Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther is a 1982 comedy film starring Peter Sellers. It was the seventh film in The Pink Panther series, the last in which Sellers appeared as Inspector Clouseau. Sellers died before production began, his performance only consists of deleted scenes from previous films.

Clouseaus plane disappears en route to Lugash, and Marie Jouvet Joanna Lumley, a television reporter covering the story, sets out to interview those who knew him best. This provides flashbacks to scenes of earlier films but Jouvet also interviews Clouseaus father Richard Mulligan, at his winery, providing glimpses of Clouseaus childhood wherein he is played by Lucca Mezzofanti, and his early career in the French Resistance in which he is played by Daniel Peacock involving him failing to detonate a bridge full of crossing Nazis. Jouvet also questions Mafia don Bruno Langlois Robert Loggia, an antagonist of the next film, and tries to file a complaint against Langlois with Chief Inspector Dreyfus but Dreyfus refuses to press charges.The film ends with Marie hoping that Clouseau might be alive, and Clouseau played by John Taylor, only seen from behind is seen looking over a seaside cliff, when a seagull flies over and messes the sleeve of his coat. The words Swine seagull are heard in the distinctive over French accent of Clouseau. The animated Pink Panther in trench coat and trilby hat is then revealed in place of Clouseau watching the sunset he turns around to face the camera and flashes his coat open, but his trenchcoat reveals a montage of funny clips of Peter Sellers from his five Pink Panther films as a tribute to him, while the end credits roll. ........

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