Complete Cast of the Pink Panther Strikes Again
| 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 (Associate Producer) Animation: Richard Williams |
| Starring | Peter Sellers Herbert Lom Colin Blakely Leonard Rossiter Lesley-Anne Downward |
| Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
| Edited by | Alan Jones |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
| Production | Amjo Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Countries | United kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $half dozen million |
| Box office | $75 meg[1] |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again is a 1976 one-act film. The fifth picture show in The Pink Panther series, its plot picks up three years after The Return of the Pink Panther, with former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) about to be released from a psychiatric hospital after having finally been driven insane by new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers) unrelenting ineptitude in the previous films. A typically disastrous visit from Clouseau on the solar day of his release prompts a swift relapse which cancels Dreyfus's scheduled discharge, but he soon escapes anyway, and organizes an elaborate criminal plot to threaten the countries of the world with annihilation past a massive laser weapon if they exercise not assassinate Clouseau for him.
Unused footage from the moving-picture show was later included in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), after Sellers' decease.
Plot [edit]
Subsequently three 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 equally Chief Inspector, arrivies unannounced to speak on behalf of his former boss, and within minutes drives Dreyfus insane once again. Dreyfus after escapes from the hospital and once again tries to impale Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The bomb destroys Clouseau'due south apartment and injures Cato, but Clouseau himself is unharmed, being lifted from the room by an inflatable hunchback disguise. Deciding that a more elaborate plan is needed to eliminate Clouseau, Dreyfus enlists an army of career criminals to his crusade 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 render for his daughter's freedom.
Clouseau travels to the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, where he wrecks their family home and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender's cantankerous-dressing butler. Although Jarvis is later on killed past the kidnappers, to whom he had become a dangerous witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Munich, West Federal republic of germany. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbender's invention, disintegrates the United Nations headquarters in New York City and blackmails the leaders of the earth, including the President of the United States and his Secretary of State (based on Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau. Withal, many of the nations instruct their operatives to kill Clouseau to proceeds Dreyfus's favor and possibly the Doomsday Machine. As a result of their orders and Clouseau'south obliviousness, all of the other assassins end up killing i another until only the agents of Arab republic of egypt and Russia remain.
The Egyptian assassin (Omar Sharif) shoots i of Dreyfus' assassins, mistaking him for Clouseau, but is seduced by the Russian operative Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Down), who makes the same error. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed by Olga'due south affections but learns from her Dreyfus'southward location at a castle in Bavaria. Dreyfus is elated at the erroneous report of Clouseau's 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 High german dentist and finally gains entry to the castle (his earlier attempts at sneaking in the castle had been repeatedly foiled by his general ineptitude and the castle's 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 utilise 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 top 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 eventually Clouseau himself escape the dissolving castle, Dreyfus plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on the castle'southward pipe organ while he himself disintegrates, until he and the castle vanish into thin air.
Returning to Paris, Clouseau is finally reunited with Olga. Still, their tryst is interrupted first by Clouseau'southward apparent inability to remove his clothes, and so past Cato'south latest surprise assail, which causes all three to be hurled into the river Seine when the reclining bed snaps dorsum upright and crashes through the wall. Immediately thereafter, a drawing image of Clouseau emerges from the water, which has been tinted pinkish, and begins swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther character is waiting below him with a abrupt-toothed, open up mouth (a reference to the then-recent film Jaws, made further obvious by the thematic music). The film ends as the animated Clouseau chases the Pink Panther up the Seine as the credits ringlet.
Bandage [edit]
- Peter Sellers equally Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Herbert Lom as Former Master Inspector Charles Dreyfus
- Leonard Rossiter as Superintendent Quinlan
- Lesley-Anne Downwards as Olga Bariosova
- Colin Blakely as Inspector Alec Drummond
- Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong
- André Maranne equally François
- Michael Robbins as Ainsley Jarvis
- Richard Vernon as Professor Hugo Fassbender
- Briony McRoberts as Margo Fassbender
- Dick Crockett as the President of the United States (Gerald Ford)
- Byron Kane as the U.s. Secretary of Land (Henry Kissinger)
- Paul Maxwell as CIA Managing director
- Gordon Rollings as Inmate
- Dudley Sutton as Inspector Mclaren
- John Clive as Chuck
- Damaris Hayman as Fiona
- Deep Roy as Diminutive Assassinator
Bandage notes [edit]
- Owing to Peter Sellers's middle condition, whenever possible he would have his stunt double Joe Dunne stand in for him. Because of the often physical nature of the comedy, this would occur quite oftentimes.
- Julie Andrews provided the singing voice for the female person-impersonator "Ainsley Jarvis".[2] The scene in the nightclub when Jarvis sings is in many ways similar to scenes in Edwards's afterward film Victor Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays a adult female pretending to be a human who is a female impersonator.
- Graham Stark, a longtime friend of Sellers, once more made an appearance in the series, albeit in a small role as the desk clerk of a pocket-size German hotel. Since his role as Hercule LaJoy in A Shot in the Nighttime, he has appeared in small roles in every Pink Panther sequel except Inspector Clouseau, in which Sellers did not play Clouseau.
- Scenes featuring Harvey Korman as Professor Auguste Balls and Marne Maitland as Deputy Commissioner Lasorde were deleted from the film, but were later on seen in total in Trail of the Pink Panther in 1982. Graham Stark would assume the role of Professor Balls in the next motion-picture show, Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).
- Omar Sharif appeared, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassin.
- Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated song "Come to Me".
- The part of Olga Bariosova was originally played by Maud Adams, who was replaced later on filming a few scenes. Blake Edwards then intended to bandage Nicola Pagett after seeing her in Upstairs, Downstairs but instead concluded up casting Pagett's castmate Lesley-Anne Down in the role.
- Though the character of the President of the United States (portrayed by Dick Crockett) is unnamed in the motion-picture show, information technology is plainly based on and so current US President Gerald Ford; Crockett bore more a passing resemblance to the President and Ford'southward somewhat exaggerated reputation for clumsiness as depicted in the film was a national joke at the time. The President's unnamed somber Secretary of Country (portrayed by Byron Kane) is apparently based on then electric current Secretary Henry Kissinger.
- Blake Edwards made a cameo appearance in the background of the nightclub scene.
Production [edit]
The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again was rushed into production owing to the success of The Return of the Pink Panther.[three] Blake Edwards had adapted one of 2 scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pinkish Panther" Idiot box series as the basis for that film, and he adjusted the other as the starting betoken for Strikes Again. As a result, it is the simply Pink Panther sequel which has a storyline (Dreyfus in the insane aviary) that explicitly follows from the previous film. Oddly, the plot has aught to exercise with the famous "Pink Panther diamond" of previous films, simply comes off more like a parody of James Bond movies.
The movie was in production from December 1975 to September 1976, with principal photography taking place between Feb and June 1976.[4] The strained relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards had further deteriorated past the time production of Strikes Again was underway. Sellers was ailing both mentally and physically, and Edwards afterwards commented on the actor's mental state during production of the moving picture: "If you went to an asylum and you described the first inmate you lot saw, that'southward what Peter had become. He was certifiable."[3]
The original cut of the moving picture ran for effectually 180 minutes, simply was drastically trimmed downward to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Edwards originally conceived Strikes Again as an epic, zany chase moving picture, similar to Edwards' earlier The Not bad Race, just UA vetoed this long version and the film was edited down to a more conventional length. Some of the excised footage was after used in Trail of the Pinkish Panther. Strikes Again was marketed with the tagline Why are the world'due south chief assassins later Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is. Like its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the picture was a box part success.
During the film's title sequence, in that location are references to television's Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Batman, also the films King Kong, The Sound of Music (which starred Blake Edwards'due south married woman, Julie Andrews), Dracula A.D. 1972, Singin' in the Rain, Steamboat Bill, Jr. and Sweet Charity, putting the Pink Panther character and the animated persona of Inspector Clouseau into recognizable events from said movies. There is too a reference to Jaws in the ending credits sequence. The scene in which Clouseau impersonates a dentist and the apply of laughing gas and pulling the wrong molar are clearly inspired by Bob Hope in The Paleface (1948).[5]
Richard Williams (later of Roger Rabbit fame) supervised the animation of the opening and closing sequences for the second and final time; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would return on the adjacent film, but with decidedly Williamesque influences.
Sellers was unhappy with the concluding cut of the picture and publicly criticized Blake Edwards for misusing his talents. Their tense relationship is noted in the next Pink Panther movie's opening credits (Revenge of the Pink Panther) listing it as a "Sellers-Edwards" production.
French comic book author René Goscinny of Asterix fame was reportedly trying to sue Blake Edwards for plagiarism at the time of his death in 1977 after noticing potent similarities to a script titled "Le Maître du Monde" (The Master of the Globe) which he had sent Peter Sellers in 1975.[6]
Reception [edit]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an blessing rating of 76% based on 21 reviews, with an boilerplate score of 7.twenty/10.[7]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Lord's day-Times gave the movie two and a half stars out of four and wrote, "If I'm less than totally enthusiastic about The Pink Panther Strikes Over again, possibly it was considering I've been over this footing with Clouseau many times before," stating that a time would have to come "when inspiration gives way to addiction, and I retrieve the Pink Panther series is only about at that point. That'due south not to say this moving picture isn't funny—information technology has moments as good equally anything Sellers and Edwards have always done—but that it's time for them to move on. They worked together once on the funniest movie either one has always done, The Political party. Now it'south time to endeavor something new again."[viii]
Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the characters of Clouseau and Dreyfus "were fabricated for each other," and further stated, "I'm non sure why Mr. Sellers and Mr. Lom are such a hilarious squad, though it may exist because each is a fine comic actor with a special talent for portraying the sort of all-consuming, ballsy self-absorption that makes slapstick farce initially acceptable—instead of alarming—and finally so funny." Canby also enjoyed Clouseau's French accent, and wrote, "Both Mr. Sellers and Mr. Edwards please in old gags, and function of the joy of The Pink Panther Strikes Once again is watching the way they spin out what is essentially a single routine".[9]
The film earned theatrical rentals of $19.v one thousand thousand in the United States and Canada[x] from a gross of $33.eight million.[eleven] Internationally, information technology earned rentals of $ten.5 one thousand thousand for a worldwide total of $30 million.[10] By March 1978, the film had grossed $75 million worldwide and was hoping to earn some other $8 meg by the end of the year.[1]
Awards [edit]
- The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received a 1977 Writers Order of America Honour for "Best Comedy Adjusted from Some other Medium". The film also won a 1978 Evening Standard British Moving-picture show Award for "All-time Comedy".
- "Come to Me", written by Henry Mancini (music) and Don Blackness (lyrics), received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Vocal" at the 49th Academy Awards.
- The moving-picture show was nominated for a 1977 Gold Globe Laurels for "Best Move Pic", and Peter Sellers was nominated for "Best Motion Picture show Actor – Musical/Comedy".[12]
- American Film Institute Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated[13]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Flick Quotes:
- "Does your dog bite?" – Nominated[14]
Play Adaptation [edit]
The film was adjusted into a play by William Gleason. Most events in the film occur though the locations sometimes are inverse. Scene changes are done by women wearing pink panther costumes. The play currently tin be licensed through Dramatic Publishing.[15]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "New 'Pink Panther,' Set up For July Bow, Tops $seven-Mil in Blind Bids". Variety. 22 March 1978. p. 39.
- ^ Allmovie Cast
- ^ a b Thames, Stephanie "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (TCM article)
- ^ IMDB Business 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 19 March 2022
- ^ Ebert, Roger (20 December 1976). "The Pink Panther Strikes Again Review (1976)". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (xvi Dec 1976). "Pink Panther Team Unflappable In Fourth High-Spirited Caper". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ a b "UA Picture Rental Highlights of 1977". Diverseness. xi January 1978. p. 3.
- ^ "The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ^ IMDB Awards
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs Nominees
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Motion-picture show Quotes Nominees
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Once more". Dramatic Publishing . Retrieved 9 Apr 2022.
External links [edit]
- The Pink Panther Strikes Once more at IMDb
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at the TCM Movie Database
- The Pink Panther Strikes Once more at AllMovie
- The Pink Panther Strikes Once again at the American Pic Institute Itemize
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