Pink Panther He Did It to Me Again
| The Pinkish 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 by | Alan Jones |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
| Production | Amjo Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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| Running time | 103 minutes |
| Countries | United kingdom U.s. |
| Linguistic communication | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box role | $75 million[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 former Principal Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) about to be released from a psychiatric infirmary after having finally been driven insane past new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau'southward (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's scheduled discharge, but he soon escapes anyway, and organizes an elaborate criminal plot to threaten the countries of the world with annihilation by a massive laser weapon if they practice not assassinate Clouseau for him.
Unused footage from the flick was later included in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), afterward Sellers' death.
Plot [edit]
Later 3 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 quondam boss, and within minutes drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus later escapes from the hospital and once again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (past periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The flop 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's daughter Margo (Briony McRoberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's freedom.
Clouseau travels to the United kingdom to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, where he wrecks their family home and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender'south 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, Westward Germany. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbender's invention, disintegrates the United Nations headquarters in New York Urban center and blackmails the leaders of the world, including the President of the United States and his Secretarial assistant of Country (based on Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau. However, many of the nations instruct their operatives to kill Clouseau to proceeds Dreyfus's favor and perchance the Doomsday Machine. As a result of their orders and Clouseau's obliviousness, all of the other assassins end up killing one another until simply 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 past the Russian operative Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Down), who makes the aforementioned 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, simply 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'due south 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 use 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 elevation of the doomsday automobile, causing it to malfunction and fire 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'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 past Clouseau's apparent disability to remove his wearing apparel, and then by Cato'due south 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 image of Clouseau emerges from the water, which has been tinted pinkish, and begins pond, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pinkish Panther character is waiting below him with a sharp-toothed, open up mouth (a reference to the then-recent film Jaws, fabricated further obvious by the thematic music). The moving picture ends as the animated Clouseau chases the Pinkish Panther up the Seine as the credits roll.
Cast [edit]
- Peter Sellers as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Herbert Lom equally Former Master Inspector Charles Dreyfus
- Leonard Rossiter every bit Superintendent Quinlan
- Lesley-Anne Down as Olga Bariosova
- Colin Blakely as Inspector Alec Drummond
- Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong
- André Maranne equally François
- Michael Robbins every bit Ainsley Jarvis
- Richard Vernon as Professor Hugo Fassbender
- Briony McRoberts as Margo Fassbender
- Dick Crockett equally the President of the U.s. (Gerald Ford)
- Byron Kane as the Us Secretarial assistant of Country (Henry Kissinger)
- Paul Maxwell as CIA Director
- Gordon Rollings every bit Inmate
- Dudley Sutton as Inspector Mclaren
- John Clive as Chuck
- Damaris Hayman as Fiona
- Deep Roy equally Atomic Assassin
Cast notes [edit]
- Owing to Peter Sellers's heart condition, whenever possible he would accept his stunt double Joe Dunne stand up in for him. Because of the oft physical nature of the comedy, this would occur quite frequently.
- Julie Andrews provided the singing vocalisation for the female-impersonator "Ainsley Jarvis".[two] 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 adult female pretending to be a human being who is a female impersonator.
- Graham Stark, a longtime friend of Sellers, once again made an appearance in the series, albeit in a modest function as the desk-bound clerk of a modest German language 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 equally Professor Auguste Balls and Marne Maitland as Deputy Commissioner Lasorde were deleted from the film, simply were afterward seen in full in Trail of the Pink Panther in 1982. Graham Stark would presume the role of Professor Assurance in the next moving-picture show, Revenge of the Pinkish Panther (1978).
- Omar Sharif appeared, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassin.
- Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated vocal "Come up to Me".
- The role of Olga Bariosova was originally played by Maud Adams, who was replaced after filming a few scenes. Blake Edwards then intended to bandage Nicola Pagett later seeing her in Upstairs, Downstairs but instead ended upward casting Pagett's castmate Lesley-Anne Down in the role.
- Though the grapheme of the President of the United States (portrayed past 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 clumsiness equally depicted in the motion-picture show was a national joke at the time. 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 advent in the background of the nightclub scene.
Production [edit]
The Pink Panther Strikes Once again was rushed into production owing to the success of The Return of the Pinkish Panther.[3] Blake Edwards had adapted one of ii scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pink Panther" TV series as the ground for that pic, and he adjusted the other as the starting point for Strikes Again. Equally a result, it is the simply Pink Panther sequel which has a storyline (Dreyfus in the insane asylum) that explicitly follows from the previous film. Oddly, the plot has nothing to practise with the famous "Pink Panther diamond" of previous films, but comes off more like a parody of James Bond movies.
The movie was in product from December 1975 to September 1976, with chief photography taking place betwixt February and June 1976.[4] The strained human relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards had further deteriorated by the time product of Strikes Again was underway. Sellers was ailing both mentally and physically, and Edwards subsequently commented on the actor's mental state during production of the film: "If yous went to an asylum and you described the first inmate you saw, that'southward what Peter had get. He was certifiable."[3]
The original cut of the moving-picture show ran for around 180 minutes, but was drastically trimmed down to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Edwards originally conceived Strikes Again as an ballsy, zany chase movie, similar to Edwards' before The Neat Race, but UA vetoed this long version and the movie was edited downward to a more conventional length. Some of the excised footage was later on used in Trail of the Pink Panther. Strikes Once again was marketed with the tagline Why are the globe's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is. Similar its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the motion picture was a box office success.
During the film'due south title sequence, there are references to television receiver'southward 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 Bill, Jr. and Sweet Charity, putting the Pinkish Panther grapheme and the blithe persona of Inspector Clouseau into recognizable events from said movies. There is likewise a reference to Jaws in the ending credits sequence. The scene in which Clouseau impersonates a dentist and the utilize 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 blitheness of the opening and closing sequences for the 2nd and concluding time; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would return on the next film, but with incomparably Williamesque influences.
Sellers was unhappy with the concluding cut of the film 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 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 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 picture has an blessing rating of 76% based on 21 reviews, with an average score of 7.xx/10.[7]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Dominicus-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of 4 and wrote, "If I'm less than totally enthusiastic about The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again, maybe it was because I've been over this basis with Clouseau many times before," stating that a time would have to come "when inspiration gives way to habit, and I think the Pink Panther series is just nigh at that point. That's not to say this moving-picture show isn't funny—it has moments as good as anything Sellers and Edwards accept always done—but that information technology's time for them to move on. They worked together once on the funniest movie either one has always done, The Party. Now it'due 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'thou not certain why Mr. Sellers and Mr. Lom are such a hilarious team, though information technology may be because each is a fine comic actor with a special talent for portraying the sort of all-consuming, ballsy self-assimilation that makes slapstick farce initially acceptable—instead of alarming—and finally then funny." Canby also enjoyed Clouseau's French accent, and wrote, "Both Mr. Sellers and Mr. Edwards delight in old gags, and part of the joy of The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once again is watching the way they spin out what is essentially a single routine".[9]
The film earned theatrical rentals of $nineteen.5 million in the U.s. and Canada[10] from a gross of $33.8 one thousand thousand.[xi] Internationally, it earned rentals of $10.v million for a worldwide total of $30 million.[10] By March 1978, the motion picture had grossed $75 million worldwide and was hoping to earn another $8 one thousand thousand by the finish of the year.[1]
Awards [edit]
- The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received a 1977 Writers Guild of America Honor for "All-time One-act Adapted from Another Medium". The flick also won a 1978 Evening Standard British Film Award for "Best Comedy".
- "Come up to Me", written past Henry Mancini (music) and Don Black (lyrics), received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Song" at the 49th University Awards.
- The picture show was nominated for a 1977 Golden Globe Award for "Best Move Flick", and Peter Sellers was nominated for "Best Flick Actor – Musical/Comedy".[12]
- American Film Institute Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated[thirteen]
- AFI'southward 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- "Does your dog seize with teeth?" – Nominated[fourteen]
Play Accommodation [edit]
The flick was adapted into a play by William Gleason. About events in the moving-picture show 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 $seven-Mil in Blind Bids". Diverseness. 22 March 1978. p. 39.
- ^ Allmovie Cast
- ^ a b Thames, Stephanie "The Pink Panther Strikes 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-ix, p. 221.
- ^ The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again, Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved xix March 2022
- ^ Ebert, Roger (xx December 1976). "The Pink Panther Strikes Again Review (1976)". Chicago Lord's day-Times . Retrieved ii June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (16 December 1976). "Pinkish Panther Team Unflappable In Fourth Loftier-Spirited Antic". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ a b "UA Pic Rental Highlights of 1977". Variety. 11 January 1978. p. 3.
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Box Office Data". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ^ IMDB Awards
- ^ AFI'southward 100 Years...100 Laughs Nominees
- ^ AFI's 100 Years...100 Motion-picture show Quotes Nominees
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again". Dramatic Publishing . Retrieved nine April 2022.
External links [edit]
- The Pink Panther Strikes Once again at IMDb
- The Pink Panther Strikes Once again at the TCM Motion-picture show Database
- The Pink Panther Strikes Over again at AllMovie
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again at the American Film Establish Catalog
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Panther_Strikes_Again
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