The Pink Panther (Original) Collection

Peter Sellers

Herbert Lom

Leonard Rossiter

Colin Blakely

Graham Stark

Byron Kane

Dick Crockett

Richard Vernon

Briony McRoberts

Burt Kwouk

André Maranne

Vanda Godsell

Geoffrey Bayldon

Patsy Smart

Tony Sympson

Norman Mitchell

Michael Robbins

Lesley-Anne Down

Dudley Sutton

Murray Kash

Hal Galili

Robert Beatty

Bob Sherman

Phil Brown

Jerry Stovin

Paul Maxwell

George Leech

Harold Berens

Deep Roy

Anthony Chinn

Ivan Hunte

Josh Little

Joe Sampson

Gordon Hunte

Kevin Scott

John Clive

Chris Langham

James Warrior

Gordon Rollings

Joan Rhodes

Damaris Hayman

Patrick Jordan

Richard Bartlett

John Sullivan

Dinny Powell

Terry Richards

Bill Cummings

Terry Yorke

Terence Plummer

Peter Brace

Cyd Child

Eddie Stacey

Herb Tanney

Joe Powell

Fred Haggerty

Jack Cooper

Joanna Dickens

Priceless McCarthy

Terence Maidment

Julie Andrews

Omar Sharif

Harry Fielder

Alan Harris

Blake Edwards

Frank Waldman

Harry Waxman

Richard Williams

Henry Mancini

Alan Jones

Peter Mullins

John Siddall

Kit West

Ernest Day

Terry Marcel

Pamela Davies

Bryan Coates

James Liggat

Kevin O'Driscoll

Vicki Deason

Fred Carter

Tiny Nicholls

Bridget Sellers

Harry Frampton

Barbara Ritchie

Peter Sutton

Gerry Humphreys

Theodore Soderberg

Jim Roddan

Dave Jordan

Albert Blackshaw

Michael Browne

Derek Kavanagh

Don Black

Tony Adams

Comedy

Crime

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Amjo Productions

United Artists

United Kingdom

United States of America

Charles Dance

**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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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.