BLAKE EDWARDS RETURNS WITH 'CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlH3cajaU8JlDifzQv9tgG6E3Om7zhs9QJHLGciYVqjkS4JnU-kZAGZrC6nsFC68-ZnSiVfneGNhDmlid9rekn907FiaPSy0fCCdQ5_jLqRMjjGF1g6sYpLWmw0r9Mz2eKqIN0lvTi-Mc2ee8rW3zimWG-MgSM905E_cyRoICFhSIwGrc1kHeHxDEOkWF/s1404/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-21%20at%201.40.55%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlH3cajaU8JlDifzQv9tgG6E3Om7zhs9QJHLGciYVqjkS4JnU-kZAGZrC6nsFC68-ZnSiVfneGNhDmlid9rekn907FiaPSy0fCCdQ5_jLqRMjjGF1g6sYpLWmw0r9Mz2eKqIN0lvTi-Mc2ee8rW3zimWG-MgSM905E_cyRoICFhSIwGrc1kHeHxDEOkWF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-21%20at%201.40.55%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title:  CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1983 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Blake Edwards held onto the Peter Sellers legacy for two entire films, beginning with TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER in which Inspector Jacques Clouseau is infamously brought back to life...<br> <br>This was done using deleted scenes from THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN: a lousy patchwork with cameos by original PANTHER alumni David Niven and Capucine with a forgettable subplot involving Robert Loggia as a mobster... </p><p></p><p></p>

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BLAKE EDWARDS RETURNS WITH 'CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER'

Title:  CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1983 Rating: *** Blake Edwards held onto the Peter Sellers legacy for two entire films, beginning wi...

PETER SELLERS STEALS 'THE PINK PANTHER' FROM DAVID NIVEN

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-BLc0lBrBIMVFuECq7voBGCog8Qabyq03SY2Sf-gLoiIs-gaGTdeIITaHxoD2HK7i62CuaglYWWVCM8fFggs95Kpw6bQrXBzngXlcWudkJdo6Cuc505v0VNcD7NSvP9kDUfeG7lz2gV90F4lh0-ot91loWANg5KF3ViNB36n7EjOnqr9C77hjWL6TMCVy/s1412/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-15%20at%207.17.35%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-BLc0lBrBIMVFuECq7voBGCog8Qabyq03SY2Sf-gLoiIs-gaGTdeIITaHxoD2HK7i62CuaglYWWVCM8fFggs95Kpw6bQrXBzngXlcWudkJdo6Cuc505v0VNcD7NSvP9kDUfeG7lz2gV90F4lh0-ot91loWANg5KF3ViNB36n7EjOnqr9C77hjWL6TMCVy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-15%20at%207.17.35%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Blake Edwards' original THE PINK PANTHER refers to a diamond that drives the overall character-driven plotline of a suave diamond thief romancing a rich princess: so David Niven's the main player while Peter Ustinov was originally cast as his French foil, Inspector Clouseau...<br><br>And while it's impossible imaging anyone but Peter Sellers in the iconic role, it technically makes sense that someone not as young, likeable and downright hilarious would have existed within the original/intended storyline...</p><p><span></span></p>

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PETER SELLERS STEALS 'THE PINK PANTHER' FROM DAVID NIVEN

Title: THE PINK PANTHER Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Blake Edwards' original THE PINK PANTHER refers to a diamond that drives the overall c...

ROBERT WAGNER IN THE OBSCURE GOLF PRO CURIO 'BANNING'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyTGELiBS2F6ba2pS3dnU4zWVFPf26G63I7b7knyuF4ToYvmv5GxLJJDJQa1KdhSTcvww0x8Ywt6Bfht8QMs-LRhYLUytv1wRQiMnySbSrTsXjx8zo49ogmcCHQik1ZkuGdy68oTW1DMswu41Bo5bkYOELdQu9740poDfntU7BM258bFmex1zH4Jh5HtR/s2280/Z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="2280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyTGELiBS2F6ba2pS3dnU4zWVFPf26G63I7b7knyuF4ToYvmv5GxLJJDJQa1KdhSTcvww0x8Ywt6Bfht8QMs-LRhYLUytv1wRQiMnySbSrTsXjx8zo49ogmcCHQik1ZkuGdy68oTW1DMswu41Bo5bkYOELdQu9740poDfntU7BM258bFmex1zH4Jh5HtR/s16000/Z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Wagner and Mike Kellin from BANNING Year: 1967 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The extremely elusive and rare BANNING is a 1967 film about former golf pro Robert Wagner as the title character... coolly rolling into an exclusive Arizona golf course like an enigmatic rider from a spaghetti western... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Full of secrets and suave blackmailing that it takes half the movie to figure out, mostly through exposition from characters ranging from Guy Stockwell as the crooked son-in-law (married to Susan Clark) of super-rich Howard St. John, who practically owns the joint while Jill St. John is a rich fatale type with her hooks in Banning... but his own vulnerable heart's aimed at the golf course's seemingly chaste working-girl Anjanette Comer...</p><p><span></span></p>

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ROBERT WAGNER IN THE OBSCURE GOLF PRO CURIO 'BANNING'

Robert Wagner and Mike Kellin from BANNING Year: 1967 Rating: **** The extremely elusive and rare BANNING is a 1967 film about former golf p...

IRWIN ALLEN'S 'CITY BENEATH THE SEA' WITH STUART WHITMAN

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiftNDBTZqw8ZR_q_9CHPYATRVwnrYtIxLLaQLTsdmlFGeDqKuqUJvIV3-3_dnL8SsezRrmGreXOKjfdK5vtQgPfEJYjquScxdmJppI_s6I3X1XFxyNK6x_xlR2_FIQGteTZECmUNOYyeq8dSWUcpWVgLN6c7QPfvw8-CiJ5I2NqUBNwLKHu9wNpXFeCg=s1171" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiftNDBTZqw8ZR_q_9CHPYATRVwnrYtIxLLaQLTsdmlFGeDqKuqUJvIV3-3_dnL8SsezRrmGreXOKjfdK5vtQgPfEJYjquScxdmJppI_s6I3X1XFxyNK6x_xlR2_FIQGteTZECmUNOYyeq8dSWUcpWVgLN6c7QPfvw8-CiJ5I2NqUBNwLKHu9wNpXFeCg=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CITY BENEATH THE SEA Director: Irwin Allen Year: 1971 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between his b-science-fiction series and a-list disaster films, Irwin Allen combined both in a TV-Movie that plays out like a hopeful series pilot, CITY BENEATH THE SEA stars Stuart Whitman who, halfway through the 21st Century, is called back into the Modern-Atlantis underwater world he once ran...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Feeling more like a sequel to a previous installment since so many plates are dangling, including a beloved employee who'd been killed, blamed on Whitman by sulky ingenue Rosemary Forsyth... completely overshadowed by insanely-gorgeous secretary Susana Miranda alongside a fish-man diver and the token bad guy in Robert Wagner, out to rob Fort Knox's gold, placed within the city...</p><p><span></span></p>

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IRWIN ALLEN'S 'CITY BENEATH THE SEA' WITH STUART WHITMAN

Title: CITY BENEATH THE SEA Director: Irwin Allen Year: 1971 Rating: *** Between his b-science-fiction series and a-list disaster films, Irw...

THE WAR LOVER

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlF652e0tCK6Vsw-MZnNHdnurX4-LyzbXLDEarnGZm0ob4EqxePMEBg6yVG53aWKT9EluqRAcsxNVwENRPysODEBkQanDQGyKnhSsW9riaW3m1lnr1xy3uGIZSLqM7D2nomn8ZQF9gxq8/s1600/warloverBig.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526970994134035954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlF652e0tCK6Vsw-MZnNHdnurX4-LyzbXLDEarnGZm0ob4EqxePMEBg6yVG53aWKT9EluqRAcsxNVwENRPysODEBkQanDQGyKnhSsW9riaW3m1lnr1xy3uGIZSLqM7D2nomn8ZQF9gxq8/s200/warloverBig.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 169px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title:</span> THE WAR LOVER<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">year: </span>1962<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">cast:</span> Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Michael Crawford<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">rating: </span>***1/2<br /> <br /> Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner make a fine team, but are polar opposites. McQueen, the pilot of a B52 bomber, is tops at his gig: becoming one with the plane, and as you might have guessed, he loves war. Wagner, the passive co-pilot, is both impressed by, and wary of, his partner: especially after setting sites on Wagner's girl, a gorgeous <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">pacifist</span> Londoner who wants life back to normal. But what makes this film stand out beyond the semi-intriguing melodrama are the bomber planes, not stock footage but the real thing. And the momentum during the war scenes are topnotch, leading to a predictable climax that's quite <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">suspenseful</span> anyway.

robert wagner, romance, sixties, steve mcqueen, war

THE WAR LOVER

title: THE WAR LOVER year: 1962 cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Michael Crawford rating: ***1/2 Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner m...