The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The best of the Panther films

As much James Bond film as Pink Panther movie, this 1976 entry begins with former Chief Inspector Dreyfus, (Herbert Lom) about to be released from the lunatic asylum and all is going well - until Chief Inspector Clouseau turns up...

Within minutes, the newly sane former police commissioner Dreyfus is reduced to a gibbering maniac - hell bent on destroying the world unless the authorities deliver Clouseau to him.

The following 90 minutes consist of an inflatable Quasimodo hovering above Notre Dame cathedral, an absurd fight with an 'oriental lunatic', assassin wars at the Oktoberfest, a dentist with a plastic nose and the destruction of the United Nations building.

Sellers and director ...

Imagine poor old "Dreyfus" (Herbert Lom). Once the proud chief detective of the Sûreté now reduced to trying to convince his psychiatrist that he is over his kill-Clouseau phase and is ready to resume his place in society. Guess who turns up to wish him well at his hearing in front of the sanity commission...? Oops! Back to square one. Scoot on a bit and "Dreyfus" is now so obsessed with revenge that he has assembled a gathering of criminal minds that would make "Spectre" looks like the boy scouts. He issues the world with an ultimatum. Deliver "Clouseau" or face the imminent destruction of the globe! Meantime, the hapless sleuth (Peter Sellers) has decided that he will put himself on the trail of his nemesis whilst trying to avoid some of ...