The Return of the Pink Panther
The Return of the Pink Panther in DeLuxe Color and Panavision is the fourth film in The Pink Panther series, released in 1975. The film stars Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau, returning to the part for the first time since A Shot in the Dark 1964, after having declined to reprise the role in Inspector Clouseau 1968. The film was a commercial hit and revived a previously dormant series.
In the fictional country of Lugash, a mysterious thief seizes the Pink Panther diamond and leaves a white glove marked with a goldtinted P. With its national treasure once again missing, the Shah of Lugash requests the assistance of Inspector Clouseau Peter Sellers of the Sret, as Clouseau had recovered the diamond the last time it was stolen. Clouseau has been temporarily demoted to beat cop by his boss, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus Herbert Lom, who despises him to the point of obsession, but the French government forces Dreyfus to reinstate him. Clouseau joyously receives the news after fending off a surprise attack from his servant Cato Burt Kwouk, who had been ordered to keep the Inspector on his toes, and duly goes to Lugash.Upon examining the crime scene in the national museumin which he wrecks several priceless antiquitiesClouseau concludes that the glove implicates Sir Charles Lytton Christopher Plummer, alias the notorious Phantom, as the thief. After several catastrophic failures to stake out Lytton Manor in Nice which he nearly demolishes, Clouseau believes a mysterious assassin is attempting to kill him. He follows Sir Charles wife, Lady Claudine Catherine Schell, to a resort hotel in Gstaad in search of clues to her husband, where he repeatedly bungles the investigation. ........
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