The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

★ 6.9 1h 43m IMDb

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

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Cast

Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers as Chief Inspector Clouseau Died 1980 · Southsea, Hampshire, England, UK Richard Henry Sellers, CBE (September 8, 1925 – July 24, 1980), known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, for pla...
Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom as Dreyfus Died 2012 · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary Herbert Lom (born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru; 11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012) was a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 193...
Leonard Rossiter
Leonard Rossiter as Quinlan Died 1984 · Wavertree, Liverpool, England, UK Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series Rising Damp (1974–78), and Reginald Iolanthe Perr...
Colin Blakely
Colin Blakely as Drummond Died 1987 · Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Colin George Blakely  (23 September 1930 – 7 May 1987) was a Northern Irish character actor. He was considered an actor of great range. Description above from...
Graham Stark
Graham Stark as Hotel Clerk Died 2013 · Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK Graham William Stark (20 January 1922 – 29 October 2013) was an English comedian, actor, writer and director..
Byron Kane
Byron Kane as Secretary of State Died 1984 · St. Albans, Vermont, USA Byron Kane was born on May 9, 1923 in St. Albans, Vermont (USA) as Byron Harold Kaplan. He was a producer and actor, known for The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Peter Gunn (1958) and Hawaiian Eye...

Audience Reviews

Charles Dance 10/10 Feb 14, 2017
**The best of the Panther films**

As much James Bond film as Pink Panther movie, this 1976 entry begins with _former_ Chief Inspector Dreyfus, (Herbert Lom) about to be released from the lunatic asylum and all is going well - until _Chief Inspector_ Clouseau turns up...

Within minutes, the newly sane _former_ police commissioner Dreyfus is reduced to a _gibbering maniac_ - hell bent on destroying the world unless the authorities deliver Clouseau to him.


The following 90 minutes consist of an inflatable Quasimodo hovering above Notre Dame cathedral, an absurd fight with an 'oriental lunatic', assassin wars at the Oktoberfest, a dentist with a plastic nose and the destruction of the United Nations building.

Sellers and director Blake Edwards did everything right here. With a script this insane - they couldn't really go wrong.
CinemaSerf 7/10 Apr 22, 2024
Imagine poor old "Dreyfus" (Herbert Lom). Once the proud chief detective of the Sûreté now reduced to trying to convince his psychiatrist that he is over his kill-Clouseau phase and is ready to resume his place in society. Guess who turns up to wish him well at his hearing in front of the sanity commission...? Oops! Back to square one. Scoot on a bit and "Dreyfus" is now so obsessed with revenge that he has assembled a gathering of criminal minds that would make "Spectre" looks like the boy scouts. He issues the world with an ultimatum. Deliver "Clouseau" or face the imminent destruction of the globe! Meantime, the hapless sleuth (Peter Sellers) has decided that he will put himself on the trail of his nemesis whilst trying to avoid some of the twenty-odd assassins out to get him and his own, trained-to-kill manservant "Cato" (Burt Kwouk). Lom is on great form here as the maniacal character bent on getting his pound of flesh, and as Sellers wanders about leaving comedic mayhem in his path, I was with very much with him! By now, this character is established and we know what to expect with the silly accent, slapstick antics and the incompetent bumblings gently entertaining as the soundtrack and the narrative takes a pop at a few other stories (and even director Blake Edwards' wife) as it moves along. I would have preferred a different conclusion, but I suppose that was never to be in a world where a bum actually explodes and a game of croquet can lead to concussion and near drowning. It's almost as good as the first film, and shows an ability amongst everyone here to be funny without over complicating things.

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