Pink Panther Make Out Strikes Again
| The Pink Panther Strikes Again | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Blake Edwards |
| Screenplay past | Frank Waldman Blake Edwards |
| Produced by | Blake Edwards Tony Adams (Associate Producer) Blitheness: 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 |
| Release dates |
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| Running fourth dimension | 103 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom Us |
| Linguistic communication | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $75 meg[one] |
The Pinkish Panther Strikes Over again is a 1976 one-act motion picture. The fifth movie 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) about to exist 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 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 past a massive light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation weapon if they do not electrocute Clouseau for him.
Unused footage from the film was later included in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), afterwards Sellers' expiry.
Plot [edit]
Afterwards 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 near to exist released; Clouseau, who has since replaced Dreyfus equally 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 once more tries to impale 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 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 crusade 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 girl's freedom.
Clouseau travels to the UK to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, where he wrecks their family unit home and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender's cantankerous-dressing butler. Although Jarvis is later killed past the kidnappers, to whom he had get a dangerous witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Munich, West Germany. 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 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's favor and peradventure the Doomsday Auto. Every bit a result of their orders and Clouseau'due south obliviousness, all of the other assassins cease upward killing ane another until merely the agents of Egypt and Russia 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 Downward), who makes the aforementioned mistake. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed past Olga's affections merely learns from her Dreyfus's location at a castle in Bavaria. Dreyfus is elated at the erroneous report of Clouseau's demise, just 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 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'south drawbridge). Unrecognized by Dreyfus, Clouseau ends up exhilarant both of them with nitrous oxide. When 'the dentist' mistakenly pulls the wrong tooth, Dreyfus immediately figures out information technology 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'south henchmen, unwittingly foils Dreyfus's plans when a medieval catapult outside the castle launches him on top of the doomsday car, causing it to malfunction and fire on Dreyfus and the castle itself. Every bit the remaining henchmen, Fassbender and his daughter, and somewhen 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.
Returning to Paris, Clouseau is finally reunited with Olga. However, their tryst is interrupted first by Clouseau's apparent inability to remove his apparel, and then past 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 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 abrupt-toothed, open rima oris (a reference to the then-contempo film Jaws, fabricated further obvious past the thematic music). The film ends every bit the animated Clouseau chases the Pink Panther up the Seine as the credits ringlet.
Bandage [edit]
- Peter Sellers as Primary Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Herbert Lom as Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus
- Leonard Rossiter every bit Superintendent Quinlan
- Lesley-Anne Down as Olga Bariosova
- Colin Blakely as 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 as Margo Fassbender
- Dick Crockett as the President of the United States (Gerald Ford)
- Byron Kane as the U.s.a. Secretary of State (Henry Kissinger)
- Paul Maxwell every bit CIA Director
- Gordon Rollings as Inmate
- Dudley Sutton every bit Inspector Mclaren
- John Clive as Chuck
- Damaris Hayman as Fiona
- Deep Roy equally Diminutive Assassin
Cast notes [edit]
- Owing to Peter Sellers's centre status, whenever possible he would have his stunt double Joe Dunne stand up in for him. Considering of the oftentimes physical nature of the comedy, this would occur quite frequently.
- Julie Andrews provided the singing vocalism 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 moving-picture show Victor Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays a adult female pretending to exist a human being who is a female impersonator.
- Graham Stark, a longtime friend of Sellers, once once more made an appearance in the series, albeit in a small role as the desk-bound clerk of a small German language hotel. Since his office as Hercule LaJoy in A Shot in the Nighttime, 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 as Professor Auguste Balls and Marne Maitland as Deputy Commissioner Lasorde were deleted from the film, but were later seen in full in Trail of the Pinkish Panther in 1982. Graham Stark would assume the role of Professor Assurance in the next moving picture, Revenge of the Pinkish Panther (1978).
- Omar Sharif appeared, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassin.
- Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated vocal "Come to Me".
- The role of Olga Bariosova was originally played past 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'due south castmate Lesley-Anne Down in the part.
- Though the character of the President of the United States (portrayed by Dick Crockett) is unnamed in the film, information technology is obviously based on then current Usa President Gerald Ford; Crockett bore more than than a passing resemblance to the President and Ford's somewhat exaggerated reputation for clumsiness as depicted in the film was a national joke at the time. The President's unnamed somber Secretary of State (portrayed past Byron Kane) is obviously based on then current Secretarial assistant Henry Kissinger.
- Blake Edwards made a cameo appearance in the background of the nightclub scene.
Production [edit]
The Pinkish Panther Strikes Once more was rushed into production owing to the success of The Return of the Pink Panther.[3] Blake Edwards had adapted i of two scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pink Panther" TV serial every bit the basis for that motion-picture show, and he adapted the other as the starting betoken for Strikes Over again. As a result, information technology is the but Pink Panther sequel which has a storyline (Dreyfus in the insane aviary) that explicitly follows from the previous film. Oddly, the plot has nil to do with the famous "Pink Panther diamond" of previous films, but comes off more like a parody of James Bail movies.
The picture show was in production from December 1975 to September 1976, with principal photography taking place between February and June 1976.[4] The strained relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards had farther deteriorated by the time production of Strikes Again was underway. Sellers was ailing both mentally and physically, and Edwards afterwards commented on the actor'southward mental land during product of the film: "If yous went to an asylum and yous described the first inmate you saw, that'southward what Peter had become. He was certifiable."[3]
The original cut of the flick ran for effectually 180 minutes, but was drastically trimmed downwards to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Edwards originally conceived Strikes Once again as an epic, zany hunt film, similar to Edwards' before 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 after used in Trail of the Pink Panther. Strikes Again was marketed with the tagline Why are the earth's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is. Like its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the film was a box function success.
During the film's title sequence, there are references to television'due south Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Batman, also the films King Kong, The Sound of Music (which starred Blake Edwards's married woman, Julie Andrews), Dracula A.D. 1972, Singin' in the Pelting, Steamboat Bill, Jr. and Sweet Charity, putting the Pinkish Panther graphic symbol and the blithe persona of Inspector Clouseau into recognizable events from said movies. There is also a reference to Jaws in the catastrophe credits sequence. The scene in which Clouseau impersonates a dentist and the use of laughing gas and pulling the incorrect molar are clearly inspired by Bob Promise in The Paleface (1948).[5]
Richard Williams (afterward of Roger Rabbit fame) supervised the animation of the opening and closing sequences for the second and terminal time; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would render on the side by side film, just with decidedly Williamesque influences.
Sellers was unhappy with the concluding cutting of the moving-picture show 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) listing it as a "Sellers-Edwards" production.
French comic book author 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 moving picture has an approval rating of 76% based on 21 reviews, with an average score of vii.20/10.[vii]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the moving picture two and a half stars out of 4 and wrote, "If I'm less than totally enthusiastic about The Pink Panther Strikes Again, maybe it was because I've been over this ground with Clouseau many times before," stating that a time would take to come "when inspiration gives fashion to addiction, and I call up the Pink Panther series is just about at that signal. That's non to say this film isn't funny—it has moments every bit good every bit anything Sellers and Edwards take ever done—but that it's fourth dimension for them to move on. They worked together once on the funniest movie either ane has e'er done, The Party. Now it'southward time to attempt something new once more."[eight]
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 squad, though it may be because each is a fine comic actor with a special talent for portraying the sort of all-consuming, epic cocky-absorption that makes slapstick farce initially acceptable—instead of alarming—and finally then funny." Canby besides enjoyed Clouseau'southward French emphasis, and wrote, "Both Mr. Sellers and Mr. Edwards delight in quondam gags, and role of the joy of The Pink Panther Strikes Once again is watching the way they spin out what is essentially a single routine".[ix]
The film earned theatrical rentals of $xix.v meg in the United States and Canada[10] from a gross of $33.8 1000000.[11] Internationally, it earned rentals of $ten.5 1000000 for a worldwide total of $30 million.[ten] By March 1978, the motion-picture show had grossed $75 1000000 worldwide and was hoping to earn another $8 million by the end of the twelvemonth.[i]
Awards [edit]
- The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received a 1977 Writers Order of America Award for "Best Comedy Adjusted from Some other Medium". The film also won a 1978 Evening Standard British Film Award for "Best One-act".
- "Come up to Me", written by Henry Mancini (music) and Don Black (lyrics), received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Song" at the 49th University Awards.
- The film was nominated for a 1977 Gilded Globe Award for "Best Motility Film", and Peter Sellers was nominated for "Best Motion Picture Actor – Musical/Comedy".[12]
- American Film Institute Lists
- AFI'due south 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated[13]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- "Does your canis familiaris bite?" – Nominated[14]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "New 'Pink Panther,' Set For July Bow, Tops $seven-Mil in Blind Bids". Diversity. 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-two-262-02506-9, p. 221.
- ^ The Pink Panther Strikes Once more, Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 19 March 2022
- ^ Ebert, Roger (twenty December 1976). "The Pink Panther Strikes Once again Review (1976)". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved ii June 2017.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (16 Dec 1976). "Pink Panther Team Unflappable In Fourth Loftier-Spirited Caper". The New York Times . Retrieved ii June 2017.
- ^ a b "UA Film Rental Highlights of 1977". Variety. xi Jan 1978. p. three.
- ^ "The Pink Panther Strikes Once again, Box Role Information". Box Part Mojo. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
- ^ IMDB Awards
- ^ AFI'southward 100 Years...100 Laughs Nominees
- ^ AFI'south 100 Years...100 Pic 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 Moving-picture show Constitute Itemize
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