The Pink Panther Strikes Again Zmovie
| The Pink Panther Strikes Again | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| 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 Downward |
| 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 | United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $75 million[1] |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again is a 1976 comedy moving picture. The 5th flick 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) virtually 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 mean solar day of his release prompts a swift relapse which cancels Dreyfus's scheduled discharge, but he presently escapes anyway, and organizes an elaborate criminal plot to threaten the countries of the world with annihilation by a massive laser weapon if they do not electrocute Clouseau for him.
Unused footage from the film was later included in Trail of the Pinkish Panther (1982), after Sellers' expiry.
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 almost to be released; Clouseau, who has since replaced Dreyfus every bit Main Inspector, arrivies unannounced to speak on behalf of his one-time dominate, and within minutes drives Dreyfus insane once more. Dreyfus afterward escapes from the hospital and in one case again tries to impale Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (past periodic organisation) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The bomb destroys Clouseau'southward apartment and injures Cato, simply Clouseau himself is unharmed, beingness 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 girl Margo (Briony McRoberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter'due south freedom.
Clouseau travels to the UK to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, where he wrecks their family domicile and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender'southward cross-dressing butler. Although Jarvis is later 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 Germany. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbender'south invention, disintegrates the Un headquarters in New York City and blackmails the leaders of the globe, including the President of the United states of america and his Secretary of State (based on Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau. However, many of the nations instruct their operatives to kill Clouseau to proceeds Dreyfus'due south favor and perhaps the Doomsday Machine. As a upshot of their orders and Clouseau'southward obliviousness, all of the other assassins stop up killing one another until only the agents of Arab republic of egypt and Russian federation remain.
The Egyptian assassin (Omar Sharif) shoots ane of Dreyfus' assassins, mistaking him for Clouseau, but is seduced past the Russian operative Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Downwards), who makes the same mistake. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed past Olga'southward affections but learns from her Dreyfus'southward location at a castle in Bavaria. Dreyfus is elated at the erroneous report of Clouseau's demise, merely 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 before attempts at sneaking in the castle had been repeatedly foiled past his full general ineptitude and the castle's drawbridge). Unrecognized past Dreyfus, Clouseau ends up 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 top of the doomsday machine, causing it to malfunction and burn down 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 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'south apparent inability to remove his apparel, and and then by Cato'southward 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 prototype of Clouseau emerges from the water, which has been tinted pink, and begins swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther graphic symbol is waiting below him with a precipitous-toothed, open mouth (a reference to the then-recent film Jaws, made further obvious by the thematic music). The movie ends every bit the animated Clouseau chases the Pinkish Panther upward the Seine as the credits ringlet.
Cast [edit]
- Peter Sellers every bit Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Herbert Lom as Former Primary Inspector Charles Dreyfus
- Leonard Rossiter as Superintendent Quinlan
- Lesley-Anne Downwardly as Olga Bariosova
- Colin Blakely equally Inspector Alec Drummond
- Burt Kwouk equally Cato Fong
- André Maranne as François
- Michael Robbins as Ainsley Jarvis
- Richard Vernon every bit Professor Hugo Fassbender
- Briony McRoberts equally Margo Fassbender
- Dick Crockett every bit the President of the United States (Gerald Ford)
- Byron Kane as the U.s.a. Secretary of State (Henry Kissinger)
- Paul Maxwell as CIA Director
- Gordon Rollings as Inmate
- Dudley Sutton every bit Inspector Mclaren
- John Clive as Chuck
- Damaris Hayman as Fiona
- Deep Roy every bit Atomic Assassin
Bandage notes [edit]
- Owing to Peter Sellers's center status, whenever possible he would accept his stunt double Joe Dunne stand up in for him. Because of the often physical nature of the comedy, this would occur quite frequently.
- Julie Andrews provided the singing voice for the female-impersonator "Ainsley Jarvis".[ii] The scene in the nightclub when Jarvis sings is in many ways similar to scenes in Edwards's later film Victor Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays a woman pretending to be a human who is a female impersonator.
- Graham Stark, a longtime friend of Sellers, once once again made an appearance in the series, admitting in a small function as the desk-bound clerk of a small High german hotel. Since his function equally 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 non play Clouseau.
- Scenes featuring Harvey Korman as Professor Auguste Balls and Marne Maitland equally Deputy Commissioner Lasorde were deleted from the motion-picture show, but were after seen in total in Trail of the Pink Panther in 1982. Graham Stark would presume the role of Professor Balls in the adjacent flick, 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 afterward filming a few scenes. Blake Edwards then intended to cast Nicola Pagett afterward seeing her in Upstairs, Downstairs but instead ended upward casting Pagett's castmate Lesley-Anne Downwardly in the role.
- Though the character of the President of the U.s.a. (portrayed by Dick Crockett) is unnamed in the flick, it is obviously based on and so electric current Usa President Gerald Ford; Crockett diameter more than a passing resemblance to the President and Ford's somewhat exaggerated reputation for awkwardness as depicted in the film was a national joke at the fourth dimension. The President's unnamed somber Secretarial assistant of Land (portrayed by Byron Kane) is obviously based on so current Secretary Henry Kissinger.
- Blake Edwards fabricated a cameo appearance in the background of the nightclub scene.
Production [edit]
The Pink Panther Strikes Over again was rushed into production attributable to the success of The Return of the Pink Panther.[3] Blake Edwards had adapted one of 2 scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pinkish Panther" TV series as the basis for that pic, and he adapted the other equally the starting bespeak for Strikes Once more. As a result, it is the merely Pink Panther sequel which has a storyline (Dreyfus in the insane asylum) that explicitly follows from the previous motion-picture show. Oddly, the plot has nix to do with the famous "Pinkish Panther diamond" of previous films, simply comes off more like a parody of James Bail movies.
The moving picture was in product from December 1975 to September 1976, with principal photography taking identify between February and June 1976.[4] The strained relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards had further deteriorated past the fourth dimension production of Strikes Again was underway. Sellers was ailing both mentally and physically, and Edwards later on 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 saw, that's what Peter had get. He was certifiable."[3]
The original cut of the film ran for around 180 minutes, but was drastically trimmed downwards to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Edwards originally conceived Strikes Again as an epic, zany chase motion 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 used in Trail of the Pink Panther. Strikes Over again was marketed with the tagline Why are the world's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is. Similar its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the film was a box office success.
During the film'south title sequence, there are references to idiot box'south Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Batman, likewise the films King Kong, The Audio of Music (which starred Blake Edwards's married woman, Julie Andrews), Dracula A.D. 1972, Singin' in the Rain, 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 apply of laughing gas and pulling the wrong molar are clearly inspired past Bob Hope in The Paleface (1948).[v]
Richard Williams (later of Roger Rabbit fame) supervised the blitheness of the opening and closing sequences for the 2nd and concluding time; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would return on the side by side film, but 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 human relationship is noted in the next Pink Panther movie's opening credits (Revenge of the Pinkish Panther) listing it as a "Sellers-Edwards" production.
French comic book writer René Goscinny of Asterix fame was reportedly trying to sue Blake Edwards for plagiarism at the fourth dimension of his expiry in 1977 later on noticing strong similarities to a script titled "Le Maître du Monde" (The Main of the Earth) 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 average score of 7.20/10.[7]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the moving picture 2 and a half stars out of four and wrote, "If I'chiliad less than totally enthusiastic about The Pink Panther Strikes Once again, perhaps it was because I've been over this ground with Clouseau many times earlier," stating that a time would take to come up "when inspiration gives way to addiction, and I think the Pink Panther serial is just almost at that betoken. That's not to say this film isn't funny—it has moments as good as anything Sellers and Edwards have ever done—but that it's time for them to move on. They worked together once on the funniest pic either one has ever done, The Party. Now information technology'south 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 non sure why Mr. Sellers and Mr. Lom are such a hilarious team, though it may be because 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 as well enjoyed Clouseau's French accent, and wrote, "Both Mr. Sellers and Mr. Edwards delight in onetime gags, and role of the joy of The Pink Panther Strikes 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 $ten.5 million for a worldwide total of $30 meg.[10] By March 1978, the film had grossed $75 meg worldwide and was hoping to earn some other $viii meg past the end of the yr.[1]
Awards [edit]
- The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received a 1977 Writers Guild of America Laurels for "Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium". The film also won a 1978 Evening Standard British Moving picture Honour for "All-time Comedy".
- "Come up to Me", written by Henry Mancini (music) and Don Blackness (lyrics), received an Academy Honor nomination for "Best Song" at the 49th Academy Awards.
- The film was nominated for a 1977 Golden World Award for "All-time Movie", and Peter Sellers was nominated for "Best Movement Picture Player – Musical/Comedy".[12]
- American Movie Establish Lists
- AFI'south 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated[xiii]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- "Does your domestic dog bite?" – Nominated[14]
Play Adaptation [edit]
The film was adapted into a play past William Gleason. Most events in the film occur though the locations sometimes are inverse. Scene changes are done past women wearing pinkish panther costumes. The play currently can be licensed through Dramatic Publishing.[xv]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "New 'Pinkish Panther,' Set For July Bow, Tops $vii-Mil in Blind Bids". Diversity. 22 March 1978. p. 39.
- ^ Allmovie Cast
- ^ a b Thames, Stephanie "The Pinkish Panther Strikes Over again" (TCM commodity)
- ^ 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-seven.
- ^ (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 Once again Review (1976)". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved two June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (xvi December 1976). "Pink Panther Team Unflappable In Quaternary High-Spirited Antic". The New York Times . Retrieved two June 2017.
- ^ a b "UA Film Rental Highlights of 1977". Variety. 11 January 1978. p. 3.
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ^ IMDB Awards
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs Nominees
- ^ AFI'south 100 Years...100 Moving-picture show Quotes Nominees
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again". Dramatic Publishing . Retrieved 9 Apr 2022.
External links [edit]
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at IMDb
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at the TCM Movie Database
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at AllMovie
- The Pinkish Panther Strikes Over again at the American Motion picture Found Catalog
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Panther_Strikes_Again
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