The Pink Panther Strikes Again Dvd the Pink Panther Strikes Again Poster
| The Pink Panther Strikes Again | |
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| Directed by | 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 by | Alan Jones |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
| Product | Amjo Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Countries | United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland U.s. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $vi million |
| Box office | $75 meg[1] |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again is a 1976 comedy motion picture. The fifth flick in The Pink Panther serial, its plot picks up three years later on 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 Main Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers) unrelenting ineptitude in the previous films. A typically disastrous visit from Clouseau on the twenty-four hour period of his release prompts a swift relapse which cancels Dreyfus's scheduled discharge, but he before long escapes anyway, and organizes an elaborate criminal plot to threaten the countries of the world with annihilation by a massive light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation weapon if they practice not assassinate Clouseau for him.
Unused footage from the motion-picture show was later included in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), afterwards Sellers' death.
Plot [edit]
Afterwards three years in a psychiatric hospital, former Main Inspector of the Sûreté Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), has recovered from his obsession to impale Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is about to exist released; Clouseau, who has since replaced Dreyfus as Chief Inspector, arrivies unannounced to speak on behalf of his former boss, and within minutes drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus later escapes from the hospital and one time once again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (past periodic system) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The flop destroys Clouseau's flat and injures Cato, merely Clouseau himself is unharmed, beingness lifted from the room past an inflatable hunchback disguise. Deciding that a more elaborate plan 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 girl's liberty.
Clouseau travels to the UK to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, where he wrecks their family home and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender's cross-dressing butler. Although Jarvis is after killed by 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'south invention, disintegrates the United Nations headquarters in New York City and blackmails the leaders of the globe, including the President of the United States and his Secretarial assistant of State (based on Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau. However, many of the nations instruct their operatives to impale Clouseau to gain Dreyfus'south favor and possibly the Doomsday Car. As a result of their orders and Clouseau'due south obliviousness, all of the other assassins finish up killing 1 another until only the agents of Arab republic 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 Downward), who makes the same mistake. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed by Olga's affections but learns from her Dreyfus's 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 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 up exhilarant both of them with nitrous oxide. When 'the dentist' mistakenly pulls the incorrect tooth, Dreyfus immediately figures out it is Clouseau in disguise. Clouseau escapes, and a vengeful and now totally insane Dreyfus prepares to use the machine to destroy England. Clouseau, eluding Dreyfus'due south henchmen, unwittingly foils Dreyfus's plans when a medieval catapult exterior the castle launches him on superlative of the doomsday machine, causing it to malfunction and burn on Dreyfus and the castle itself. As the remaining henchmen, Fassbender and his daughter, and eventually Clouseau himself escape the dissolving castle, Dreyfus plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on the castle's pipe 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'south apparent disability to remove his dress, and then by Cato's latest surprise attack, which causes all three to be hurled into the river Seine when the reclining bed snaps back upright and crashes through the wall. Immediately thereafter, a cartoon epitome 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 precipitous-toothed, open oral cavity (a reference to the so-recent picture show Jaws, made further obvious by the thematic music). The picture ends equally the blithe Clouseau chases the Pink Panther up the Seine every bit the credits roll.
Bandage [edit]
- Peter Sellers as Main Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Herbert Lom as One-time Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus
- Leonard Rossiter equally Superintendent Quinlan
- Lesley-Anne Down equally Olga Bariosova
- Colin Blakely every bit Inspector Alec Drummond
- Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong
- André Maranne every bit François
- Michael Robbins as Ainsley Jarvis
- Richard Vernon as Professor Hugo Fassbender
- Briony McRoberts as Margo Fassbender
- Dick Crockett as the President of the U.s.a. (Gerald Ford)
- Byron Kane equally the US Secretary of Country (Henry Kissinger)
- Paul Maxwell as CIA Managing director
- Gordon Rollings every bit Inmate
- Dudley Sutton equally Inspector Mclaren
- John Clive as Chuck
- Damaris Hayman as Fiona
- Deep Roy as Atomic Assassinator
Cast notes [edit]
- Owing to Peter Sellers's heart condition, whenever possible he would accept his stunt double Joe Dunne stand in for him. Because of the ofttimes physical nature of the comedy, this would occur quite frequently.
- Julie Andrews provided the singing vocalisation for the female-impersonator "Ainsley Jarvis".[2] The scene in the nightclub when Jarvis sings is in many ways like to scenes in Edwards's later film Victor Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays a woman pretending to be a man who is a female impersonator.
- Graham Stark, a longtime friend of Sellers, once again made an advent in the series, albeit in a pocket-size role as the desk clerk of a modest German hotel. Since his role as Hercule LaJoy in A Shot in the Night, he has appeared in small roles in every Pinkish Panther sequel except Inspector Clouseau, in which Sellers did not play Clouseau.
- Scenes featuring Harvey Korman as Professor Auguste Balls and Marne Maitland equally Deputy Commissioner Lasorde were deleted from the film, but were later seen in total in Trail of the Pink Panther in 1982. Graham Stark would assume the office of Professor Balls 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 to Me".
- The role of Olga Bariosova was originally played by Maud Adams, who was replaced after filming a few scenes. Blake Edwards and then intended to cast Nicola Pagett after seeing her in Upstairs, Downstairs just instead ended upward casting Pagett's castmate Lesley-Anne Downward in the role.
- Though the grapheme of the President of the United States (portrayed past Dick Crockett) is unnamed in the film, information technology is obviously based on then current US President Gerald Ford; Crockett bore more than a passing resemblance to the President and Ford's somewhat exaggerated reputation for clumsiness as depicted in the motion-picture show was a national joke at the fourth dimension. The President's unnamed somber Secretarial assistant of State (portrayed by Byron Kane) is obviously based on then electric current Secretary Henry Kissinger.
- Blake Edwards fabricated a cameo appearance in the background of the nightclub scene.
Product [edit]
The Pink Panther Strikes Once more was rushed into production attributable to the success of The Return of the Pink Panther.[iii] Blake Edwards had adapted one of two scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pink Panther" TV series equally the basis for that motion-picture show, and he adjusted the other as the starting point for Strikes Again. As a result, it is the simply Pink Panther sequel which has a storyline (Dreyfus in the insane asylum) that explicitly follows from the previous motion picture. Oddly, the plot has nothing to practise with the famous "Pink Panther diamond" of previous films, merely comes off more like a parody of James Bond movies.
The moving-picture show was in production from December 1975 to September 1976, with primary photography taking place between February and June 1976.[4] The strained human relationship betwixt Sellers and Blake Edwards had further deteriorated by the fourth dimension production of Strikes Again was underway. Sellers was ailing both mentally and physically, and Edwards afterward commented on the actor's mental state during product of the movie: "If yous went to an asylum and you described the first inmate you saw, that's what Peter had become. He was certifiable."[3]
The original cut of the film ran for around 180 minutes, simply was drastically trimmed down to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Edwards originally conceived Strikes Again as an ballsy, zany chase picture, similar to Edwards' earlier The Groovy Race, but UA vetoed this long version and the picture show was edited down to a more conventional length. Some of the excised footage was subsequently used in Trail of the Pinkish Panther. Strikes Again was marketed with the tagline Why are the world's chief assassins afterward Inspector Clouseau? Why non? Everybody else is. Like its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the film was a box office success.
During the film'south title sequence, at that place are references to television'due south Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Batman, likewise the films King Kong, The Sound of Music (which starred Blake Edwards'south wife, Julie Andrews), Dracula A.D. 1972, Singin' in the Rain, Steamboat Bill, Jr. and Sweetness Clemency, putting the Pinkish Panther character and the blithe 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 use of laughing gas and pulling the incorrect tooth 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 endmost sequences for the second and final fourth dimension; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would return on the next moving-picture show, merely with decidedly Williamesque influences.
Sellers was unhappy with the final cut of the film and publicly criticized Blake Edwards for misusing his talents. Their tense relationship is noted in the adjacent Pink Panther pic'due south opening credits (Revenge of the Pink Panther) list it equally a "Sellers-Edwards" production.
French comic volume writer René Goscinny of Asterix fame was reportedly trying to sue Blake Edwards for plagiarism at the time of his death in 1977 after noticing strong similarities to a script titled "Le Maître du Monde" (The Main 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 average score of seven.twenty/10.[7]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a one-half stars out of four and wrote, "If I'k less than totally enthusiastic nigh The Pink Panther Strikes Again, peradventure it was considering I've been over this ground with Clouseau many times before," stating that a fourth dimension would have to come "when inspiration gives way to habit, and I think the Pink Panther series is just about at that indicate. That's non to say this picture isn't funny—it has moments every bit good as anything Sellers and Edwards have ever done—but that it's fourth dimension for them to move on. They worked together once on the funniest movie either one has e'er done, The Party. At present it'south time to attempt something new once again."[8]
Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the characters of Clouseau and Dreyfus "were made for each other," and farther stated, "I'm not sure why Mr. Sellers and Mr. Lom are such a hilarious team, though it may be considering each is a fine comic actor with a special talent for portraying the sort of all-consuming, ballsy cocky-absorption that makes slapstick farce initially acceptable—instead of alarming—and finally then funny." Canby besides enjoyed Clouseau's French emphasis, and wrote, "Both Mr. Sellers and Mr. Edwards delight in old gags, and office of the joy of The Pink Panther Strikes Over again is watching the way they spin out what is essentially a single routine".[9]
The film earned theatrical rentals of $19.5 million in the United States and Canada[10] from a gross of $33.8 million.[11] Internationally, it earned rentals of $10.5 million for a worldwide total of $30 million.[ten] By March 1978, the film had grossed $75 million worldwide and was hoping to earn another $8 1000000 past the end of the year.[1]
Awards [edit]
- The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received a 1977 Writers Guild of America Award for "All-time Comedy Adjusted from Another Medium". The film likewise won a 1978 Evening Standard British Motion picture Award for "All-time Comedy".
- "Come up to Me", written by Henry Mancini (music) and Don Black (lyrics), received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Vocal" at the 49th Academy Awards.
- The film was nominated for a 1977 Gilded Globe Award for "All-time Motion Picture", and Peter Sellers was nominated for "Best Motility Picture Actor – Musical/Comedy".[12]
- American Moving picture Plant Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated[xiii]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- "Does your dog seize with teeth?" – Nominated[14]
Play Accommodation [edit]
The film was adapted into a play by William Gleason. Nearly events in the film occur though the locations sometimes are changed. Scene changes are done by women wearing pink panther costumes. The play currently can be 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 Information
- ^ 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 (20 Dec 1976). "The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again Review (1976)". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (16 December 1976). "Pink Panther Team Unflappable In Fourth High-Spirited Antic". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ a b "UA Film Rental Highlights of 1977". Diversity. 11 Jan 1978. p. 3.
- ^ "The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once more, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 Jan 2012.
- ^ IMDB Awards
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs Nominees
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Motion-picture show Quotes Nominees
- ^ "The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again". Dramatic Publishing . Retrieved 9 Apr 2022.
External links [edit]
- The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again at IMDb
- The Pink Panther Strikes Once more at the TCM Movie Database
- The Pink Panther Strikes Over again at AllMovie
- The Pink Panther Strikes Over again at the American Film Institute Catalog
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