Gerald Ford Pink Panther Strikes Again
| The Pink Panther Strikes Once 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) Blitheness: 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 |
| Product | Amjo Productions |
| Distributed past | United Artists |
| Release dates |
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| Running fourth dimension | 103 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom U.s. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $vi million |
| Box office | $75 meg[1] |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again is a 1976 comedy film. The fifth film in The Pink Panther series, its plot picks up three years after The Return of the Pink Panther, with one-time Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) almost to exist released from a psychiatric infirmary 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 day of his release prompts a swift relapse which cancels Dreyfus'southward scheduled discharge, but he soon escapes anyhow, and organizes an elaborate criminal plot to threaten the countries of the earth with anything past a massive laser weapon if they do not assassinate Clouseau for him.
Unused footage from the pic was after included in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), after Sellers' death.
Plot [edit]
Afterwards iii years in a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector of the Sûreté Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), has recovered from his obsession to impale Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is nearly to be released; Clouseau, who has since replaced Dreyfus as Chief Inspector, arrivies unannounced to speak on behalf of his former boss, and inside minutes drives Dreyfus insane once more. Dreyfus later escapes from the hospital and one time again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (past periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The bomb destroys Clouseau's 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 cause and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and the Professor'southward daughter Margo (Briony McRoberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's freedom.
Clouseau travels to the Great britain to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, where he wrecks their family unit abode and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender'southward cantankerous-dressing butler. Although Jarvis is subsequently killed by the kidnappers, to whom he had become a dangerous witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Munich, Due west Germany. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbender'south 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. However, many of the nations instruct their operatives to impale Clouseau to proceeds Dreyfus's favor and possibly the Doomsday Machine. As a outcome of their orders and Clouseau's obliviousness, all of the other assassins end up killing ane another until but the agents of Egypt and Russian federation remain.
The Egyptian assassin (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 fault. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed by Olga'due south affections but learns from her Dreyfus's location at a castle in Bavaria. Dreyfus is elated at the erroneous study 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 every bit an elderly High german dentist and finally gains entry to the castle (his before attempts at sneaking in the castle had been repeatedly foiled by his full 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 at present totally insane Dreyfus prepares to apply the machine to destroy England. Clouseau, eluding Dreyfus'due 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 fire on Dreyfus and the castle itself. Equally 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 offset past Clouseau's apparent disability to remove his clothes, and and so by Cato's latest surprise attack, which causes all three to exist hurled into the river Seine when the reclining bed snaps back upright and crashes through the wall. Immediately thereafter, a drawing paradigm of Clouseau emerges from the h2o, which has been tinted pinkish, and begins pond, 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 moving-picture show Jaws, fabricated farther obvious past the thematic music). The film ends as the blithe Clouseau chases the Pink Panther upwardly the Seine every bit the credits roll.
Cast [edit]
- Peter Sellers as Primary Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Herbert Lom as Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus
- Leonard Rossiter as Superintendent Quinlan
- Lesley-Anne Downwardly every bit Olga Bariosova
- Colin Blakely as Inspector Alec Drummond
- Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong
- André Maranne as François
- Michael Robbins every bit Ainsley Jarvis
- Richard Vernon as Professor Hugo Fassbender
- Briony McRoberts as Margo Fassbender
- Dick Crockett every bit the President of the U.s. (Gerald Ford)
- Byron Kane as the United states of america Secretarial assistant of State (Henry Kissinger)
- Paul Maxwell as CIA Director
- Gordon Rollings as Inmate
- Dudley Sutton as Inspector Mclaren
- John Clive every bit Chuck
- Damaris Hayman every bit Fiona
- Deep Roy as Diminutive Assassin
Cast notes [edit]
- Owing to Peter Sellers's heart status, whenever possible he would have his stunt double Joe Dunne stand up in for him. Because of the frequently concrete nature of the comedy, this would occur quite oftentimes.
- 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 similar to scenes in Edwards's afterwards film Victor Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays a woman pretending to be a human being who is a female impersonator.
- Graham Stark, a longtime friend of Sellers, one time again made an appearance in the series, albeit in a pocket-size part as the desk clerk of a small-scale German hotel. Since his role every bit Hercule LaJoy in A Shot in the Dark, 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 every bit Professor Auguste Assurance and Marne Maitland as Deputy Commissioner Lasorde were deleted from the film, merely were later seen in full in Trail of the Pink Panther in 1982. Graham Stark would assume the role of Professor Balls in the next motion picture, Revenge of the Pinkish Panther (1978).
- Omar Sharif appeared, uncredited, equally the Egyptian assassin.
- Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated song "Come to Me".
- The office 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 Downwardly in the role.
- Though the character of the President of the United states of america (portrayed by Dick Crockett) is unnamed in the film, it 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 awkwardness as depicted in the film was a national joke at the time. The President'southward unnamed somber Secretarial assistant of State (portrayed past Byron Kane) is plainly based on then 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.[three] 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 film, and he adapted the other equally the starting point for Strikes Again. Every bit a effect, it is the simply Pink Panther sequel which has a storyline (Dreyfus in the insane asylum) that explicitly follows from the previous picture. Oddly, the plot has nada to do with the famous "Pink Panther diamond" of previous films, but comes off more like a parody of James Bail movies.
The moving picture was in production from December 1975 to September 1976, with principal photography taking place betwixt Feb and June 1976.[iv] The strained relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards had further deteriorated by the time production of Strikes Again was underway. Sellers was bilious both mentally and physically, and Edwards later commented on the actor'due south mental state during production of the film: "If yous went to an asylum and you lot described the first inmate you saw, that'south what Peter had become. He was certifiable."[three]
The original cut of the film ran for around 180 minutes, merely was drastically trimmed down to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Edwards originally conceived Strikes Once again equally an epic, zany chase moving picture, like to Edwards' earlier The Great Race, but 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 Again was marketed with the tagline Why are the world's master assassins subsequently Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is. Like its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the film was a box office success.
During the film'southward title sequence, in that location are references to television'south Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Batman, also the films Male monarch Kong, The Audio of Music (which starred Blake Edwards's wife, Julie Andrews), Dracula A.D. 1972, Singin' in the Rain, Steamboat Neb, Jr. and Sweet Charity, putting the Pink Panther character and the blithe persona of Inspector Clouseau into recognizable events from said movies. In that location 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).[v]
Richard Williams (later of Roger Rabbit fame) supervised the animation of the opening and closing sequences for the second and last fourth dimension; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would return on the next moving-picture show, just with incomparably Williamesque influences.
Sellers was unhappy with the final 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 every bit a "Sellers-Edwards" product.
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 later noticing strong similarities to a script titled "Le Maître du Monde" (The Master of the Globe) which he had sent Peter Sellers in 1975.[six]
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/ten.[7]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Lord's day-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of 4 and wrote, "If I'm less than totally enthusiastic about The Pink Panther Strikes Again, mayhap information technology was because I've been over this ground with Clouseau many times before," stating that a time would accept to come "when inspiration gives way to habit, and I retrieve the Pink Panther serial is just about at that point. That'south not to say this moving-picture show isn't funny—it has moments as practiced as annihilation Sellers and Edwards take ever washed—merely that it's time for them to move on. They worked together in one case on the funniest movie either one has ever washed, The Party. Now information technology's time to try something new once again."[viii]
Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that the characters of Clouseau and Dreyfus "were made for each other," and further stated, "I'grand not sure why Mr. Sellers and Mr. Lom are such a hilarious team, though it may be because each is a fine comic actor 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 so funny." Canby also enjoyed Clouseau's French accent, and wrote, "Both Mr. Sellers and Mr. Edwards delight in onetime gags, and part of the joy of The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once more is watching the way they spin out what is essentially a unmarried routine".[9]
The film earned theatrical rentals of $nineteen.5 meg in the United States and Canada[x] from a gross of $33.8 1000000.[eleven] Internationally, it earned rentals of $10.5 meg for a worldwide total of $30 one thousand thousand.[x] By March 1978, the motion-picture show had grossed $75 million worldwide and was hoping to earn another $8 million by the end of the year.[1]
Awards [edit]
- The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received a 1977 Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Comedy Adjusted from Another Medium". The film also won a 1978 Evening Standard British Film Award for "Best One-act".
- "Come to Me", written by Henry Mancini (music) and Don Black (lyrics), received an Academy Honor nomination for "All-time Song" at the 49th Academy Awards.
- The motion-picture show was nominated for a 1977 Aureate World Award for "Best Motion Motion-picture show", and Peter Sellers was nominated for "Best Movement Picture Actor – Musical/Comedy".[12]
- American Moving picture Institute Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated[xiii]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- "Does your dog bite?" – Nominated[xiv]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "New 'Pink 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 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 Once more Review (1976)". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (16 December 1976). "Pinkish Panther Team Unflappable In Fourth High-Spirited Caper". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ a b "UA Film Rental Highlights of 1977". Diversity. 11 January 1978. p. 3.
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Box Function Information". Box Function Mojo. Retrieved 23 Jan 2012.
- ^ IMDB Awards
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs Nominees
- ^ AFI'southward 100 Years...100 Pic Quotes Nominees
External links [edit]
- The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once more at IMDb
- The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again at the TCM Motion picture Database
- The Pink Panther Strikes Over again at AllMovie
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at the American Picture show Institute Catalog
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Panther_Strikes_Again
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