There are some weaker areas. The bed retracts, propelling Clouseau, Olga and Cato through the wall and into the river below.
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Priceless. Sadly Jarvis is killed, but not before Clouseau discovers a clue leading him to Munich. Michael Robbins was best known for the On the Buses sitcom and films. The gay club 'Queen of Hearts' seems to be populated by every stereotype listed in the Book of Homosexual Stereotypes for Dummies. Clouseau walks into a closet rather than through a door. Cato attacks as Clouseau lays down for a nap, but the ensuing mayhem is interrupted by a phone call from Sûreté headquarters, informing the inspector that he may be in danger from the escaped Dreyfus. Tom Jones, the singer who sang 'Thunderball', has been brought in to sing the film's main song, 'Come to Me'. The Pink Panther Strikes Again opened to positive reviews. According to the 27 Oct 1976 DV, The Pink Panther Strikes Again was scheduled to open in 600 theaters across the U.S. during the 1976 Christmas holiday, preceded by an extensive promotional campaign. This was Deep Roy's first film role, an actor who would later go on to be Droopy McCool in Return of the Jedi, all the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and Keenser in Star Trek (2009). The end credits show the Inspector swimming in the Seine, stalked by the Panther a la Jaws. 'Clouseau' also seduces a Russian agent, just as Bond does with Tatiana Romanova in the same film. Believing it to be a clue to Dreyfus’s operation, he travels to Munich, determined to solve the case without any assistance from other agencies. In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, one of the assassins is a barmaid with weapons hidden in her bosom, similar to how Austin Powers' fembots have machine-guns in their breasts3. The ending is also slightly different. Many of the cast, including Burt Kwouk and Richard Vernon, had been in Goldfinger, a film which features a giant laser. This is why whenever Clouseau falls into a moat or engages in other physical activity, it is always seen in long-shot. Like Inspector Clouseau, Clouseau goes to London to help Scotland Yard solve a crime. An article in the 29 Jan 976 HR stated that the shooting schedule was “penciled in” for ten weeks in London and four weeks in Germany. Dreyfus drills holes in the ceiling and watches Clouseau through a periscope. In Inspector Clouseau, Clouseau dodges criminal killers while the body count unintentionally rises around him, here he faces international assassins with the same result. While Clouseau tries on his new Quasimodo costume, Dreyfus plants a bomb in the apartment, but the inspector is saved when he becomes airborne by the costume’s inflatable hunchback, allowing him to float out the window before the bomb explodes. While the two men tango on the dance floor, a pair of Dreyfus’s henchmen force their way through the crowd, but are subdued by Jarvis and the patrons, before the club is raided by the police. This film's original cut was 20 minutes longer than the version released in cinemas, and included many scenes excised from the finished film. Inspector Clouseau destroys his third musical instrument, by attempting to swat a bee and instead smashing a priceless Steinway. Clouseau disguises himself as dentist Doctor Schirtz, looking remarkably like Einstein. Three years after being committed to a psychiatric hospital, Dreyfus seems completely cured. According to production notes in the AMPAS library files, the film required seventy different sets, which occupied four entire sound stages, and included an exact replica of the White House’s Oval Office. When approached for the role for Casino Royale in 1964 he hired a work-out expert and began a rigorous body-building campaign, which is believed to have contributed to his heart attacks. A news item in the 29 Dec 1976 LAHExam revealed that the singing voice of the character “Ainslie Jarvis” was supplied by actress Julie Andrews, wife of director Edwards. The 1976 film was nominated for Original Song, “Come to Me,” music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Don Black. The President of America is furious, calling the CIA, FBI and the Pentagon, determined to find out who won the game of American Football he had been watching before Dreyfus rudely interrupted. Charles, Prince of Wales, would be in attendance. AFI champions progress in visual storytelling to empower storytellers, inspire story lovers and further the limitless power of the moving image. The other Oscar-nominated film was the fourth Sellers-Clouseau film, “The Pink Panther Strikes Again,” and the most extravagant one. Michael Sellers agreed with Lesley-Ann Down's description of his father as being more interested in practical jokes than the finished film. The film, renamed The Pink Panther Strikes Again, was budgeted at $4.5 million, twice the amount spent on the previous installment in the series. A news item in the 7 Jul 1976 Var stated that principal photography for The Pink Panther Strikes Again concluded on 4 Jul 1976 in England. According to the 19 Jan 1976 LAHExam, the Shepperton Studio in Surrey, England, had been painted various shades of pink, inside and out.
Clouseau traps his hand in a gauntlet attached to a mace. Jarvis sings as a woman impersonator at Queen of Hearts club. The 7 Feb 1977 Box announced that The Pink Panther Strikes Again received its Dec 1976 Blue Ribbon Award, with the approval of “a large majority of National Screen Council members.” Another influence are previous Pink Panther films. Blake Edwards would return to the theme of a woman impersonator singing in a club featuring his wife Julie Andrews in his film Victor/Victoria, which would also feature Graham Stark. Sometime later in Washington, D.C., as the President of the United States, his German-born secretary of state, and several other colleagues watch a football game in the Oval Office, Dreyfus interrupts with a worldwide broadcast, demanding that the nations of the Earth make it their priority to kill Clouseau, or he will cause mass destruction with his doomsday machine. Although the film stays 'stereotyped' rather than 'offensive', the principal character, Jarvis, is killed in the film; Clouseau does at least visibly mourn his death afterwards. Clouseau stands on the toes of the Fassbender household, just as he had in. Another friend of Edwards was Vanda Godsell, who appears as Mrs Leverlilly. When Clouseau visits the hospital, Dreyfus is unable to retain his hard-won composure in the face of the inspector’s repeated, inadvertent assaults; Dreyfus relapses into insanity and vows to kill Clouseau. A news item in the 27 Feb 1976 DV reported that newscaster Howard K. Smith would appear in the film interviewing disaster victims. Dreyfus is visited by Clouseau, who unleashes several accidents on Dreyfus. On Saturday, the world witnesses the disappearance of the United Nations Building at the hands of Dreyfus, who demands that Clouseau be killed within the next seven days. The Egyptian assassin disguises himself as Clouseau by singing 'Thank Heavens for Little Girls'. In 1986 she would win a Golden Globe for her role in North and South. The Panther impersonates many stars of the stage and screen, including Alfred Hitchcock, Batman, King Kong, Blake Edwards' wife Julie Andrews from The Sound of Music, Dracula, Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain, Buster Keaton, and Shirley MacLaine doing 'Hey Big Spender' from Sweet Charity while being chased by the Inspector, who becomes trapped in the screen. Scenes involving physical comedy on the part of Inspector Clouseau were performed by his stunt-double, Joe Donne. According to the 20 Oct 1975 HR, and the 10 Nov 1975 Box, preproduction began in Nov 1975. Dreyfus explains his plan to recruit the world’s greatest criminal minds and rob the Paris Credit Bank of $20 million. Clouseau gets a Quasimodo from Balls, complete with helium hump. However, the character proved so popular that Sellers’s next vehicle, “A Shot in the Dark” was quickly reworked to develop the Clouseau role even further. The Egyptian assassin kills Tournier, thinking he is Clouseau, before seducing Olga the Russian assassin by impersonating Clouseau in a dark room. Peter Sellers had had a heart attack shortly after finishing The Return of the Pink Panther, however after years of failure, he refused to let his failing health prevent him from being successful again. The 31 Dec 1975 DV reported that principal photography would begin 28 Jan 1976. Seller’s fans stayed home and both films failed at the box-office. The trail leads to Cortina d’Ampezzo, where David Niven, Robert Wagner, and Capucine also become involved in the plot. Henry Mancini returned back on form for the soundtrack for this film. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) Directed by: Blake Edwards: Cast: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom and Lesley-Anne Down page about The Pink Panther Strikes Again: Studio(s): - Shepperton Studios: Shepperton Studios: The castle set from this movie was still on … The previous Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun also featured a laser. ), Ted Wass, Roberto Benigni (as Clouseau’s illegitimate but also bumbling son), and now Steve Martin, in a desperate effort to revitalize the popular movie series. By the middle of the filming his initial enthusiasm began to wane, and he became involved in a battle for control of the film with director Blake Edwards, who would write. Inspector Clouseau (1968), starring Alan Arkin
Meanwhile, Clouseau enters his apartment, readying himself for a martial arts battle with his manservant, Cato. The soundtrack album was released in Dec 1976 on United Artists Records, as reported in the 6 Dec 1976 Box. She had played a similar role in A Shot in the Dark. This film has the largest cast of any Pink Panther film, reflecting its international setting. Cato attacks as Clouseau lays down for a nap, but the ensuing mayhem is interrupted by a phone call from Sûreté headquarters, informing the inspector that he may be in danger from the escaped Dreyfus. The 14 Apr 1976 HR announced that production was moving to Munich, Germany, on 15 Apr 1976 for three weeks of filming. Charles Dreyfus is also renamed John. Like Dr Strangelove, the film talks of a Doomsday Machine, with Herbert Lom's Dreyfus physically resembling the Russian ambassador who informs the President of the Russian doomsday machine in that film. As the two lovers find each other across the vast expanse of bed, Cato attacks. The next two Bond films to be released following The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, would feature crazy rich men living in their own fortresses, whether beneath the sea or in space, plotting to destroy the world either with nuclear submarines or toxic space orchids. As the character of the Phantom does not appear in the film, the only time that the Pink Panther theme is heard is over the credits, interspersed with snatches from famous film themes over the years. The White House scenes have no impact on the rest of the film, however the characters of the President and Secretary of State are clearly based on Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger for great comic effect. In many ways it is a cross between James Bond films, Dr Strangelove, and two classics set in France, Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame. Lesley-Ann Down would later say.