The Return of the Pink Panther (1974)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom
Synopsis:
The principality of Lugash loses its priceless national symbol, the Pink Panther diamond, in a daring museum robbery and takes the controversial step of requesting the services of Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the Sûreté to recover it. Meanwhile Sir Charles Litton, alias the Phantom, who has been framed for the heist, sets out to prove his innocence by himself catching the perpetrator.
Review:
A belated sequel to A Shot in the Dark, with the Herbert Lom character more neurotic than ever in his hatred of Clouseau. It sort of works, despite only a very thin storyline which takes time out for Sellers' calamitous set pieces involving inanimate objects. It is at its more elegant in the bravura robbery sequence, the opening titles and Plummer's adventures in Lugash than in Sellers' clumsy pursuit of Catherine Schell in Switzerland, though the Cato sequences, benefiting from the legacy of Bruce Lee, represent two show-stopping moments of their own.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom
Synopsis:
The principality of Lugash loses its priceless national symbol, the Pink Panther diamond, in a daring museum robbery and takes the controversial step of requesting the services of Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the Sûreté to recover it. Meanwhile Sir Charles Litton, alias the Phantom, who has been framed for the heist, sets out to prove his innocence by himself catching the perpetrator.
Review:
A belated sequel to A Shot in the Dark, with the Herbert Lom character more neurotic than ever in his hatred of Clouseau. It sort of works, despite only a very thin storyline which takes time out for Sellers' calamitous set pieces involving inanimate objects. It is at its more elegant in the bravura robbery sequence, the opening titles and Plummer's adventures in Lugash than in Sellers' clumsy pursuit of Catherine Schell in Switzerland, though the Cato sequences, benefiting from the legacy of Bruce Lee, represent two show-stopping moments of their own.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom
Synopsis:
The principality of Lugash loses its priceless national symbol, the Pink Panther diamond, in a daring museum robbery and takes the controversial step of requesting the services of Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the Sûreté to recover it. Meanwhile Sir Charles Litton, alias the Phantom, who has been framed for the heist, sets out to prove his innocence by himself catching the perpetrator.
Review:
A belated sequel to A Shot in the Dark, with the Herbert Lom character more neurotic than ever in his hatred of Clouseau. It sort of works, despite only a very thin storyline which takes time out for Sellers' calamitous set pieces involving inanimate objects. It is at its more elegant in the bravura robbery sequence, the opening titles and Plummer's adventures in Lugash than in Sellers' clumsy pursuit of Catherine Schell in Switzerland, though the Cato sequences, benefiting from the legacy of Bruce Lee, represent two show-stopping moments of their own.