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| Title: REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1978 Rating: **1/2 |
The last PINK PANTHER movie starring Peter Sellers was the first time he was completely invested with director Blake Edwards as co-producer, and the epic espionage of the previous STRIKES AGAIN is replaced with a somewhat contained GODFATHER homage/mafia story in which Robert Webber, threatened by Robert Loggia, has to kill Clouseau...
As this REVENGE (which is actually against Clouseau) also borrows from Sellers' best turn as the inspector from SHOT IN THE DARK... involving a pretty blonde attached to a shady rich criminal...
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| Dyan Cannon and Peter Sellers in REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER |
In Elke Sommer's place is Dyan Cannon, a classy mafioso's moll, literally in bed with Webber but soon falls for Clouseau, always a sucker for a pretty face going back to the original PINK PANTHER where he was actually married to another sophisticated crooks' lover...
The overall plot has Clouseau almost getting killed by a barrage of goons: all the while going undercover in various disguises, foreshadowing his dismal FU MANCHU swansong and, worst yet, taking away from the crabby klutzy character that worked so well in the first two ventures — when his more subtle expressions, and not a wide-shot stunt-double, was doing all the work.
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| Peter Sellers in REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER |
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| Peter Sellers and Sue Lloyd in REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER |
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