Revenge of the Pink Panther
Revenge of the Pink Panther is the sixth film in The Pink Panther comedy film series. Released in 1978, it is the last entry released during the lifetime of Peter Sellers, who died in 1980. It is also the last entry to be distributed solely by United Artists, which was purchased by MetroGoldwynMayer in 1981. The opening credits are animated by DePatieFreleng Enterprises. This is Graham Starks first stint as Professor Auguste Balls. He portrays him once more in Son of the Pink Panther 1993.
In Russos clothes and insisting on his true identity, Clouseau is taken to the asylum himself but escapes into Dreyfus room, who faints from the shock of seeing Clouseau alive. Clouseau manages to disguise himself as Dreyfus and is taken home by operative Franois Andr Maranne. At home, Clouseau finds Cato, who, despite having turned Clouseaus apartment into a Chinesethemed brothel, is relieved to see he survived and the two plan revenge on the sponsor of Clouseaus assassination. Meanwhile, Dreyfus is assigned to read an elegy at Clouseaus funeral by the police chiefs wife, on pain of his own discharge. During his recital, Dreyfus barely controls his mirth at the praise of Clouseau, but his reaction is disguised by his tears of muffled laughter. At the graveside ceremony, Clouseau sneaks in disguised as a church official and then surreptitiously reveals himself to Dreyfus, who recognizes him, faints, and falls into the burial pit. Clouseau escapes.Meanwhile, due to his unfaithfulness, Douviers wife threatens him with divorce. Needing her respectability, Douvier tells his secretary and paramour Simone LeGree Dyan Cannon that their relationship is over, to which Simone reacts angrily. Fearing that she will reveal his crimes, Douvier gives orders to have Simone killed at her nightclub, but having been told by an informant Alfie Bass of the possibility of trouble there, Clouseau and Cato inadvertently manage to save her. At Simones flat, Clouseau reveals his identity, prompting her to reveal that Douvier ordered Clouseaus assassination. Attacked by more hit men, Clouseau and Simone escape into a nearby flat, which coincidentally happens to be Dreyfus. Dreyfus overhears Simone telling Clouseau of Douviers plan to meet the New York Mafia godfather Julio Scallini Paul Stewart in Hong Kong, but again faints when he sees him. ........
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