RETURN is the third installment in the popular Pink Panther series and a reunion for director Blake Edwards and comedian Peter Sellers, who had not made a Panther film since A SHOT... more
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Actor(s): Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne, Peter Jeffrey, Burt Kwouk, Gregoire Aslan, Burt Kwouk, Andre Maranne
Director(s): Blake Edwards
Genre: Comedy
Classification: Parental Guidance
Production Year: 1975
Running Time: 1 hour 48 minutes
Franchise Name: Pink Panther
Video Category: Feature Film
Country Of Origin: United States of America
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS
Release date: 01/01/2001
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: 902 047 2
Editor: Tom Priestley
Barcode: 3259190204720
Screenwriter: Blake Edwards, Frank Waldman
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Composer: Henry Mancini
Director of Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth, Tom Priestley
Producer: Blake Edwards
Author: Blake Edwards, Frank Waldman
Art Director: Peter Mullins
DVD Description
RETURN is the third installment in the popular Pink Panther series and a reunion for director Blake Edwards and comedian Peter Sellers, who had not made a Panther film since A SHOT IN THE DARK a decade earlier. This time the bumbling French detective Inspector Clouseau is reluctantly called back into service by Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) when someone swipes the infamous Pink Panther diamond from the museum in Lugash. The prime suspect is the smoothly aristocratic jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton (Christopher Plummer), aka the Phantom. Clouseau creates his usual comic mayhem in an assortment of European watering holes as he attempts to track down the jet-setting criminal. While Lytton, who is, on this rare occasion, innocent of the crime in question, joins in the pursuit of the real criminals to avoid arrest, his lovely wife, Claudine (Catherine Schell), leads the myopic Clouseau on a wild-goose chase. As usual, Clouseau's creative methods of deduction drive Inspector Dreyfus ever closer to the brink of insanity. Sellers's comic genius is set off by a fine cast and spectacular European locations, including Gstaad and the French Riviera as well as Marakesh and Casablanca.
Advantages: Great collection of some classic films Disadvantages: Missing my favourite film - The Return of the Pink Panther
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The packaging has been produced so that the six discs take up as little space as possible - it's in a fold out format, with each disc being inserted on each page. This is quite handy, as if each disc were to have it's own case inside one large collection box, it would take up much more room than it does. The case is decorated aptly with cartoon caricatures of Clouseau, and it's like this inside the fold out collection too.
Including five films in one set is a great idea, but I am disappointed that the studio couldn't include The Return of the PinkPanther, which is probably my favourite panther film. It's got some great inane humour from Sellers, and Herbert Lom gives a great performance as Clouseau's deranged boss. For some time I tried to track down this title on video or DVD to complete my collection, and now...
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Advantages: funny Disadvantages: more for children than adults
...it all starts when the famous pinkpanther disappears from the football match everyone is on the search for it. Then chief inspector dreyfus wants to find it and wants to be the main man so he tries to find a man who would be stupid enough to do the work for him so that he wouldn't have to do anything and so you can guess who comes in here clouseau! and chaos following him one after another he gets closer and closer to the culprit. And one the way he meets the beautiful singer xania who is played by beyonce and clouseau gets more and more suspicious on her. Along with clouseau is his sidekick ponton played by jean reno and is with him throughout the film.
this film is just full of comedy and entertainment. It is more suitabable for children than adults and i would recommend it for children....
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Advantages: Hours of entertainment Disadvantages: few extras
...'Have you ever seen a panther that is pink? Think!'
The PinkPanther animation started out as a short to precede the PinkPanther films, and is seen on the opening credits of some of the Inspectoe Clousea films. He was proved to be hugely succesful and so a show of his own was commissioned, using the same distinctive theme tune by Henry Mancini.
I have always been a fan of the PinkPanther on telly as long as I can remember, I still remember watching a triple bill of PinkPanther at tea-time on a Saturday afternoon and wishin I had a car like the one the little kid had on the closing credits. So spotting this in HMV for 20 quid I decided that was a small price to pay for over 13 hours of joy. Yes, that's right. This DVD contains every episode of the original PinkPanther cartoons fom the 60's and 70's and they all add up to over 13...
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