The Pink Panther Strikes Again

United Kingdom, United States

1976

103 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Blake Edwards, Tony Adams

SCR Blake Edwards, Frank Waldman

CAST Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter

Charles Dreyfus escapes from the mental asylum and tries to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He doesn’t succeed at first, so he takes on another strategy, namely to build a Doomsday machine and demand that someone else kills Jacques Clouseau, or Dreyfus will use the machine to wipe out whole cities and even whole countries… With about 22 assassins from all over the globe on his tail, Clouseau decides to find Dreyfus alone and put him back in the mental asylum. —IMDb

Director

Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards’ stepfather’s father J. Gordon Edwards was a silent screen director, and his stepfather Jack McEdwards was a stage director and movie production manager. Blake acted in a number films, beginning with Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) and wrote a number of others, beginning with Panhandle (1948) and including six for director Richard Quine. He created the popular TV series “Peter Gunn” (1958), “Mr. Lucky” (1959) and “Dante” (1960). He directed a diverse body of films, from comedies to dramas to war films to westerns, including such pictures as Operation Petticoat (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Experiment in Terror (1962), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The Pink Panther (1963) and A Shot in the Dark (1964). After The Great Race (1965) he began fighting with studios. In England he surfaced again with The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), then went back to Hollywood and a real hit, 10 (1979). Victor Victoria (1982) won him French and Italian awards for Best Foreign… read more

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lizle

10Jan12

The world lost a great comedic actor when Peter Sellers left the scene. Darn.

Harry Rossi

13Apr11

I love these movies so much. Peter Sellers is a genius.

Spencer Draper

3Jan11

The best of the 70's Panther sequels. Return was a return to form, but with Strikes Again, it was decided to go a bit more over the top. Dreyfus and his tics have never been more manic, and the whole thing just goes at a nonstop pace for 100 min. A great many of the more famous Panther gags are here including the Oktoberfest sequence. And you never thought that crossing a moat could be so treacherous...