Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
David Niven | ... | Sir Charles Litton | |
Robert Wagner | ... | George Lytton | |
Herbert Lom | ... | Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus | |
Joanna Lumley | ... | Countess Chandra | |
Capucine | ... | Lady Simone Litton | |
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) |
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's worst detective, N.Y.P.D. Sergeant Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin. Written by <rth@ece.arizona.edu>
This series should have been killed after this unfunny return with the always annoying Wass, attempting...and boy is he attempting...to fill the shoes of late great Peter Sellers. You don't even have to see the film to know it can't be done. Niven looks tired in his final role and the rest of the cast looks bored, with a feeling that they've been down this road way too many times.