When I was a kid, STRIKES BACK never seemed to turn up on TV, to my endless frustration, whereas the other films were never off the screen. I remember Christopher Plummer being an oddly unsympathetic Phantom (gratuitously breaking Graham Stark’s fingers - Edwards always did favour an unusual degree of viciousness in his slapstick) but some of the gags being very good.
#Revenge of the pink panther play adapted by series
It’s the only film in the series without the words PINK and PANTHER in the title, and it follows that it’s a little less formulaic: we’re seeing stuff being invented rather than just variations on a theme.
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To scroll through the films Sellers was around for -Īs noted by a correspondent earlier this week, A SHOT IN THE DARK introduces the supporting cast, notably Herbert Lom and Burt Kwouk. Though I’ve come to really enjoy David Niven, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale and even Robert Wagner in the original, Clouseau only really comes into his own later. While the first film is the most rounded, Clouseau fans must in some ways prefer the films in which he dominates. Of course, neither could have suspected that Edwards would rack up eight PANTHER movies, or that three of them would be made after Sellers’ death. THE PINK PANTHER was followed so quickly by sequel A SHOT IN THE DARK - before, one would have thought, the box office figures would be available - that it seems probable that Sellers and Blake Edwards knew they were onto something hot from the collaborative process alone.
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Blake Edwards to Herbert Lom: “I’ve seen you in all these serious dramas.