Pink Panther Strikes Again Dreyfus Chases Clouseau

Revenge of the Pink Panther is the sixth film in The Pink Panther film serial. Released in 1978, it was the last entry released during the lifetime of series star Peter Sellers, who died in 1980. It is also the concluding entry to be distributed solely by United Artists, which merged with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981. The opening credits were animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.

Plot

Philippe Douvier, on the outside a respected business man, but secretly the leader of the French Connexion, is facing a falling out with their New York Mafia drug trading partners because they believe him not capable of properly conducting concern. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier's adjutant Guy Algo suggests to have the man killed who is currently presenting the greatest danger to their merchandise: Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau—a programme which Douvier sanctions afterwards some consideration.

Douvier'due south attempt to blow Clouseau up with a bomb fails, and the subsequent attempt by a Chinese martial artist called Mr. Chong (an uncredited advent by the Founder of American Kenpo, Ed Parker) is thwarted when Clouseau accidentally knocks him out of a window, believing him to be his (Clouseau'southward) valet Cato, who had orders to keep his employer alert past ways of random attacks. That dark, Douvier anonymously calls Clouseau and poses every bit an informant to tell him the whereabouts of an important criminal involved in the French Connexion. Despite beingness warned past Cato that it has to be a trap, Clouseau—concluding that it is so obvious that information technology couldn't perchance be a trap—drives toward the location, but his motorcar and clothes are stolen at gunpoint by a transvestite criminal named Claude Rousseau (Sue Lloyd). Rousseau drives into the trap and is killed by Douvier's men. Subsequently the bulk of people believe Clouseau to be dead and, equally a result of this assumption, Clouseau's mad boss, ex-Commissioner Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), is accounted sane and is to exist released from the Mental Asylum to endeavour to cleft the example (despite the fact that Dreyfus was apparently killed in The Pink Panther Strikes Over again), while Douvier's plans continue.

In Rousseau'southward wearing apparel, Clouseau is taken to the mental asylum (a scene featuring a cameo past Andrew Sachs, whose character apparently believes himself to exist Hercule Poirot), but escapes into Dreyfus' room. Dreyfus faints at the sight of Clouseau, whom he believed expressionless, whereupon Clouseau disguises himself every bit Dreyfus and is driven home in a car past operative François. At home, Clouseau finds Cato, who (despite having turned Clouseau's apartment into a Chinese-themed brothel) is relieved to meet him alive. Having settled Clouseau's initial acrimony at Cato, the ii plan their revenge on the person who ordered Clouseau's assassination, taking advantage of the belief that Clouseau is dead to conduct their investigations.

Dreyfus, led to believe that the human being he saw was Claude Rousseau, is assigned to read a eulogy at Clouseau's funeral. His objections are overridden by political necessity when it is revealed that the oral communication was equanimous by the police principal's married woman, who was apparently fond of Clouseau. During the recital, Dreyfus is unable to command his laughter at the statements he is obliged to speak, merely conceals his amusement by giving the impression that he is weeping rather than laughing. But when Clouseau surreptitiously reveals himself amongst the attendants of the funeral, Dreyfus faints into the burial pit moments before the primary of ceremonies completes his oration.

Shortly subsequently his wife threatens him with a divorce, Douvier, needing her respectability and her silence pertaining to his crimes, tells his secretary/paramour Simone LeGree (Dyan Cannon) that their courting must end. Angry, Simone storms out of Douvier'southward office. Considering she was quite intimately involved in his business concern, Douvier gives orders to have Simone killed at a nightclub chosen Le Lodge Phut (a play on the word "clubfoot").

Having been told by a seafaring informant (Alfie Bass) of the possibility of trouble at the nightclub, Clouseau and Cato investigate and accidentally salvage Simone from being murdered by Douvier's assassins; Simone takes Clouseau (whom she considers her savior) home. At Simone'south flat, Clouseau tells Simone that he is the supposedly expressionless Chief Inspector; although Simone does non believe him at beginning, he somewhen convinces her of the truth, prompting her to reveal that Douvier ordered Clouseau'due south assassination every bit part of his endeavour to impress the American Godfather. When another duo of assassins strength their style in, Clouseau and Simone escape into the flat below, in which lives Dreyfus. Dreyfus overhears Simone telling Clouseau of Douvier's plans to see with the New York Mafia Godfather, Julio Scallini, in Hong Kong, but again faints when he sees Clouseau.

Clouseau, Cato, and Simone travel from Paris to Hong Kong and tail Douvier, unaware that Dreyfus has too arrived. Clouseau impersonates Scallini, while Simone distracts the real Scallini so that Clouseau can uncover Douvier's plans. He succeeds, but the plan goes amiss when Clouseau's disguise is exposed. A car hunt begins, terminating in a crash at the Hong Kong docks. Here, Dreyfus recognizes Clouseau, loses his mind again and tries to kill Clouseau, chasing him into a firework warehouse. Within, Dreyfus inadvertently sets the stored fireworks debark, and the resulting explosions sow chaos between all the participants, which somewhen leads to the arrests of Douvier and Scallini. Clouseau is awarded for their arrest by the President of French republic. Thereafter, he and Simone spend an evening together.

Cast

• Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau
• Herbert Lom as Commissioner Charles Dreyfus
• Dyan Cannon equally Simone Legree
• Robert Webber every bit Philippe Douvier
• Paul Stewart as Julio Scallini
• Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong

External links

Revenge of the Pink Panther at the Internet Flick Database

hickeygond1977.blogspot.com

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