Julie Andrews in the Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pinkish Panther Strikes Over again  is the fifth film inThe Pinkish Panther series and picks upward whereThe Render of the Pink Panther leaves off. Released in 1976,Strikes Over again is the third entry to include the words "Pinkish Panther" in its title, despite the fact the story does not involve the Pinkish Panther diamond.

Unused footage from the film was later on included inTrail of the Pink Panther.

Contents

• i Plot
• 2 Bandage
  • 2.1 Cast notes
• 3 Product

Plot

At a psychiatric infirmary, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is largely recovered from his obsession to impale the new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is about to be released when Clouseau, arriving to speak on Dreyfus' behalf, drives Dreyfus insane once again. Dreyfus promptly escapes from the asylum and once once more tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The bomb destroys Clouseau's flat and injures Cato, only Clouseau himself is unharmed, beingness lifted from the room past an inflatable disguise. Determining a more than elabourate plan is needed, Dreyfus enlists an ground forces of criminals to his crusade and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and the Professor's girl Margo (Briony McRoberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's liberty.

Clouseau travels to England to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, where he wrecks their family domicile and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender'southward cross-dressing butler. Although Jarvis is killed past the kidnappers, to whom he had become a dangerous witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Frg. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbender's invention, dissolves the Un headquarters in New York City and blackmails the leaders of the earth, including the President of the Usa (a thinly-veiled impersonation of Gerald Ford, advised by a poorly-camouflaged Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau. All the same, many of the nations instruct their assassins to kill the other assassins to gain Dreyfus's favor and peradventure the Doomsday Car. As a result of their orders and Clouseau's habitual awkwardness, the assassins all terminate upwards killing each other until but the operatives of Arab republic of egypt and Russia remain.

The Egyptian assassin (an uncredited cameo by Omar Sharif) shoots one of Dreyfus' henchmen, mistaking him for Clouseau, only is seduced past the Russian operative Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Down), who makes the aforementioned mistake. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed by Olga's affections but learns from her Dreyfus's location at a castle in Bavaria. Dreyfus is elated at Clouseau'southward apparent demise, but suffers toothache; Clouseau, his entry frustrated by the castle's drawbridge, infiltrates Dreyfus's castle bearded as a dentist, intoxicates Dreyfus (and himself) with nitrous oxide and pulls 1 of Dreyfus'south good for you teeth instead. Realising the deception, Dreyfus orders Clouseau killed, who again avoids Dreyfus' henchmen with his usual ineptitude. Enraged, Dreyfus prepares to dissolve England, but Clouseau unwittingly foils him by being catapulted onto Dreyfus's doomsday machine; the motorcar promptly malfunctions and begins disintegrating the castle walls. Every bit the remaining henchmen, Fassbender and his daughter, and eventually Clouseau himself escape the dissolving castle, Dreyfus plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on the castle's pipage organ, while himself disintegrating, until he and the castle vanish.

Returning to Paris, Clouseau is finally reunited with Olga. Nevertheless, their tryst is interrupted kickoff by Clouseau's credible inability to remove his dress without a struggle, and and so past Cato, whereupon all three are hurled past the reclining bed into the Seine. Immediately thereafter, a drawing image of Clouseau begins swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther character is waiting below him (a reference to the filmJaws, made obvious by the thematic music as the movie ends).

Cast

• Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau
• Lesley-Anne Down equally Olga Bariosova
• Leonard Rossiter as Superintendent Quinlan
• Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus
• Colin Blakely as Inspector Alec Drummond
• Richard Vernon as Professor Hugo Fassbender
• Briony McRoberts every bit Margo Fassbender
• Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong
• André Maranne equally Francois
• Gordon Rollings as Inmate
• Michael Robbins every bit Ainsley Jarvis
• Dudley Sutton every bit Inspector McClaren
• John Sullivan equally Jean Tournier
• Terry Richards every bit Bruce
• Dinny Powell as Marty
• Bill Cummings equally Harry
• Omar Sharif every bit an Egyptian Assassin

Cast notes

• Attributable to Peter Sellers'south heart status, whenever possible he would take his stunt doubleJoe Dunne stand up in for him. Because of the often physical nature of the comedy, this would occur quite frequently.
• Julie Andrews provided the singing voice for the female-impersonator "Ainsley Jarvis".^[2] The scene in the nighttime lodge when Jarvis sings are in many ways similar to scenes in Edwards's afterwards filmVictor Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays a woman pretending to be a man who is a female person impersonator.
• Graham Stark, longtime friend of Sellers, one time once more makes an advent in the series, albeit in a minor cameo role as the owner of a small German motel. Since his part equally Hercule LaJoy inA Shot in the Dark, he has since appeared in small roles in every Pinkish Panther sequel exceptInspector Clouseau, in which Sellers did non play Clouseau.
• Omar Sharif appears, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassin.
• Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated song "Come up To Me".
• The function of Olga Bariosova was originally played by Maud Adams who was replaced after filming a few scenes. Blake Edwards then intended to cast Nicola Pagett subsequently seeing her inUpstairs, Downstairs but instead ended up casting Pagett's fellow Tv set star Lesley-Anne Downward in the role.
• Blake Edwards made a cameo appearance in the background of the night club scene.

Production

The Pink Panther Strikes Again was rushed into product owing to the success ofThe Return of the Pink Panther.^[3] Blake Edwards had used ane of 2 scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pink Panther" Television set serial equally the basis for that film, and he used the other as the starting point forStrikes Once again. As a result, it is the butPink Panther movie which has a storyline that explicitly follows on from the previous film.

The film was in production from December 1975 to September 1976, with filming taking place from February to June 1976.^[4] The relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards, never very good, had seriously deteriorated by the timeStrikes Again was filmed. Sellers was physically in bad shape, and Edwards says of the thespian's mental state: "If you went to an asylum and you described the first inmate you saw, that'south what Peter had go. He was certifiable."^[3]

The original cut of the film ran for 124 minutes, only information technology was trimmed downwards to 103 minutes for theatrical release. Some of the footage was later on used inTrail of the Pink Panther.Strikes Once again was marketed with the taglineWhy are the earth's main assassins subsequently Inspector Clouseau? Why non? Everybody else is. Like its predecessor and subsequent sequel, the film was considered a box office success.

During the film's championship sequence, there are references to television'southwardAlfred Hitchcock Presents and the filmsBatman,King Kong,The Audio of Music (which starred Blake Edwards'southward wife, Julie Andrews),Dracula AD 1972,Singin' in the Rain,Steamboat Bill Jr., andSweet Charity, putting the Pink Panther graphic symbol and the animated persona of Inspector Clouseau into recognizable events from said movies. There is also a reference toJaws in the cease-credits sequence. The scene in which Clouseau impersonates a dentist and the use of laughing gas and pulling the wrong molar are conspicuously inspired by Bob Hope inThe Paleface (1948).^[5]

Richard Williams (later ofRoger Rabbit fame) supervised the animation of the opening and closing sequences for the 2nd and terminal fourth dimension; original animators DePatie-Freleng Enterprises would return on the next film, just with incomparably Williamesque influences.

Sellers was never happy with the last version of the picture and publicly criticized Blake Edwards for mis-using his talents. The strain in their relationships is noted in the next Pink Panther movie's opening credits ("Revenge Of The Pink Panther") listing it as a "Sellers-Edwards" product.

Despite being apparently killed off (after committing major crimes), Inspector Dreyfus returned inRevenge of the Pink Panther, once over again a policeman.

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