As the film was released virtually without any advertising, Blake Edwards sued MGM-UA who in turn sued him for overspending. Sleigh also meets Sir Charles Litton (David Niven) who is married to Clouseau's former wife Simone (Capucine) and accompanied by his nephew George Litton(Robert Wagner). Cinemark Inspector Clouseau was only a secondary character as Litton's incompetent antagonist and provided slapstick to an otherwise subtle, lighthearted caper film, a somewhat jarring contrast of styles which is typical of Edwards's films. Ted Wass was good as a bumbling detective from the USA, and of course Herbert Lom was great as usual. Suddenly, Clouseau (having disappeared inexplicably on a plane flight in the previous film) bursts in. The film might have stood a chance had it not been continually looking over its shoulder at what went before. By Sean Axmaker. Portions of an instrumental version also appear in the film's musical score several times. Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 crime comedy-drama film and a continuation of The Pink Panther series of films created by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s. According to show-business trade paper "Variety", this movie "lensed simultaneously with Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)". Curse Of The Pink Panther [DVD] Format: DVD 4.2 out of 5 stars218 ratings IMDb4.3/10.0 Prime Video$3.99 $14.99 Blu-ray$15.49 DVD$10.98 VHS Tape$9.99 Watch Instantly with Rent Buy Curse of the Pink Panther $3.99 $14.99 Customers who viewed this item also viewed Page 1of 1Start overPage 1 of 1 Previous page Anxious to end the matter and be rid of Sleigh, Dreyfus announces that this is indeed the case and that the deceased Rossi was Clouseau (though it is clear that Dreyfus does not believe that this is what happened). That is the question they asked themselves. Free shipping for many products! Thus was created "Curse of the Pink Panther." Ted Wass plays the newcomer, an amazingly inept New York cop named Clifton Sleigh, who is chosen to investigate Clouseau's disappearance. Cinemark Glenn Ford as John "Rip" Ripley; Lee Remick as Kelly Sherwood; Stefanie Powers as Toby Sherwood; Ross Martin as Garland Humphrey "Red" Lynch; Roy Poole as Brad; Ned Glass as Popcorn; Anita Loo as Lisa Soong; Patricia Huston as Nancy Ashton; Gilbert Green as Special agent; Clifton James as Capt. As it transpires, the Pink Panther was stolen by Gino Rossi (Christopher Reich) who bore a little physical resemblance to Clouseau. It grossed a worldwide total of $76 million, against a budget of $70 million. This was David Niven's final film appearance, and he died two weeks before its release. Principal photography began immediately after Trail ended but Edwards economized by planning the two films together and shooting the parts of key co-stars simultaneously. You're almost there! But Sleigh turns out to be the only detective in the world more incompetent than Clouseau himself. Watch Curse of the Pink Panther Full Movie IN HD Visit :: https://primeflixz.xyz/watch/tt0085384 Tlcharger : - https://primeflixz.xyz/watch/tt0085384 Inspe. Countess Chandra: No darling, but I'm sure you've got a very good reason. He then goes to Clouseau museum where he meets Kato (Burt Kwouk) , to the French Riveira and Valencia (Spain) where encounters mobsters (Robert Loggia) who wish to kill him . Top billing went to David Niven, who reprises his role as Sir Charles Litton, the jewel thief known as The Phantom who stole the Pink Panther diamond in the original 1963 The Pink Panther, even though he is only on screen for a few minutes. More than two decades later, Wass would direct co-star Robert Wagner in episodes of Two and a Half Men. No wonder, since it's filled with stale jokes and visual gags that have already been executed in previous "Pink Panther" entries. You're right! The original tagline on posters was 'He's been bombed, blasted and plugged in the parachute Is this any way to welcome the World's Greatest Detective?'. Clouseau leaving his profession as a police officer for a life of crime was a direct reference to Peter Sellers's unfilmed (due to Sellers's death) Romance of the Pink Panther script, which did have, at least in its first draft, Clouseau leaving the force and joining his new wife (The Frog as the script had her) in her life of crime. Please reference Error Code 2121 when contacting customer service. He sounded different here but I recognized him just the same. Jacques Clouseau: You're right! The man who steals the show is surprisingly Roger Moore as the newly Plastic surgery clad Clouseau who is made up to look like, rather appropriately, Roger Moore. He was credited as "Turk Thrust II", a nod to actor Bryan Forbes, who was credited as "Turk Thrust" in the 1964 Clouseau film, A Shot in the Dark. The Pink Panther Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. It also appears in the revival of the Inspector Clouseau character in the Steve Martin reboot films The Pink Panther (2006), and its sequel The Pink Panther 2 (2009). Anxious to hear from his nemesis again, Dreyfus makes a deal with a criminal by promising him early parole . O.K., the movie cant hit the heights of either A shot in the dark or The Pink Panther Strikes Again, but it is a nice little film in it's own right. Turk Thrust II (Sir Roger Moore) received a "Special Guest Star" credit. The franchise began with the release of the classic film The Pink Panther in 1963. The rear windshield changes a couple times in damage during the car chase. Edwards' hopes of relaunching the series without Sellers were dashed when both sequels tanked at the box-office. Curse of the Pink Panther 1983 Directed by Blake Edwards Synopsis He's been bombed, blasted and plugged in the parachute Is this any way to welcome the World's Greatest Detective? One of the few times he made me laugh was when he was doing the voice for his "instant companion.". An all around awful movie. Ted Wass is bland and ineffectual; when I watch him here I keep thinking of how much better this movie could have been if most of his scenes were acted or directed differently. Uggh!!! As he sets out on the case, Sergeant Sleigh encounters many people who prefer Clouseau not return: these include the Inspector's former manservant, Cato (Burt Kwouk), who attacks Sleigh when he breaks into the Clouseau Museum Cato now operates; Dreyfus, who attempts to kill Sleigh numerous times like he tried to kill Clouseau; and Bruno Langlois (Robert Loggia), the mafia boss from the previous film. In Son of the Pink Panther (1993), Blake Edwards made one final attempt to revive the Pink Panther series, this time by casting Italian actor Roberto Benigni as Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli, Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son by Maria Gambrelli, the murder suspect from A Shot in the Dark (1964). The film was one of two produced concurrently following the death of the series' star Peter Sellers. This violated Edwards' contract with MGM; he sued the studio for $180million in September 1983 for "willfully sabotaging the film". Firstly Ted Wass is good in the role of Clifton Sleigh, perhaps it is the fact that the character is too bumbling in the wrong direction that it doesn't work out. Debut theatrical movie of Soap (1977) star Ted Wass. Enter Sergeant Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) of the New York Police Department, a walking disaster area that his commanding officer is overjoyed to pack off to Paris. And besides David Niven and Capucine, it was nice to see Robert Wagner also show up as Niven's nephew George Lytton who's also from The original Pink Panther. It is the last in which Sellers played Clouseau. Curiously, this would be the only film in the series not to have a soundtrack album released until The Pink Panther 2. Trail was a critical and commercial failure. Watch it if you must, but you'll be reminded of how Peter Sellers will be missed. Since this movie bombed (or buumbed), you'd think Edwards was through with the Pink Panther series once and for all. That opposite would be Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) from New York City. Alan Arkin took over the role of France's 'greatest' detective in Inspector Clouseau (1968) with disastrous results. Roger Moore is credited as Turk Thrust II. Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 crime comedy-drama film and a continuation of The Pink Panther series of films created by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s. Forbes was actually billed as "Turk Thrust" in A Shot in the Dark (1964), in which he played an attendant at a nudist camp. Realizing it's heavy, he slips out of the shot and drops the diamond offscreen, shattering it. Edwards would not have directed the later Wass films (Terry Marcel was slated to helm the next one) and Edwards' son, Geoffrey Edwards and Sam Bernard would have scripted. The matter was settled out of court. Romance of the Pink Panther was to have been the seventh film in the franchise, and written by Peter Sellers and Jim Moloney. This turns out to be Sergeant Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass), an incompetent officer of the New York Police Department. To view this content, please use one of the following compatible browsers: Curse Of The Pink Panther, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) My Somewhat Checkered Career, After the death of Peter Sellers in 1980, Blake Edwards made the unexpected decision to revive the Pink Panther film franchise by creating not one but two sequels simultaneously without the defining presence of Sellers in the lead as Inspector Clouseau. It was Niven's final film performance and, due to his failing health, his voice was dubbed by impressionist Rich Little. As it happens, Moore was best man at Forbes' wedding. Now, the way around this was to take clips and outtakes from the previous films and intersperse them in a new and completely contrived plot. His act is loaded with slapstick, in attempt to copy Clouseau's style. This series should have been killed after this unfunny return with the always annoying Wass, attemptingand boy is he attemptingto fill the shoes of late great Peter Sellers. This turns out to be Sergeant Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass), an officer of the NYPD who are glad to get rid of him for a while. Curse of the Pink Panther movie clips: http://j.mp/12MQ4sFBUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/12MNBypDon't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6prCLIP DE. The film that launched the second Pink Panther series, The Pink Panther, starring Steve Martin as Clouseau, directed by Shawn Levy and produced by Robert Simonds, was released in February 2006 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was co-produced with Columbia Pictures. Wass' option for several sequels was never taken up, though Edwards did start planning what would become Son of the Pink Panther around the time of the settlement but MGM was not interested. In addition to the credits sequences, the theme often accompanies any suspenseful sequence in the first film and in most of the subsequent films featuring the character of Clouseau. Director Blake Edwards Writers Blake Edwards Geoffrey Edwards Stars David Niven Robert Wagner Herbert Lom A major plus in "The Curse of the Pink Panther" is the appearance of Roger Moore. [3] However, on November 19, 2020, a CGI animated / live-action hybrid Pink Panther film was officially announced with Jeff Fowler directing the feature instead of Silverman and Chris Bremner developing the script, though the film will still be produced by Julie Andrews, Walter Mirisch, and his son Lawrence Mirisch. Clifton Sleigh, but Moore turned it down, not wishing to commit to a series following the success of Arthur. Curse of the Pink Panther COMEDY Inspector Clouseau is missing and the Pink Panther (David Niven) is hot on his trail in this wildly funny laugh-fest that offers plenty of slapstick humor and a myriad of stars including Joanna Lumley, Herbert Lom and Robert Wagner. with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more. Curse, sadly, proved to be Niven's final film. David Niven did not reprise the role of Sir Charles Lytton, who is portrayed in the film by Christopher Plummer instead. Shortly after this, Edwards sued MGM for defamation of character. As he sets about his inquiry, Sleigh becomes the target of many people who would rather he did not find Clouseau. One more appearance I was pleasantly surprised by was that of Pat Corley-best known to me as Phil the bartender on "Murphy Brown"-as Sleigh's frustrated superior in New York. Niven was in declining health when he shot his scenes for Curse of the Pink Panther and it was apparent in his voice. Clouseau's boss and nemesis Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is directed to use a supercomputer to find the world's greatest detective to find France's greatest detective. The world's worst detective investigates the disappearance of Inspector Clouseau. This was because MGM was at war with Edwards over the budget and shooting schedule and the scene had to be shot last as Moore was then shooting Octopussy concurrently. MGM wanted to continue with a cheaper version of the series. "Blake Edwards says that if Clouseau is Charlie Chaplin, then Sleigh is Harold Lloyd," explained Wass in a quote featured in the film publicity materials. Graham Stark, who played Clouseau's assistant in A Shot in the Dark (1964) and Trail of the Pink Panther and various supporting roles in three other sequels, plays a waiter and Joanna Lumley, who played the reporter in Trail, is a Countess here. It's no exaggeration to say this is the worst of the series. This movie was intended to spin-off the character of Clifton Sleigh as the next Inspector Clouseau in a series of new Pink Panther movies, but it never took off. Edwards made one more attempt to revive the franchise, Son of the Pink Panther (1993) with Roberto Benigni in the lead, before Steve Martin took on the role of Inspector Clouseau in the 2006 remake The Pink Panther, directed by Shawn Levy. The role was then modified to include elements of slapstick. Curse of the Pink Panther Countries Produced United Kingdom Duration 110 minutes Year of Release 1983 Product Tags Blu-ray Format Blu-ray Program Type Movie Sound Features Digital Theater Systems (akin to 5.1) Screen Format Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV Aspect Ratio 2.35:1 Subtitles English Studio KL Studio Classics Other Product Name The film features a cameo by Roger Mooreas Clouseau himselfat the end of the film. In "The Pink Panther", George is pretending to be with Greenpeace, but is actually living a reckless life off his uncle's money, which Sir Charles believes is putting George through college. Immediately upon reporting to duty, his clumsiness sends Dreyfus to the hospital. They both turned it down ), and we never saw Sleigh again. The character was featured in the opening of every Clouseau film except A Shot in the Dark and Inspector Clouseau. PinkPantherMania.com, Romance of the Pink Panther - the Never Released Pink Panther Movie. Pink Panther: The Ultimate Guide to the Coolest Cat in Town, Jerry Beck. After the cut and paste film that was "Trail of The Pink Panther" Blake Edwards tries to create an American version of Clouseau in Clifton Sleigh and have him set out on a mission to find Inspector Clouseau while in the process questioning characters from the other (successful) Pink Panther films. I am smoking on zhe wrong end, because I have a very good reason. Moreno; Al Avalon as Man who picks up Kelly Most of the films in the series starred Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau and were directed and co-written by Blake Edwards. 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