Pink Panther Strikes Again 3nding Scene
| The Pink Panther Strikes Once again | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Blake Edwards |
| Screenplay by | Frank Waldman Blake Edwards |
| Produced past | Blake Edwards Tony Adams (Associate Producer) Animation: Richard Williams |
| Starring | Peter Sellers Herbert Lom Colin Blakely Leonard Rossiter Lesley-Anne Down |
| Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
| Edited past | Alan Jones |
| Music by | 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 | $6 million |
| Box function | $75 million[1] |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again is a 1976 comedy picture. The fifth moving-picture show in The Pinkish Panther series, its plot picks up three years after The Render of the Pinkish Panther, with sometime Master Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) near to be released from a psychiatric hospital later on having finally been driven insane by new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau'due south (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 belch, but he soon escapes anyhow, and organizes an elaborate criminal plot to threaten the countries of the world with anything by a massive laser weapon if they do non assassinate Clouseau for him.
Unused footage from the moving picture was afterwards included in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), after Sellers' expiry.
Plot [edit]
Later three years in a psychiatric hospital, former Principal Inspector of the Sûreté Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), has recovered from his obsession to kill Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is nearly to be released; Clouseau, who has since replaced Dreyfus as Primary Inspector, arrivies unannounced to speak on behalf of his erstwhile boss, and within minutes drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus afterward escapes from the hospital and in one case once more tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic organization) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The bomb destroys Clouseau's flat 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 cause and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and the Professor's daughter Margo (Briony McRoberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's freedom.
Clouseau travels to the Britain to investigate Fassbender'south disappearance, where he wrecks their family unit home and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender'southward cantankerous-dressing butler. Although Jarvis is after killed by the kidnappers, to whom he had get a dangerous witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Munich, West Frg. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbender's invention, disintegrates the United Nations headquarters in New York City and blackmails the leaders of the world, including the President of the U.s. and his Secretary of Land (based on Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau. However, many of the nations instruct their operatives to kill Clouseau to gain Dreyfus's favor and mayhap the Doomsday Automobile. As a result of their orders and Clouseau'southward obliviousness, all of the other assassins stop upwards killing one another until only the agents of Egypt and Russia remain.
The Egyptian assassin (Omar Sharif) shoots ane of Dreyfus' assassins, mistaking him for Clouseau, but is seduced by the Russian operative Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Down), who makes the aforementioned error. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed past 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, simply suffers from a painful toothache and sends for a dentist; when Clouseau hears a dentist is needed at the castle, he disguises himself equally 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 upwards 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 use the automobile to destroy England. Clouseau, eluding Dreyfus'south 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 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.
Returning to Paris, Clouseau is finally reunited with Olga. However, their tryst is interrupted first by Clouseau's apparent disability to remove his clothes, and and then by Cato'southward latest surprise assault, 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 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 mouth (a reference to the then-recent film Jaws, made farther obvious by the thematic music). The film ends as the blithe Clouseau chases the Pinkish Panther upwards the Seine as the credits roll.
Cast [edit]
- Peter Sellers as Principal Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Herbert Lom as Former Principal Inspector Charles Dreyfus
- Leonard Rossiter equally Superintendent Quinlan
- Lesley-Anne Down as Olga Bariosova
- Colin Blakely as Inspector Alec Drummond
- Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong
- André Maranne as François
- Michael Robbins equally Ainsley Jarvis
- Richard Vernon as Professor Hugo Fassbender
- Briony McRoberts equally Margo Fassbender
- Dick Crockett every bit the President of the United States (Gerald Ford)
- Byron Kane as the US Secretarial assistant of State (Henry Kissinger)
- Paul Maxwell as CIA Manager
- Gordon Rollings equally Inmate
- Dudley Sutton equally Inspector Mclaren
- John Clive as Chuck
- Damaris Hayman as Fiona
- Deep Roy as Diminutive Assassin
Cast notes [edit]
- Owing to Peter Sellers's eye status, whenever possible he would have his stunt double Joe Dunne stand in for him. Because of the often concrete 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 means like to scenes in Edwards's later movie Victor Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays a adult female pretending to be a man who is a female person impersonator.
- Graham Stark, a longtime friend of Sellers, once again made an advent in the series, albeit in a small function every bit the desk clerk of a small-scale German hotel. Since his role as Hercule LaJoy in A Shot in the Dark, he has appeared in pocket-sized 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 afterward seen in full in Trail of the Pinkish Panther in 1982. Graham Stark would presume the office of Professor Assurance in the side by side pic, Revenge of the Pinkish Panther (1978).
- Omar Sharif appeared, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassinator.
- Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated song "Come to Me".
- The function 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 later on seeing her in Upstairs, Downstairs just instead ended up casting Pagett'south castmate Lesley-Anne Downward in the office.
- Though the graphic symbol of the President of the U.s.a. (portrayed past Dick Crockett) is unnamed in the picture, it is plain based on then current United states of america President Gerald Ford; Crockett bore more than a passing resemblance to the President and Ford'due south 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 Country (portrayed by Byron Kane) is obviously based on then current Secretary Henry Kissinger.
- Blake Edwards made a cameo appearance in the background of the nightclub scene.
Product [edit]
The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again was rushed into production attributable to the success of The Render of the Pink Panther.[iii] Blake Edwards had adapted ane of 2 scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pink Panther" TV series as the footing for that motion picture, and he adapted the other every bit the starting indicate for Strikes Again. As a result, information technology is the just 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, merely comes off more similar a parody of James Bond movies.
The movie was in production from December 1975 to September 1976, with principal photography taking place between February and June 1976.[iv] The strained relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards had further deteriorated past the time product of Strikes Over again was underway. Sellers was ailing both mentally and physically, and Edwards afterward commented on the histrion'southward mental state during product of the movie: "If you lot went to an asylum and y'all described the beginning inmate you saw, that'south what Peter had become. He was certifiable."[3]
The original cutting of the film ran for effectually 180 minutes, but was drastically trimmed down to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Edwards originally conceived Strikes Again as an epic, zany chase picture, similar to Edwards' earlier The Great Race, but UA vetoed this long version and the movie was edited down to a more than conventional length. Some of the excised footage was afterward used in Trail of the Pink Panther. Strikes Once again was marketed with the tagline Why are the world'southward chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why non? Everybody else is. Like its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the motion picture was a box office success.
During the moving-picture show'south title sequence, there are references to television'southward Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Batman, also the films King Kong, The Sound of Music (which starred Blake Edwards's wife, Julie Andrews), Dracula A.D. 1972, Singin' in the Pelting, Steamboat Bill, Jr. and Sweet Clemency, putting the Pinkish Panther character and the animated persona of Inspector Clouseau into recognizable events from said movies. There is also 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 wrong tooth are clearly inspired past Bob Hope in The Paleface (1948).[5]
Richard Williams (later of Roger Rabbit fame) supervised the blitheness of the opening and closing sequences for the 2nd and final fourth dimension; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would return on the next moving-picture show, merely with incomparably Williamesque influences.
Sellers was unhappy with the last cut of the movie and publicly criticized Blake Edwards for misusing his talents. Their tense human relationship is noted in the next Pink Panther movie's opening credits (Revenge of the Pink Panther) list it as 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 Master of the World) which he had sent Peter Sellers in 1975.[6]
Reception [edit]
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has an approval rating of 76% based on 21 reviews, with an average score of 7.20/10.[7]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Lord's day-Times gave the film 2 and a half stars out of four and wrote, "If I'm less than totally enthusiastic about The Pink Panther Strikes Once again, maybe it was considering I've been over this ground with Clouseau many times before," stating that a time would have to come "when inspiration gives way to habit, and I retrieve the Pinkish Panther series is simply almost at that betoken. That's not to say this film isn't funny—it has moments equally good as anything Sellers and Edwards take always done—but that it's time for them to motility on. They worked together in one case on the funniest movie either one has ever washed, The Party. Now it'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'm not 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, epic self-assimilation that makes slapstick farce initially acceptable—instead of alarming—and finally so funny." Canby also enjoyed Clouseau's French emphasis, and wrote, "Both Mr. Sellers and Mr. Edwards delight in one-time gags, and office of the joy of The Pink Panther Strikes Again is watching the mode they spin out what is essentially a single routine".[ix]
The film earned theatrical rentals of $19.5 1000000 in the U.s. and Canada[x] from a gross of $33.eight million.[eleven] Internationally, it earned rentals of $10.v million for a worldwide total of $thirty million.[10] By March 1978, the film had grossed $75 million worldwide and was hoping to earn another $8 million by the finish of the year.[ane]
Awards [edit]
- The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received a 1977 Writers Social club of America Award for "All-time Comedy Adapted from Some other Medium". The motion picture likewise won a 1978 Evening Standard British Film Honor for "Best 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 moving-picture show was nominated for a 1977 Golden Globe Honor for "Best Move Picture", and Peter Sellers was nominated for "Best Motion Moving-picture show Actor – Musical/One-act".[12]
- American Motion picture Institute Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated[13]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Motion-picture show Quotes:
- "Does your dog bite?" – Nominated[fourteen]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "New 'Pink Panther,' Gear up For July Bow, Tops $7-Mil in Blind Bids". Variety. 22 March 1978. p. 39.
- ^ Allmovie Cast
- ^ a b Thames, Stephanie "The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once more" (TCM article)
- ^ IMDB Business concern Data
- ^ Starks, Michael (Oct 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-ii-262-02506-9, p. 221.
- ^ The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 19 March 2022
- ^ Ebert, Roger (twenty December 1976). "The Pink Panther Strikes Again Review (1976)". Chicago Sunday-Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (xvi December 1976). "Pink Panther Team Unflappable In Quaternary Loftier-Spirited Antic". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ a b "UA Film Rental Highlights of 1977". Variety. 11 Jan 1978. p. iii.
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Box Role Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 Jan 2012.
- ^ IMDB Awards
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs Nominees
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominees
External links [edit]
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at IMDb
- The Pink Panther Strikes Once again at the TCM Movie Database
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at AllMovie
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at the American Flick Institute Catalog
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Panther_Strikes_Again
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