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Blake Edwards, who before the first two Panthers had had a couple of huge box office successes (including the wonderful 1961 Audrey Hepburn romance Breakfast at Tiffany’s) hit a slump with a number of expensive but commercially disappointing films (like his elaborate 1965 slapstick homage The Great Race), fell into Hollywood disrepute and left for Europe for a while. The Return of the Pink Panther marked not only a return to box office grace but thereby also a return to power for Edwards who, with a kind of vengeance, made two further Sellers-Panther comedies in a row that were remarkably undiminished in uproariousness: The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), both huge commercial winners that gave Edwards the clout to make a script he had written nearly a decade before but couldn’t get financed called 10 (1979) which also went through the roof.
As a comment on the last comment, there is no continuity in these Clouseau films. There is a little from Return to ...Strikes Again as the later opens with Dreyfus still in a mental institution. But at the end of thast film he is totallt disintergrated, while in Revenge he is still alive and still in the mental institution. So that Schell_’s character may not be Capucinef’s character of Mrs. Clouseau from the first one and Mrs. Lynton in Trail and curse of the Pink Panthers. Just like the princess from the first film Claudia Cardinelle plays Elke Sommers character, Maria Gambelli in Son of the Pink Panther.
For his work in recovering the Pink Panther, Clouseau is promoted to Chief Inspector, and vows to bring Sir Charles, who has resumed his crime spree, to justice. Lady Claudine's fate is not revealed to the audience, but it is implied she was not arrested. Dreyfus is committed to a lunatic asylum, where he is straitjacketed and placed inside a rubber room, vowing revenge on Clouseau as the animated Pink Panther enters the room with a suitcase in his left hand. As the credits roll, the pink panther gets his cameraman clothes on and sets up his video camera. He then begins to film the man's foot making the words The End slowly after the credits were finished. And the Pink Panther grins at the camera with a cigarette in his mouth right before the circle closes.
In Revenge of the Pink Panther, for the final time, the bumbling but impeturbable Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) maddens his long-suffering boss Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), sharpens his wits and martial skills with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk) and foils the bad guys without ever having a clue about what he is doing. In the story, Clouseau allows a gang of drug racketeers to believe that he has been assassinated and dons a series of disguises as he travels all over the world in order to apprehend the culprits. He is assisted by Simone Legree (Dyan Cannon), the former girlfriend of the drug-lord Douvier (Robert Webber). Though it received a very mixed reception from critics, this, the sixth of the Pink Panther series, did very well at the box-office. Sadly, it was actor Peter Sellers' final Pink Panther performance before his death in 1980 (the later film, The Trail of Pink Panther was composed of outtakes from previous Pink Panther films).
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