cult film freak: PETER SELLERS GHOSTING THROUGH 'TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER'

Written by James M. Tate / 6/18/2025 / No comments / capucine , comedy , david niven , denise crosby , eighties , harvey korman , joanna lumley , peter sellers , pink panther , robert loggia

PETER SELLERS GHOSTING THROUGH 'TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER'

6/18/2025 | No comment

Title: TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1983 Rating: **1/2

Peter Sellers' trophy wife Lynne Frederick not only inherited all his money but was able to successfully sue the movie studio for TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER in which Sellers as Inspector Clouseau is brought back by use of deleted-scene-footage from THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN...

As the real star is Joanna Lumley, trying her best in the present-time-story searching for the infamously klutzy inspector in-between those cut/paste Clouseau moments that, particularly a scene with the otherwise hilarious Harvey Korman, are tediously overlong and painfully unfunny...

Opening Animation from TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER

Then again the last three movies, when the PINK PANTHER franchise was continued from the 1960's into the 1970's, are also flawed since Clouseau stopped being the grouchy, oblivious lawman and relied too heavily on costumes and wide-shot/stunt-double pratfalls...

And yet, even beyond Robert Loggia's mob-boss character's futile return from REVENGE is the blasphemous desperation in bringing back the original PINK PANTHER central teaming of David Niven and Capucine — to attempt legitimizing what should have been completely left on the cutting room floor.

Opening Animation from TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER

Peter Sellers and Harvey Korman resurrected into TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER

Closing Animation from TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER

Robert Loggia and Denise Crosby in TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER

Joanna Lumley and William Hootkins in TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER

David Niven in TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER

Capucine in TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER

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