Curse of the Trail of the Strikes Again
| Trail of the Pink Panther | |
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| Directed past | Blake Edwards |
| Screenplay by | Frank Waldman Tom Waldman Blake Edwards Geoffrey Edwards |
| Story by | Blake Edwards |
| Produced by | Blake Edwards Tony Adams Animation: Marvel Productions |
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| Cinematography | Dick Bush-league |
| Edited by | Alan Jones |
| Music by | Henry Mancini |
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| Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Company (The states) United International Pictures (International) |
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| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Countries | Uk Usa |
| Linguistic communication | English language |
| Budget | $half-dozen 1000000[1] |
| Box office | $9.one meg[2] |
Trail of the Pink Panther is a 1982 comedy film directed past Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers. It is the 7th motion picture in The Pink Panther series, the starting time moving picture in the series following Sellers' decease and too the terminal in which he appeared as Inspector Clouseau. Sellers died eighteen months before production began; his performance consists entirely of scenes from previous films (many of them deleted scenes). The newly shot fabric in the movie stars Joanna Lumley as announcer Marie Jouveat searching for the missing Clouseau – and running afoul of the inspector's enemies who do not wish to run across him return.
Plot [edit]
When the famous Pinkish Panther diamond is stolen again from Lugash, Master Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is called on the case despite protests past Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom). While on the case, Clouseau is pursued by the Mafia. Clouseau starting time goes to London to interrogate Sir Charles Litton (having forgotten that he lives in the South of French republic). Traveling to the airport, he accidentally blows up his motorcar trying to fix a popular-out lighter, but mistakenly believes it an assassination attempt, and disguises himself in a heavy cast on the flight, which causes complications in the air and on land. He then is led to an awkward introduction to the Scotland Yard detectives at Heathrow. Meanwhile, Dreyfus learns from Scotland One thousand that Libyan terrorists have marked Clouseau for bump-off, but permits him to continue. At the hotel, Clouseau has a miscommunication with the hotel clerk (Harold Berens) and gets knocked out a window several times, trying to get his bulletin from Dreyfus.
Clouseau's flight disappears over the body of water en route to Lugash, and Marie Jouvet (Joanna Lumley), a television reporter covering the story, sets out to interview those who knew him best. Among the people she interviews are Dreyfus; Hercule Lajoy (Graham Stark); Cato Fong (Burt Kwouk); and one-time precious stone thief Sir Charles Litton (David Niven) who is married to Clouseau'southward ex-wife Lady Simone (Capucine).
All of these interview scenes provides flashbacks to scenes of earlier Pink Panther films (The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Nighttime, The Render of the Pinkish Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, and Revenge of the Pinkish Panther); only Jouvet also interviews Clouseau's father (Richard Mulligan), at his winery in the south of France, providing glimpses of Clouseau's babyhood (wherein he is played past Lucca Mezzofanti), and his early career during college, almost leading him to commit suicide later on a girl of his dreams marries some other person, especially in the French Resistance (in which he is played by Daniel Peacock) involving him failing to detonate a bridge total of crossing Nazis. Jouvet likewise questions Mafia don Bruno Langlois (Robert Loggia), a mafia boss antagonist who would appear in the next film, and tries to file a complaint confronting Langlois with Chief Inspector Dreyfus; but Dreyfus refuses to press charges.
The flick ends with Marie hoping that Clouseau might exist alive somewhere equally she states: "Did Inspector Clouseau really perish in the sea, as reported? Or for reasons every bit nonetheless unknown, is he out at that place someplace, plotting his side by side move, waiting to reveal himself when the fourth dimension is right? I am reluctant to believe that misfortune has really struck down such a slap-up man." Clouseau (played by John Taylor, who doubled Sellers in The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980).)[3] is seen glancing over a seaside cliff, when a seagull flies over and defecates on the sleeve of his coat. The words "Swine seagull!" are heard in the distinctive exaggerated French emphasis of Clouseau.
The adjacent shot shows the blithe Pink Panther in trench glaze and trilby hat, revealed to be in identify of Clouseau watching the sunset; he turns around to face the camera and flashes his glaze open, but his trench coat reveals a montage of funny clips of Peter Sellers from his five Pink Panther films as a tribute to him, while the stop credits roll.
Bandage [edit]
- Joanna Lumley as Marie Jouvet
- Herbert Lom as Principal Insp. Charles Dreyfus
- David Niven as Sir Charles Litton (voiced by Rich Little)
- Richard Mulligan as Monsieur Clouseau
- Burt Kwouk every bit Cato Fong
- Capucine as Lady Simone Litton
- Robert Loggia as Bruno Langois
- André Maranne as François
- Graham Stark as Hercule Lajoy
- Ronald Fraser as Dr Longet
- Colin Blakely equally Alec Drummond
- Peter Arne equally Col. Bufoni
- Harold Kasket every bit President of Lugash
- Daniel Peacock every bit Clouseau age 18
- Lucca Mezzofanti equally Clouseau age viii
- Denise Crosby as Denise, Bruno's moll
Previously unseen footage merely [edit]
- Peter Sellers equally Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau
- Harvey Korman as Prof. Auguste Balls
- Leonard Rossiter as Superintendent Quinlan
- Dudley Sutton every bit Inspector McLaren
- Marne Maitland as Deputy Commissioner Lasorde
- Liz Smith every bit Martha
- Harold Berens every bit Hotel Clerk
- Claire Davenport as Hotel Maid
Previously seen footage only [edit]
- Robert Wagner as George Litton
- Claudia Cardinale as Princess Dala
- Colin Gordon as Tucker
Production [edit]
Sellers died in late July 1980, a yr and a half earlier production began, and his operation was constructed from deleted scenes from The Pink Panther Strikes Again. David Niven appears in the film, reprising his role of Sir Charles Lytton, which he first played in the original The Pink Panther of 1963. Niven was in the early on stages of ALS, and his voice subsequently proved too weak to loop his own dialogue during post-product; equally a result, his lines were dubbed by impressionist Rich Fiddling.
Returning series regulars include Herbert Lom every bit Main Inspector Dreyfus, Graham Stark as Hercule LaJoy (terminal seen in the 1964 Pink Panther film A Shot in the Dark), Burt Kwouk as Clouseau'south faithful man retainer Cato and André Maranne equally Sgt. François Chevalier. Trail featured the animated opening and endmost credits, animated by Marvel Productions and written and directed by Fine art Leonardi. Director Blake Edwards defended the film to Sellers, "the one and only Inspector Clouseau."
Despite the dedication, Sellers' widow Lynne Frederick filed a $3 1000000 lawsuit confronting the moving picture's producers and MGM/UA, claiming that the film macerated Sellers' reputation, and was awarded over $one million in amercement.[four] Despite this, however, there was a practical reason behind Frederick'southward suing of Edwards. Her primary objection was that Sellers had actually vetoed the use of outtakes from earlier Panthers in his lifetime and that his estate should have had the right to command the use of outtakes after his death. The reason the question of outtakes being used had come up in Sellers' lifetime was that Edwards had shot and edited a three-hr version of Strikes Again, hoping to recapture the zany spectacle of The Great Race, with Dreyfus as the melodramatic villain in the fashion of Jack Lemmon's Professor Fate. United Artists vetoed this long version and the moving-picture show was drastically cutting from 3 hours to just over an hr and a half.
Afterward Sellers died, UA tried to get Dudley Moore to accept on Clouseau in the Sellers-penned Romance of the Pink Panther. Moore refused to exercise it without Edwards directing and was willing to play Clouseau only one fourth dimension as a tribute to Sellers (knowing Romance was to have ended the series, according from a Los Angeles Times interview with Moore in 1980). UA wanted the series to continue, only Edwards refused to cast some other actor every bit Clouseau, maybe recalling the negative reception that Inspector Clouseau (1968) suffered upon release. The production featured Alan Arkin in the title role, and was without the involvement of Edwards and Sellers.
Subsequently Arthur made Moore a huge star, he was unwilling to talk about committing to a moving picture serial. MGM/UA wanted a transition film if Edwards was to introduce a new character as the series' star. Using outtakes was, according to Edwards, a brilliant thought (shooting scripts for Return, Strikes Again, and Revenge demonstrate a neat amount of comedic material from the iii films that was left on the cut room floor). Edwards had originally hoped to construct a Citizen Kane-esque narrative, with Clouseau having gone missing at the very beginning of the story, whilst the memories of the supporting characters would showcase the deleted or unused content. Unfortunately, MGM/UA refused to pay ITC the fee they were asking for the utilise of the Return outtakes, and Edwards fell behind schedule on shooting Trail/Curse (MGM/UA likewise concluded up cut both films' budgets considerably), with the effect being that Trail failed to live up to its potential.
Edwards' wife Julie Andrews has an unbilled cameo every bit a cleaning lady, dressed every bit her friend Ballad Burnett'due south charwoman character.
Soundtrack [edit]
Unusually the soundtrack album by Henry Mancini featured a compilation of themes from other Pinkish Panther movies, with only "Trail Of The Pink Panther (Main Title)" and "The Easy Life In Paris" existence from the motion picture itself. The other tracks included "Information technology Had Better Be This night (Meglio Stasera)" (from The Pink Panther), the title theme from A Shot in the Night, "The Return Of The Pink Panther (Parts I And II)" and "The Greatest Souvenir" (from The Return of the Pinkish Panther), "Come To Me", "The Inspector Clouseau Theme" and "Bier Fest Polka" (from The Pink Panther Strikes Again), and "Simone", "After the Shower" and "Hong Kong Fireworks" (from Revenge of the Pink Panther).
The soundtrack album for the picture was released by Freedom Records (LT-51139).
Critical and commercial reception [edit]
The motion picture was a critical failure. Although the movie was marketed as a tribute to Sellers, the sequel was universally disdained. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 23% based on 13 reviews, with an average score of 4.30/ten.[five] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 43 out of 100 based on viii critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[vi]
Information technology was released for Christmas 1982 and grossed merely $9 million – $22,971,889.12 in 2022 dollars ($1,341,695 on opening weekend in 800 theaters; $iii,247,458 on opening week) against its $vi 1000000 budget.[2] In contrast, the previous motion-picture show in the serial, Revenge of the Pink Panther, had fabricated over $49 million.[vii] Nevertheless, it was presently followed past a farther Pinkish Panther moving picture, Expletive of the Pink Panther, which was shot concurrently with Trail. That film did non feature Peter Sellers at all (with the exception of some archival phonation work that he was not given credit for) and instead featured Ted Wass as Clouseau's replacement Clifton Sleigh. The latter film was likewise a disquisitional and commercial disaster.
References [edit]
- ^ "Trail of the Pink Panther". IMDb. 17 December 1982.
- ^ a b Box Office Data for Trail of the Pink Panther. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ^ Lewis, Roger (2004). The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. Arrow books. p. 634. ISBN0-09-974700-6.
- ^ Blake Edwards
- ^ Trail of the Pink Panther, Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 19 March 2022
- ^ Trail of the Pink Panther Reviews, Metacritic, retrieved 19 March 2022
- ^ "Revenge of the Pinkish Panther (1978)". boxofficemojo.com.
External links [edit]
- Trail of the Pink Panther at IMDb
- Trail of the Pink Panther at the TCM Moving picture Database
- Trail of the Pink Panther at AllMovie
- Trail of the Pinkish Panther at Rotten Tomatoes
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_the_Pink_Panther
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