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United Artists
The Pink Panther (Original) Collection
Why are the world's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is.
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.
CinemaSerf
Apr 22, 2024 · via TMDB
Imagine poor old "Dreyfus" (Herbert Lom). Once the proud chief detective of the Sûreté now reduced to trying to convince his psychiatrist that he is over his kill-Clouseau phase and is ready to resume his place in society. Guess who turns up to wish him well at his hearing in front of the sanity commission...? Oops! Back to square one. Scoot on a bit and "Dreyfus" is now so obsessed with revenge that he has assembled a gathering of criminal minds that would make "Spectre" looks like the boy scouts. He issues the world with an ultimatum. Deliver "Clouseau" or face the imminent destruction of the globe! Meantime, the hapless sleuth (Peter Sellers) has decided that he will put himself on the trail of his nemesis whilst trying to avoid some of the twenty-odd assassins out to get him and his own, trained-to-kill manservant "Cato" (Burt Kwouk). Lom is on great form here as the maniacal character bent on getting his pound of flesh, and as Sellers wanders about leaving comedic mayhem in his path, I was with very much with him! By now, this character is established and we know what to expect with the silly accent, slapstick antics and the incompetent bumblings gently entertaining as the soundtrack and the narrative takes a pop at a few other stories (and even director Blake Edwards' wife) as it moves along. I would have preferred a different conclusion, but I suppose that was never to be in a world where a bum actually explodes and a game of croquet can lead to concussion and near drowning. It's almost as good as the first film, and shows an ability amongst everyone here to be funny without over complicating things.
Charles Dance
Feb 14, 2017 · via TMDB
**The best of the Panther films** As much James Bond film as Pink Panther movie, this 1976 entry begins with _former_ Chief Inspector Dreyfus, (Herbert Lom) about to be released from the lunatic asylum and all is going well - until _Chief Inspector_ Clouseau turns up... Within minutes, the newly sane _former_ police commissioner Dreyfus is reduced to a _gibbering maniac_ - hell bent on destroying the world unless the authorities deliver Clouseau to him. The following 90 minutes consist of an inflatable Quasimodo hovering above Notre Dame cathedral, an absurd fight with an 'oriental lunatic', assassin wars at the Oktoberfest, a dentist with a plastic nose and the destruction of the United Nations building. Sellers and director Blake Edwards did everything right here. With a script this insane - they couldn't really go wrong.
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Peter Sellers
Chief Inspector Clouseau
Herbert Lom
Dreyfus
Leonard Rossiter
Quinlan
Colin Blakely
Drummond
Graham Stark
Hotel Clerk
Byron Kane
Secretary of State
Richard Vernon
Fassbender
Briony McRoberts
Margo Fassbender
Burt Kwouk
Cato
André Maranne
Francois
Vanda Godsell
Mrs. Leverlilly
Geoffrey Bayldon
Dr. Duval
Norman Mitchell
Mr. Bullock
Michael Robbins
Jarvis
Lesley-Anne Down
Olga
Dudley Sutton
McClaren
Robert Beatty
Admiral
Bob Sherman
CIA Agent
Phil Brown
Virginia Senator
Jerry Stovin
Aide
Paul Maxwell
CIA Director
Harold Berens
Hotel Clerk
Deep Roy
Italian Assassin
Anthony Chinn
Chinese Assassin
Kevin Scott
M.C.
John Clive
Chuck
Chris Langham
Police Driver
James Warrior
Police Constable
Gordon Rollings
Inmate
Damaris Hayman
Fiona
Patrick Jordan
Detective
John Sullivan
Tournier
Terry Yorke
Cairo Fred
Herb Tanney
Norwegian Assassin
Fred Haggerty
Munich Hotel Doorman
Julie Andrews
Ainsley Jarvis (singing voice) (uncredited)
Omar Sharif
Egyptian Assassin (uncredited)
Alan Harris
Technician (uncredited)
Albert Blackshaw
Construction Manager
Richard Williams
Opening Title Sequence
John Sullivan
Stunt Coordinator
Blake Edwards
Director
Blake Edwards
Producer
Henry Mancini
Conductor
Henry Mancini
Original Music Composer
Henry Mancini
Songs
Don Black
Lyricist
Blake Edwards
Screenplay
Dec 15, 1976
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