The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Starring:Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, AndrÃ© Maranne, Byron Kane, Howard K. Smith, Dick Crockett, Richard Vernon (II), Briony McRoberts, Dudley Sutton, Murray Kash, Hal Galili, Robert Beatty, Bob Sherman, Phil Brown, Jerry Stovin, Paul Maxwell
Director: Blake Edwards
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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Cue the Henry Mancini music and watch out for Cato--the gist of the Pink Panther series has been gathered in a six-disc boxed set. At the center of it is Peter Sellers's incarnation of inspector Jacques Clouseau, a hopelessly bumbling detective with a genius for resting his hands in the wrong place (on the surface of a spinning globe, for instance) and mangling the English language.

Writer-director Blake Edwards cast Peter Ustinov as Clouseau in The Pink Panther, but Ustinov dropped out just before shooting began. Edwards (who recounts this story in a spotty commentary track included here) and Sellers bonded over their affection for Laurel and Hardy, and immediately transformed the character of Clouseau into a walking sight gag. The first film has a delicious swinging sixties vibe, while jewel thief David Niven, Claudia Cardinale, and Capucine occupy as much screen time as Sellers. Sellers really hits his stride in A Shot in the Dark, an elegantly funny tale of Clouseau sleuthing out a murder investigation. This one introduced Herbert Lom, as the increasingly frazzled Inspector Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouk, as Clouseau's houseboy-nemesis Cato. Sellers and Edwards, whose relationship was stormy, put Clouseau aside for over 10 years, until a trilogy of mid-1970s comedies restored the character to commercial (and dare we say cultural) primacy.

Unfortunately, the very funny comeback picture, Return of the Pink Panther, is absent from this set due to rights issues with the studios involved. The Pink Panther Strikes Again has Dreyfus going bananas and targeting Clouseau; Revenge of the Pink Panther puts Clouseau in a hilarious series of disguises, climaxing in a wonderfully mounted sequence in Hong Kong. (Throughout the series, the calm, classical staging of gags by Blake Edwards reminds you of what a lost art this has become.) Trail of the Pink Panther looks better now than it did when originally released in 1982, shortly after Sellers's death; it's a batch of unused Sellers routines from previous pictures, strung together with a loose plot. In other words, it's a "deleted scenes" extra, and quite funny at times.

Subsequent efforts Curse of the Pink Panther and Son of the Pink Panther are neither included nor mentioned. A half-hour documentary gives pleasant memories from Edwards, but feels incomplete. The cartoon Panther gets his own 11-minute mini-doc, plus six cartoon shorts including the Oscar-winning "The Pink Phink." --Robert Horton

Description

Disc 1: THE PINK PANTHER Disc 2: REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER Disc 3: THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN Disc 4: A SHOT IN THE DARK Disc 5: TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER Disc 6: BONUS DISC

Customer Reviews:

Hilarious!.......2007-05-09

Just 4 stars. The missing one is for the missing "The Return of the Pink Panther (1974)". If you are looking for extreme and healthy fun, no one could it be better than Sellers to pop ups your laughings, he was great doing any role. This is a delicious collection, just improve the one buying the missing "..return", and of course..."The Party"

Review of The Pink Panther Film Collection.......2007-01-17

It is absolutely first class entertainment. It is intelligent, witty, silly, "classy" - something we rarely achieve these days. Gather your family and give them an education in how to develop a keen sense of humor or, even better, invite your friends to watch - don't forget the martinis.
LGP

Purchased as a gift.......2007-01-13

My dad was always talking about how he wanted this boxed set on DVD since he found out it existed. Christmas rolled around and he hadn't mentioned it in a while, so I surprised him with it and he was thrilled. The set is very nicely packaged, very high quality, and looks very nice. Also, my dad was pleased to see a couple of the lesser known movies (he said two are very common on TV but the others you hardly ever see). He's very happy with it, and I am very happy with my purchase. Well worth the money!

Pink Panther Film Collecton.......2007-01-10

The package arrived in excellent shape and the DVD's are all perfect. If you like the Pink Panther its a great buy.

What's not to like about Peter Sellers?.......2007-01-06

Fun to watch and relive these fine films on a nice wide-screen plasma TV. It will take you back to a more innocent age. Hard to watch if you are using a 27" tube set however.

Average customer rating:

This One is Hilarious
THE BEST PANTHER EVER!!
"Does Your Dog Bite?"
"Hello? ... Yes. There is a beautiful woman in my bed and a dead man in my bath!"
Very funny third installment but Dreyfuss 'disappearance' at the end doesn't explain how he comes back in the following episodes

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Starring: Peter Sellers , Herbert Lom , Lesley-Anne Down , Burt Kwouk , and Colin Blakely
Director: Blake Edwards
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
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The fourth Pink Panther film with Peter Sellers and directed by Blake Edwards is easily the most over-the-top, but it's still pretty entertaining. The story finds Clouseau's former boss (Herbert Lom) totally insane after years of enduring the bumbling detective, and sequestered in a castle with a death-ray gun. Clouseau has to stop him from using the weapon on the world, and his efforts to do so make for some choice, Edwards-style slapstick. The quotient of destruction (a Clouseau staple) is higher than average, but there is also real wit--particularly in a final scene where Lom re-creates his most famous role as the monster from the 1962 Phantom of the Opera. --Tom Keogh

Description

Peter Sellers is "in top form" (Cue) in this zany adventure that finds the accident-prone InspectorClouseau using some of his most outlandish disguises ever. With "ferociously funny karate encounters" (Time) with the enigmatic Cato (Burt Kwouk) and dangerous intrigue with a sexy Russian spy (Lesley-Anne Down), this hysterical comedy will strike your funny bone! Driven over the edge by the maddeningly incompetent Clouseau, former Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) commandeers a doomsday device and threatens to destroy the world. His only demand? Clouseau's death! But thanks to his nemesis' dumb luck, the assassins hired to kill him can't seem to finish the job - although Clouseau may do it himself by tripping over his own two feet!

Customer Reviews:

This One is Hilarious.......2007-06-01

I love Peter Sellers and I have three Pink Panther DVDs. The first one, "The Pink Panther," has one hilarious scene at the end which is worth having just for that; the second, "The Pink Panther Returns," is fairly funny; but I found "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" absolutely side-splitting - a must-have in your comedy collection.

THE BEST PANTHER EVER!!.......2006-12-17

Sometimes sequels are inferior to the original but not in this case.

This is the 4th Inspector Clouseau movie (after PINK PANTHER, A SHOT IN THE DARK, THE PINK PANTHER RETURNS) and they had perfected it. The combination of action, the clumsiness of Peter Sellers's character, the music score by Henry Mancini, the fight scenes with Kato, the crazy Inspector Dreyfuss and of course the classic "DOES YOUR DOG BITE?" are all there in the right amount and combination.

Also, the movie is set during the time it was filmed in which was 1976.

If you only own Pink Panther movie ever, this is the one. The previous three movies are funny but IMO drag a bit at times.

The next one after this one (THE REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER) came close to this one but never eclipsed it.

"Does Your Dog Bite?".......2006-11-04

This happens to be my favorite Pink Panther movie so far. I have seen The Pink Panther, A Shot In The Dark, Inspector Clouseau, The Return of the Pink Panther, this one, and The Pink Panther{2006}. This one happens to be the funniest in my opinion. It has a great cast. Peter Sellers as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau, Herbert Lom as Former Cheif Inspector Dreyfus, Lesley- Anne Down as Olga Bariosova, Colin Blakely as Section Director Alec Drummond, and Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong. Now, I will give you a quote from this movie. Clouseau is at a German Hotel when he sees a dog.
He asks the owner of the hotel, "Does you dog bite?" The owner says "No." Clouseau reaches down to pet the dog. It bites him. Then he says "I thought you said your dog doesn't bite." The owner of the hotel says "That is not my dog." That was my review.
Jedi404

"Hello? ... Yes. There is a beautiful woman in my bed and a dead man in my bath!".......2006-08-18

Though the film has nothing to do with the Pink Panther diamond, the cartoon panther had become synonymous with the comedy series by this point. Thus the fourth Inspector Clouseau comedy was named THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN. Though it's a little over-the-top at times - particularly during the end - it's one of the very funniest entries in the series, ranking right behind the original THE PINK PANTHER as far as overall quality. The plot involves ex-Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) going completely mad and retreating to a European castle, where he kidnaps a brilliant scientist (Robert Vernon) and his daughter (Briony McRoberts) and creates a ray gun which makes objects invisible. Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), now promoted to the rank of Chief Inspector, sets out to stop Dreyfus, while being pursued by assassins from governments worldwide who want Clouseau dead after Dreyfus makes a demand: "Give me Clouseau, and we can all sleep happily."

The script, by director Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman (who wrote all the PINK PANTHER films of the 1970s), is a non-stop laugh riot, one hilarious moment after another, brought to life by outrageously funny performances from Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom. Perhaps the funniest moments come during the wonderful animated title sequences, which spoof hits from JAWS to the 1960s BATMAN TV series. Henry Mancini contributes another great score, while Tom Jones contributes the end song, "Come To Me".

THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN is at times brilliant and always outrageously funny. If you're looking to be completely entertained AND laugh your socks off, look no further than this film. This was the final great entry in the PINK PANTHER series; the subsequent film, REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER, proved to be less-than-stellar. It also marked Peter Sellers final appearance in the series, though he was resurrected through stock footage for 1982's TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER.

Very funny third installment but Dreyfuss 'disappearance' at the end doesn't explain how he comes back in the following episodes.......2006-08-09

Burt Kwouk is a welcome addition, back but
Lom and the castle bit is a bit much! I can
see how Dreyfuss would crack up in MY chief
Inspector were Clouseau!

Average customer rating:

This One is Hilarious
THE BEST PANTHER EVER!!
"Does Your Dog Bite?"
"Hello? ... Yes. There is a beautiful woman in my bed and a dead man in my bath!"
Very funny third installment but Dreyfuss 'disappearance' at the end doesn't explain how he comes back in the following episodes

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Although A Shot in the Dark is often cited as the best of the Pink Panther comedies starring Peter Sellers, the fifth film in the series--The Pink Panther Strikes Back--is a close runner-up. Combining a James Bond-ish plot with Sellers's trademark lunacy as Inspector Clouseau, the film finds Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) driven insane by Clouseau's incompetence, threatening global destruction unless Clouseau is eliminated once and for all. Of course, the bumbling Clouseau leads a kind of charmed life, emerging relatively unscathed (and completely oblivious) from a phalanx of 26 unlucky assassins! Along the way, Sellers dons a variety of costumes and hilarious accents, and his improvisational style is given free reign. Karate showdowns with his valet, Cato (Bert Kwouk), once again keep Clouseau on his toes, and lovely Lesley-Anne Down plays a would-be assassin who finds Clouseau amorously irresistible. Highlights include the memorable "Does your dog bite?" scene between Clouseau and a goofy innkeeper, and a dental extraction scene in which Sellers and Lom reached the peak of their on-screen comedic antagonism. For good ol' fashioned slapstick comedy, they don't get much funnier than this. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

This One is Hilarious.......2007-06-01

THE BEST PANTHER EVER!!.......2006-12-17

"Does Your Dog Bite?".......2006-11-04

"Hello? ... Yes. There is a beautiful woman in my bed and a dead man in my bath!".......2006-08-18

Very funny third installment but Dreyfuss 'disappearance' at the end doesn't explain how he comes back in the following episodes.......2006-08-09

Burt Kwouk is a welcome addition, back but
Lom and the castle bit is a bit much! I can
see how Dreyfuss would crack up in MY chief
Inspector were Clouseau!

The Pink Panther Strikes Again [Region 2]

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Herbert Lom Steals this Over the Top Panther

The Pink Panther Strikes Again [Region 2]
Starring: Peter Sellers , Herbert Lom , Lesley-Anne Down , Burt Kwouk , and Colin Blakely
Director: Blake Edwards
ProductGroup: DVD
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Customer Reviews:

Herbert Lom Steals this Over the Top Panther.......2006-04-03

THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN is a bit of a dichotomy. It starts off extremely humorous with a base in some form of reality. However, as the film progresses its drifts into the world of the surreal. This film does contain some extremely good scenes but it almost comes off as a very strange dream. Herbert Lom really comes into his own in this film. He is outrageously funny and steals this film. Mancini's theme and score is once again on target and extremely innovative. This is a fun outing in all and way over the top.

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