The Pink Panther Strikes Again Dvd the Pink Panther Strikes Again Poster
| The Pink Panther Strikes Again | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed past | Blake Edwards |
| Screenplay by | Frank Waldman Blake Edwards |
| Produced by | Blake Edwards Tony Adams (Acquaintance Producer) Animation: Richard Williams |
| Starring | Peter Sellers Herbert Lom Colin Blakely Leonard Rossiter Lesley-Anne Down |
| Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
| Edited past | Alan Jones |
| Music past | Henry Mancini |
| Production | Amjo Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Countries | Great britain United States |
| Language | English language |
| Budget | $half dozen million |
| Box part | $75 million[1] |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again is a 1976 comedy film. The 5th film in The Pink Panther series, its plot picks upwardly three years after The Return of the Pink Panther, with former Master Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) nearly to be released from a psychiatric hospital after having finally been driven insane past new Primary Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers) unrelenting ineptitude in the previous films. A typically disastrous visit from Clouseau on the day of his release prompts a swift relapse which cancels Dreyfus'south scheduled discharge, but he soon escapes anyway, and organizes an elaborate criminal plot to threaten the countries of the earth with annihilation past a massive light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation weapon if they do not assassinate Clouseau for him.
Unused footage from the film was later included in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), after Sellers' death.
Plot [edit]
After iii years in a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector of the Sûreté Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), has recovered from his obsession to kill Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is about to be released; Clouseau, who has since replaced Dreyfus as Main Inspector, arrivies unannounced to speak on behalf of his former boss, and within minutes drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus after escapes from the infirmary and once once more tries to kill Clouseau past planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic system) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The flop destroys Clouseau'due south flat and injures Cato, but Clouseau himself is unharmed, being lifted from the room by an inflatable hunchback disguise. Deciding that a more elaborate programme is needed to eliminate Clouseau, Dreyfus enlists an army of career criminals to his cause and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and the Professor's girl Margo (Briony McRoberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's freedom.
Clouseau travels to the Uk to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, where he wrecks their family dwelling house and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender'southward cross-dressing butler. Although Jarvis is later killed by the kidnappers, to whom he had get a unsafe witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Munich, West Germany. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbender's invention, disintegrates the United Nations headquarters in New York Urban center and blackmails the leaders of the earth, including the President of the United States and his Secretarial assistant of State (based on Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau. Yet, many of the nations instruct their operatives to impale Clouseau to gain Dreyfus's favor and maybe the Doomsday Machine. Every bit a result of their orders and Clouseau'southward obliviousness, all of the other assassins finish up killing i some other until only the agents of Egypt and Russia remain.
The Egyptian assassinator (Omar Sharif) shoots one of Dreyfus' assassins, mistaking him for Clouseau, but is seduced by the Russian operative Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Down), who makes the same mistake. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed by Olga's affections simply learns from her Dreyfus'southward location at a castle in Bavaria. Dreyfus is elated at the erroneous report of Clouseau'southward demise, but suffers from a painful toothache and sends for a dentist; when Clouseau hears a dentist is needed at the castle, he disguises himself as an elderly German dentist and finally gains entry to the castle (his earlier attempts at sneaking in the castle had been repeatedly foiled past his general ineptitude and the castle'south drawbridge). Unrecognized by Dreyfus, Clouseau ends upward intoxicating both of them with nitrous oxide. When 'the dentist' mistakenly pulls the wrong tooth, Dreyfus immediately figures out it is Clouseau in disguise. Clouseau escapes, and a vengeful and now totally insane Dreyfus prepares to utilize the machine to destroy England. Clouseau, eluding Dreyfus's henchmen, unwittingly foils Dreyfus's plans when a medieval catapult outside the castle launches him on summit of the doomsday machine, causing it to malfunction and burn on Dreyfus and the castle itself. As the remaining henchmen, Fassbender and his girl, and somewhen Clouseau himself escape the dissolving castle, Dreyfus plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on the castle'south piping organ while he himself disintegrates, until he and the castle vanish into thin air.
Returning to Paris, Clouseau is finally reunited with Olga. However, their tryst is interrupted first by Clouseau'due south apparent inability to remove his clothes, and so past Cato'southward latest surprise assault, which causes all iii to exist hurled into the river Seine when the reclining bed snaps back upright and crashes through the wall. Immediately thereafter, a cartoon image of Clouseau emerges from the water, which has been tinted pink, and begins swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther character is waiting below him with a sharp-toothed, open rima oris (a reference to the so-recent film Jaws, made further obvious past the thematic music). The movie ends as the blithe Clouseau chases the Pink Panther up the Seine as the credits roll.
Cast [edit]
- Peter Sellers equally Principal Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Herbert Lom as Former Main Inspector Charles Dreyfus
- Leonard Rossiter every bit Superintendent Quinlan
- Lesley-Anne Downwardly every bit Olga Bariosova
- Colin Blakely as Inspector Alec Drummond
- Burt Kwouk every bit Cato Fong
- André Maranne equally François
- Michael Robbins as Ainsley Jarvis
- Richard Vernon every bit Professor Hugo Fassbender
- Briony McRoberts as Margo Fassbender
- Dick Crockett as the President of the United States (Gerald Ford)
- Byron Kane as the United states Secretarial assistant of State (Henry Kissinger)
- Paul Maxwell as CIA Manager
- Gordon Rollings as Inmate
- Dudley Sutton as Inspector Mclaren
- John Clive as Chuck
- Damaris Hayman as Fiona
- Deep Roy as Atomic Assassin
Cast notes [edit]
- Owing to Peter Sellers's center condition, whenever possible he would have his stunt double Joe Dunne stand in for him. Considering of the often physical nature of the one-act, this would occur quite frequently.
- Julie Andrews provided the singing voice for the female-impersonator "Ainsley Jarvis".[2] The scene in the nightclub when Jarvis sings is in many ways similar to scenes in Edwards'due south later film Victor Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays a woman pretending to exist a human who is a female impersonator.
- Graham Stark, a longtime friend of Sellers, once again made an appearance in the series, admitting in a small role as the desk clerk of a pocket-size German hotel. Since his office as Hercule LaJoy in A Shot in the Dark, he has appeared in small-scale roles in every Pink Panther sequel except Inspector Clouseau, in which Sellers did not play Clouseau.
- Scenes featuring Harvey Korman as Professor Auguste Assurance and Marne Maitland every bit Deputy Commissioner Lasorde were deleted from the film, but were later seen in full in Trail of the Pink Panther in 1982. Graham Stark would assume the role of Professor Assurance in the next film, Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).
- Omar Sharif appeared, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassinator.
- Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated song "Come up to Me".
- The role of Olga Bariosova was originally played by Maud Adams, who was replaced after filming a few scenes. Blake Edwards then intended to cast Nicola Pagett after seeing her in Upstairs, Downstairs but instead ended up casting Pagett's castmate Lesley-Anne Down in the role.
- Though the character of the President of the U.s.a. (portrayed past Dick Crockett) is unnamed in the film, it is plain based on and so current US President Gerald Ford; Crockett diameter more than a passing resemblance to the President and Ford'southward somewhat exaggerated reputation for awkwardness equally depicted in the motion picture was a national joke at the fourth dimension. The President'southward unnamed somber Secretarial assistant of Country (portrayed by Byron Kane) is obviously based on so current Secretary Henry Kissinger.
- Blake Edwards made a cameo advent in the background of the nightclub scene.
Production [edit]
The Pink Panther Strikes Again was rushed into product owing to the success of The Return of the Pink Panther.[3] Blake Edwards had adjusted one of two scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pink Panther" TV series equally the basis for that film, and he adapted the other equally the starting bespeak for Strikes Over again. As a result, it is the only Pink Panther sequel which has a storyline (Dreyfus in the insane aviary) that explicitly follows from the previous film. Oddly, the plot has nothing to do with the famous "Pink Panther diamond" of previous films, but comes off more similar a parody of James Bond movies.
The movie was in product from December 1975 to September 1976, with principal photography taking place between February and June 1976.[4] The strained relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards had further deteriorated past the time product of Strikes Again was underway. Sellers was ailing both mentally and physically, and Edwards later commented on the actor's mental country during product of the movie: "If you went to an asylum and you lot described the first inmate you saw, that's what Peter had become. He was certifiable."[3]
The original cut of the picture ran for effectually 180 minutes, but was drastically trimmed downwardly to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Edwards originally conceived Strikes Again as an epic, zany chase moving picture, similar to Edwards' earlier The Great Race, simply UA vetoed this long version and the film was edited down to a more conventional length. Some of the excised footage was later on used in Trail of the Pinkish Panther. Strikes Once again was marketed with the tagline Why are the world's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is. Like its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the motion picture was a box office success.
During the picture show's title sequence, there are references to goggle box's Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Batman, also the films King Kong, The Sound of Music (which starred Blake Edwards'southward married woman, Julie Andrews), Dracula A.D. 1972, Singin' in the Pelting, Steamboat Beak, Jr. and Sweet Charity, putting the Pink Panther character and the animated persona of Inspector Clouseau into recognizable events from said movies. There is also a reference to Jaws in the catastrophe credits sequence. The scene in which Clouseau impersonates a dentist and the use of laughing gas and pulling the wrong molar are clearly inspired by Bob Promise in The Paleface (1948).[5]
Richard Williams (later of Roger Rabbit fame) supervised the blitheness of the opening and closing sequences for the second and final time; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would return on the side by side pic, but with decidedly Williamesque influences.
Sellers was unhappy with the last cutting of the motion picture and publicly criticized Blake Edwards for misusing his talents. Their tense relationship is noted in the next Pink Panther motion-picture show's opening credits (Revenge of the Pink Panther) listing it equally a "Sellers-Edwards" production.
French comic book writer René Goscinny of Asterix fame was reportedly trying to sue Blake Edwards for plagiarism at the time of his death in 1977 subsequently noticing strong similarities to a script titled "Le Maître du Monde" (The Master of the World) which he had sent Peter Sellers in 1975.[6]
Reception [edit]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 76% based on 21 reviews, with an boilerplate score of 7.xx/ten.[7]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the moving picture two and a half stars out of 4 and wrote, "If I'm less than totally enthusiastic about The Pinkish Panther Strikes Over again, peradventure information technology was because I've been over this ground with Clouseau many times before," stating that a time would have to come up "when inspiration gives way to addiction, and I think the Pink Panther series is only about at that bespeak. That'south not to say this pic isn't funny—it has moments as practiced as anything Sellers and Edwards take ever done—but that it's fourth dimension for them to move on. They worked together once on the funniest movie either one has ever done, The Party. Now information technology's time to try something new again."[8]
Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the characters of Clouseau and Dreyfus "were made for each other," and further stated, "I'thousand non sure why Mr. Sellers and Mr. Lom are such a hilarious squad, though it may be considering each is a fine comic histrion with a special talent for portraying the sort of all-consuming, epic self-absorption that makes slapstick farce initially acceptable—instead of alarming—and finally and then funny." Canby likewise enjoyed Clouseau's French accent, and wrote, "Both Mr. Sellers and Mr. Edwards delight in erstwhile gags, and office of the joy of The Pink Panther Strikes Again is watching the way they spin out what is essentially a unmarried routine".[9]
The film earned theatrical rentals of $nineteen.5 million in the U.s. and Canada[x] from a gross of $33.8 million.[xi] Internationally, it earned rentals of $10.5 meg for a worldwide full of $30 million.[10] By March 1978, the film had grossed $75 million worldwide and was hoping to earn some other $8 million past the end of the year.[one]
Awards [edit]
- The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received a 1977 Writers Society of America Award for "Best One-act Adjusted from Another Medium". The film as well won a 1978 Evening Standard British Motion picture Award for "All-time Comedy".
- "Come to Me", written past Henry Mancini (music) and Don Black (lyrics), received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Song" at the 49th Academy Awards.
- The film was nominated for a 1977 Golden Globe Award for "Best Motion Picture", and Peter Sellers was nominated for "Best Motion Picture Histrion – Musical/Comedy".[12]
- American Motion picture Plant Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated[13]
- AFI'south 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- "Does your dog bite?" – Nominated[14]
Play Adaptation [edit]
The motion picture was adapted into a play past William Gleason. Most events in the film occur though the locations sometimes are changed. Scene changes are done past women wearing pinkish panther costumes. The play currently can exist licensed through Dramatic Publishing.[fifteen]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "New 'Pinkish Panther,' Set For July Bow, Tops $7-Mil in Blind Bids". Variety. 22 March 1978. p. 39.
- ^ Allmovie Bandage
- ^ a b Thames, Stephanie "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (TCM article)
- ^ IMDB Business concern Data
- ^ Starks, Michael (October 1982). Cocaine fiends and Reefer madness: an illustrated history of drugs in the movies. Cornwall Books. p. 190. ISBN978-0-8453-4504-7.
- ^ (in French) Pascal Ory, Goscinny (1926–wall): la Liberté d'en rire, Paris: Perrin, 2007, ISBN 978-2-262-02506-9, p. 221.
- ^ The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved nineteen March 2022
- ^ Ebert, Roger (twenty December 1976). "The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once again Review (1976)". Chicago Dominicus-Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (sixteen December 1976). "Pink Panther Squad Unflappable In Fourth Loftier-Spirited Antic". The New York Times . Retrieved two June 2017.
- ^ a b "UA Film Rental Highlights of 1977". Variety. 11 January 1978. p. three.
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Box Office Data". Box Role Mojo. Retrieved 23 Jan 2012.
- ^ IMDB Awards
- ^ AFI'due south 100 Years...100 Laughs Nominees
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominees
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again". Dramatic Publishing . Retrieved 9 Apr 2022.
External links [edit]
- The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once more at IMDb
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at the TCM Movie Database
- The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once again at AllMovie
- The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again at the American Motion-picture show Plant Catalog
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