6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

The Return of the Pink Panther

1975 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Christopher Plummer · Catherine Schell · Herbert Lom

Synopsis RETURN is the third installment in the popular Pink Panther series and a reunion for director Blake Edwards and comedian Peter Sellers, who had not made a Panther film since A SHOT IN THE DARK a decade earlier. This time...

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6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

Mister Cory

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Tony Curtis · Martha Hyer · Charles Bickford · Kathryn Grant

Synopsis Cory, an ambitious Chicago slum kid with a knack for gambling, gets a busboy job at a posh Wisconsin resort...

6.2

113 votes

6.2

113 votes

The Tamarind Seed

1974 · Movie · 119 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Julie Andrews · Omar Sharif · Anthony Quayle · Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.

6.0

291 votes

6.0

291 votes

Operation Mad Ball

1957 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Jack Lemmon · Ernie Kovacs · Kathryn Grant · Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis Private Hogan must raise his ability to scheme and plot to a new level to put on a madcap dance to celebrate the closing of an Army surgical hospital in post WWII France while evading the stickler-for-details Captain Locke -...

6.0

56 votes

6.0

56 votes

Peter Gunn (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal · Lamont Johnson · Blake Edwards · David Orrick McDearmon

Cast Craig Stevens · Herschel Bernardi · Lola Albright · Byron Kane

Synopsis The cases of a stylishly cool private detective.

6.0

32 votes

6.0

32 votes

The Pink Panther (TV Series)

1993 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Charles Grosvenor · Byron Vaughns · Paul Sabella

Synopsis The cartoon follows the adventures of an actual pink panther with the occasional cartoon starring Inspector Clouseau.

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

Darling Lili

1970 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Julie Andrews · Rock Hudson · Jeremy Kemp · Lance Percival

Synopsis In 1970, director Blake Edwards and his actress-wife Julie Andrews joined forces for a musical based on the life of legendary double agent Mata Hari that became one of the most infamous flops in cinematic history. In addition to exceeding...

5.9

292 votes

5.9

292 votes

That's Life!

1986 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Jack Lemmon · Julie Andrews · Sally Kellerman · Robert Loggia

Synopsis Harvey and Gillian Fairchild face a very difficult weekend. Harvey, celebrating his 60th birthday, is stressed and depressed. Gillian is awaiting the results of a throat biopsy. Their lives are further complicated by their three grown children, a ditsy neighbor,...

5.7

261 votes

5.7

261 votes