The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the fifth film in The Pink Panther series and picks up where The Return of the Pink Panther leaves off. Released in 1976, Strikes Again is the third entry to include the words Pink Panther in its title, despite the fact the story does not involve the Pink Panther diamond.

At a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus Herbert Lom is largely recovered from his obsession to kill the new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau Peter Sellers and is about to be released when Clouseau, arriving to speak on Dreyfus behalf, drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus promptly escapes from the asylum and once again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector by periodic arrangement duels with his manservant Cato Burt Kwouk. The bomb destroys Clouseaus apartment and injures Cato, but Clouseau himself is unharmed, being lifted from the room by an inflatable disguise. Determining a more elaborate plan is needed, Dreyfus enlists an army of criminals to his cause and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender Richard Vernon and the Professors daughter Margo Briony McRoberts, forcing the professor to build a doomsday weapon in return for his daughters freedom.Clouseau travels to England to investigate Fassbenders disappearance, where he wrecks their family home and ineptly interrogates Jarvis Michael Robbins, Fassbenders crossdressing butler. Although Jarvis is killed by the kidnappers, to whom he had become a dangerous witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Germany. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbenders invention, dissolves the United Nations headquarters in New York City and blackmails the leaders of the world, including the President of the United States a thinlyveiled impersonation of Gerald Ford, advised by a poorlycamouflaged Henry Kissinger, into assassinating Clouseau. However, many of the nations instruct their assassins to kill the other assassins to gain Dreyfuss favor and possibly the Doomsday Machine. As a result of their orders and Clouseaus habitual clumsiness, the assassins all end up killing each other until only the operatives of Egypt and Russia remain. ........

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