The curse of the pink panther
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| German title | The curse of the pink panther | ||
| Original title | Curse of the Pink Panther | ||
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| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1983 | ||
| length | 109 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 6 | ||
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| Director | Blake Edwards | ||
| script | Blake Edwards Geoffrey Edwards |
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Tony Adams Blake Edwards Jonathan D. Krane |
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| music | Henry Mancini | ||
| camera | Dick Bush | ||
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Robert Hathaway Ralph E. Winters |
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The Curse of the Pink Panther is a US-British comedy film directed by Blake Edwards from 1983. It is the eighth sequel to the classic comedy The Pink Panther from 1963 and the second film in the chief inspector Clouseau is not portrayed by Peter Sellers , but in this case by Roger Moore .
action
The film continues the story of its predecessor. In the prologue, the events taking place at that time are described again:
A year ago, the gangster Gino Rossi stole the "Pink Panther" on behalf of Countess Chandra. When the two get into an argument about the price, Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau suddenly appears, but he cannot handle his pistol. Thereupon Rossi is shot by the countess.
Clouseau, who is considered France's best investigator, has disappeared without a trace for a year. The authorities commission chief inspector Charles LaRousse Dreyfus to search for his intimate enemy.
Dreyfus is advised to start a database query in Interpol's computer in order to find an investigator whose profile is particularly similar to that of Clouseau. Dreyfus, who is concerned that Clouseau never shows up, then hires a computer specialist with a criminal record to manipulate the computer so that it takes on the exact opposite of all the properties that Dreyfus gives it. So the New York Sergeant Clifton Sleigh is chosen.
Sleigh, who is also an absolute fool, sees the case as an opportunity to prove his talent and takes on the further search for the missing Clouseau. He is the target of numerous attacks; for example of Cato Fong, who doesn't necessarily want to see his superior, who often beat him up in fights, of Dreyfus, but also of criminals. But thanks to his clumsiness, he survived all attacks unscathed.
Sleigh interviews Sir Charles Lytton, his wife Simone and his nephew George Lytton, known from the earlier films in the series. At some point he ends up in Countess Chandra's sanatorium, where he meets a man who, because of his looks, he takes to be Roger Moore (who also plays him in this film). The alleged Roger Moore, however, speaks with a French accent, is addressed by the Countess as "sweetheart" and behaves extremely foolishly. The Countess tells Sleigh that Clouseau, who called himself Gino Rossi at the time, visited her a year ago and asked for the name of an expert in plastic surgery. Sleigh wants to pay this doctor a visit. He comes to the conclusion that Clouseau stole the diamond known as the "Pink Panther", took the code name Gino Rossi and changed his appearance through plastic surgery. He was later killed.
For the viewer, however, it can be seen that the alleged Roger Moore is Inspector Clouseau, who is now in common with Countess Chandra and has therefore gone into hiding. He has undergone facial surgery and he and the Countess manage to convince Clifton Sleigh that Gino Rossi, whose body has since been found, is Clouseau. Dreyfus is absolutely satisfied with the explanation Sleigh provided and declares the case to be resolved.
When Clouseau and Countess Chandra want to look after the "Pink Panther", they discover that it has been stolen. The perpetrator left behind a glove, the hallmark of the phantom.
The last scene shows Sir Charles, Simone and George Lytton with the "Pink Panther" on their houseboat.
background
- After the death of the main actor Peter Sellers in 1980, the Pink Panther series was to be continued with the character of New York Sergeant Clifton Sleigh as a clumsy replacement for Inspector Clouseau. In the opening credits of this film, Clifton Sleigh appears as a cartoon character next to the pink panther. However, the new version received almost only bad reviews, so that a sequel was not made again until ten years later with Roberto Benigni as the son of Inspector Clouseau .
- In the first scene of this film, Inspector Clouseau stands in the shadows so that his face cannot be seen. His other short appearances are already after the facial surgery; but at first you only see him bandaged. In the scene in which Clifton Sleigh enters the sanatorium, Clouseau can be seen properly for the first time.
- Roger Moore played as a supporting role the face-operated Inspector Clouseau. His scenes were filmed in one day while filming the James Bond film Octopussy . Actually, five days of shooting were scheduled with a fee of $ 100,000 each. In the credits he is not named as Roger Moore, but under the pseudonym Turk Thrust II . His name is also not mentioned in the film itself, but only suggested. The pseudonym Turk Thrust II is a tribute from Roger Moore to his friend Bryan Forbes , who was listed as Turk Thrust in the Pink Panther film A Shot in the Dark .
- The film was the fourth and final collaboration between Roger Moore and David Niven , who passed away shortly after filming. The Curse of the Pink Panther was Niven's last film.
- Since Niven stuttered due to his advanced ALS disease, he was partially dubbed in the original English sound by Rich Little .
- Director Blake Edwards actually had Rowan Atkinson in mind as Sergeant Clifton Sleigh , but the studio rejected this on the grounds that Atkinson was not well known in the USA.
- Bill Nighy played a small role as an ENT doctor.
- Joanna Lumley played the reporter Marie Jouvet in the previous film The Pink Panther Is Hunted . Here she was seen as Countess Chandra.
- The English original title "Curse of the Pink Panther" was also the working title of the film Inspector Clouseau - The crazy Flic with the hot look .
- The fact that Clouseau fell over into crime because of a love affair should be part of the plot of the film "The Romance of the Pink Panther", which was planned for 1980.
- The Curse of the Pink Panther was filmed in Paris , Nice , New York , Valencia and Ibiza , among others . It grossed approximately $ 4.5 million in US cinemas.
Reviews
Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times on Aug. 13, 1983 that the film aimed at an easily satisfying audience for whom a few familiar faces would do. He only had a moderate right to exist. The gags worked better when Peter Sellers played them instead of Ted Wass, but Wass played them "appropriately".
"Thanks to some successful gags and parodic film quotes, a crime comedy to smile about, which of course lacks density and really original ideas."
On the other hand, Roger Moore and his supporting role as Clouseau received critical acclaim towards the end of the film.
Web links
- Curse of the Pink Panther in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Curse of the Pink Panther at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Curse of the Pink Panther at Metacritic (English)
- Curse of the Pink Panther in the online movie database
- The curse of the pink panther in the German dubbing file
- Pink Panther Series
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Curse of the Pink Panther . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2006 (PDF; test number: 104 776 DVD).
- ^ Trivia IMDB
- ↑ Roger Moore: The Autobiography: My Name is Bond ... James Bond. IP Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-931624-62-0 , p. 296
- ↑ Curse of the Pink Panther - the Film , on h2g2
- ↑ Rowan Atkinson as Clifton Sleigh? on epixhd.com
- ↑ Filming locations for Curse of the Pink Panther on german.imdb.com
- ↑ Box office / business for Curse of the Pink Panther on german.imdb.com
- ↑ Review by Janet Maslin on nytimes.com
- ↑ The Curse of the Pink Panther. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Reviews of Roger Moore from Rotten Tomatoes
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