![]() ![]() It was the first time since Inspector Clouseau in 1968 that DePatie-Freleng animated the opening titles of a Pink Panther film ( Return and Strikes Again having been done by Richard Williams' Studio). The opening animated titles in the film were designed by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, who had been involved with the series since the animated titles of the original 1963 film, The Pink Panther. Sellers' contract for Revenge gave him story approval, which is why that film carries a story credit for Sellers that none of the previous films had. Sellers balked at this and insisted that Revenge feature all new footage. He suggested that Revenge of the Pink Panther should primarily be made up of this footage and that he would write and shoot new footage around it with Sellers and company. When United Artists spent three months on previews and continuous editing of the previous Pink Panther movie The Pink Panther Strikes Again (according to Daily Variety in 1976), Edwards decided he would try to salvage any humorous material remaining. Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus.Peter Sellers as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau.Douvier and Scallini are arrested, Clouseau is awarded for their arrest by the President of France, and he and Simone spend an evening together. Dreyfus, intent on killing Clouseau and followed by the gangsters, Cato, Simone and the Hong Kong Police, chases Clouseau into a warehouse and accidentally lights up the fireworks stored inside, catching all involved parties in the resulting chaos. Clouseau impersonates Scallini while Simone distracts the real one, but one of Scallini's men spots Douvier leaving their hotel with a stranger, and Clouseau exposes his own disguise during the Gannet Transaction. Fleeing Douvier's henchmen, she tells him of Douvier's plan to meet the New York Mafia godfather Julio Scallini in Hong Kong for the Gannet Transaction - a $50,000,000 heroin sale.Ĭlouseau, Cato, and Simone journey to Hong Kong in disguise, unaware that Dreyfus is following them after overhearing their conversation. Clouseau reveals his identity to Simone and she reveals it was Douvier who ordered Clouseau's assassination. Acting on a tip-off, Clouseau and Cato inadvertently save her. Fearing she will expose him, Douvier orders she be killed at her nightclub. Needing her respectability, Douvier breaks off his affair with his secretary Simone. Clouseau attends the burial disguised as a priest, and surreptitiously reveals himself to Dreyfus, who faints and falls into the grave.ĭouvier's wife threatens him with divorce over his unfaithfulness. Dreyfus is assigned to read a eulogy at Clouseau's funeral, during which his efforts to suppress hysterical laughter at the words praising Clouseau's brilliance cause everyone to believe he is devastated by Clouseau's death. Clouseau disguises himself as Dreyfus and is driven home by François.Īt home, Clouseau finds Cato, who, despite having turned Clouseau's apartment into a Chinese-themed brothel, is relieved to see that he survived and the two plan revenge on the sponsor of Clouseau's assassination. In Russo's clothes and protesting his true identity, Clouseau is himself taken to the asylum but escapes into Dreyfus' room, who faints from the shock of seeing Clouseau alive. Douvier tries again by posing as an informant to lure Clouseau into a trap, but transvestite criminal Claude Russo steals Clouseau's car and clothes and is mistakenly killed instead by Douvier's men.Ĭlouseau is believed to be dead, prompting Clouseau's ex-boss, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus, to regain his sanity and be released from the lunatic asylum to conduct the investigation. Chong' is thwarted when Clouseau fights him off, believing him to be Clouseau's valet Cato, who has orders to keep his employer alert with random attacks. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier's aide Guy Algo suggests a show of force with the murder of the famous Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau.ĭouvier's first attempt at bombing Clouseau fails, and the subsequent attempt by Chinese martial artist 'Mr. Philippe Douvier, 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. It was also the last installment in the series that was distributed solely by United Artists the company was absorbed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 3 years after the film's release. Released in 1978, it is the final on-set performance of Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Jacques Clouseau. It is the sixth film in The Pink Panther comedy film series. Revenge of the Pink Panther is a 1978 comedy film.
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