Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Blake Edwards

Writers:

Blake Edwards (writer)
Geoffrey Edwards (writer)

Release Date:

12 August 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery

Plot:

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him...

Plot Keywords:

Clouseau | Computer | Bumbling | Panther | Pink Panther

US TV Schedule:

Fri. Nov. 20

5:10 AM

MAX

Cast

David Niven	...	Sir Charles Litton
Robert Wagner	...	George Lytton
Herbert Lom	...	Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus
Capucine	...	Lady Simone Litton
Joanna Lumley	...	Countess Chandra
Robert Loggia	...	Bruno Langois
Harvey Korman	...	Prof. Auguste Balls
Burt Kwouk	...	Cato Fong
Ted Wass	...	Sergeant Clifton Sleigh
Roger Moore	...	Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (as Turk Thrust II)
Leslie Ash	...	Juleta Shane (AKA Julie Morgan)
Graham Stark	...	Bored Waiter
André Maranne	...	Sergeant Francois Duval
Peter Arne	...	General Bufoni
Patti Davis	...	Michelle Chauvin (as Patricia Davis)

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:L | Canada:G (Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Australia:PG | Netherlands:6 | Finland:K-12 | Norway:12 (1984) | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain

Company:

Blake Edwards

Trivia:

The film was intended to spin off the character of Clifton Sleigh as the next Inspector Clouseau in series of new Pink Panther movies, but it never took off. Ten years later, the series was revisited with Clouseau's son instead picking up the mantle in Son of the Pink Panther (1993).

Quotes:

Sergeant Clifton Sleigh: [offering photograph] Do you know this man?
Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau: No! I have never seen this person ever in my life! Never!
Sergeant Clifton Sleigh: It's Inspector Clouseau.
Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau: *Chief* Inspector.
Lady Simone Litton: *That's* Inspector Clouseau.
Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau: *Chief* Inspector!
Sergeant Clifton Sleigh: You know him?
Lady Simone Litton: Yes!
Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau: What?!

Movie Connections:

References Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

Watchable but only thanks to Moore's cameo.

This is definitely the worst Pink Panther film of all, but it's worth seeing (read-wait until the end of the film) because of a fantastic cameo of (great in this role) Roger Moore who shows that he fits very well in the part of Clouseau. I think Peter Sellers would be satisfied with Moore's outing. P.S. Note that it's the last David Niven film.