Revenge of the Pink Panther
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Blake Edwards |
| Produced by | Blake Edwards |
| Screenplay by | Frank Waldman Ron Clark Blake Edwards |
| Story by | Blake Edwards |
| Starring |
Peter Sellers Dyan Cannon Robert Webber Tony Beckley Paul Stewart Herbert Lom |
| Music by |
Henry Mancini Leslie Bricusse (songwriter) |
| Cinematography | Ernest Day |
| Edited by | Alan Jones |
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Sellers-Edwards Productions
Jewel Productions Limited |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12,000,000 |
| Box office | $49.5 million |
Revenge of the Pink Panther is the sixth film in The Pink Panther comedy film series. Released in 1978, it is the last entry released during the lifetime of Peter Sellers, who died in 1980. It is also the last entry to be distributed solely by United Artists, which was purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981. The opening credits are animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. This is Graham Stark's first stint as Professor Auguste Balls. He portrays him once more in Son of the Pink Panther (1993).
Philippe Douvier (Robert Webber), a major businessman and secretly the head of the French Connection, is suspected by his New York Mafia drug trading partners of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier's aide Guy Algo (Tony Beckley) suggests a show of force with the murder of the famous Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers). Unfortunately for Douvier, his first attempt at bombing Clouseau fails, and the subsequent attempt by Chinese martial artist 'Mr. Chong' (an uncredited appearance by the founder of American Kenpo, Ed Parker) is thwarted when Clouseau successfully fights him off (believing him to be Clouseau's valet Cato (Burt Kwouk), who has orders to keep his employer alert with random attacks). Douvier tries again by posing as an informant to lure Clouseau into a trap, but the Chief Inspector's car and clothes are stolen by transvestite criminal Claude Russo (Sue Lloyd), who is unknowingly killed by Douvier's men instead. Subsequently, Douvier and the French public believe Clouseau is dead; as a result of this assumption, Clouseau's ex-boss, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), is restored to sanity and is released from the lunatic asylum to perform the investigation (though he was seemingly disintegrated in the previous film).
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