The pink panther is hunted

Movie
German title	The pink panther is hunted
Original title	Trail of the Pink Panther
Country of production	United Kingdom USA
original language	English
Publishing year	1982
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Blake Edwards
script	Blake Edwards Farnk Waldman Tom Waldman Geoffrey Edwards
production	Tony Adams Blake Edwards
music	Henry Mancini
camera	Dick Bush
cut	Alan Jones
occupation
Peter Sellers : Jacques Clouseau David Niven : Sir Charles Litton Herbert Lom : Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus Richard Mulligan : Clouseau's father Joanna Lumley : Marie Jouvet Capucine : Lady Simone Litton Robert Loggia : Bruno Langois Harvey Korman : Prof. Auguste Balls Burt Kwouk : Cato Graham Stark : Hercule Lajoy Peter Arne : Col. Bufoni André Maranne : Sergeant Francois Duval Ronald Fraser : Dr. Longet Leonard Rossiter : Superintendent Quinlan
chronology
←  Predecessor Inspector Clouseau - The crazy Flic with the hot look Successor  → The Curse of the Pink Panther

The Hunted Pink Panther is a British-American feature film directed by Blake Edwards from 1982. It is the seventh episode and the last film in the Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau. After Sellers' death, the film was compiled from excerpts from earlier films and scenes that had already been filmed but not yet used, supplemented by a newly filmed framework.

action

When a priceless diamond - called the Pink Panther - was stolen in Lugash , the Sûreté asked inspector Clouseau to investigate. With a whole arsenal of disguises, Clouseau makes his way to Lugash , where he never arrives. His plane is reported missing.

In order to clear up his disappearance, the journalist Marie Jouvet conducts interviews with every person who has ever worked with Clouseau, including Chief Inspector Dreyfus, his servant Cato, Hercule Lajoy and Clouseau's father, who tells of his son's childhood and adolescence and his activities Narrated in the Resistance during the Second World War .

Jouvet concludes that Clouseau must still be alive - and the film also ends with a shot of Clouseau standing on the edge of a cliff.

Publications

DVD

The film was released on DVD in 2003 as part of the Pink Panther Collection .

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was in turn composed by Henry Mancini . The soundtrack LP and CD pressing (1988) included a compilation of well-known pieces of music from previous Pink Panther films. The pieces from the film A Shot in the Dark are a rarity . Only track 1 was re-recorded especially for the film:

Original edition

1. The Trail of the Pink Panther (Main Title)
2. The Greatest Gift
3. Hong Kong Fireworks
4. A shot of the dark
5. Simone
6. It Had Better Be Tonight
7. The Easy Life in Paris
8. Come to me
9. Beer festival polka
10. After the shower
11. The Inspector Clouseau Theme
12. The Return of the Pink Panther

criticism

“A lovable obituary for the comedian Peter Sellers and his legendary embodiment of the idiot policeman, created from old, partly never used scenes and a newly shot frame story. This 'leftover' use leaves a stale aftertaste, however, because, in addition to some ingenious slapstick gags, it also contains many weak, superfluous scenes that only serve to stretch the film to full length. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• Trail of the Pink Panther in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Pink Panther at rotten tomatoes (English)
• The Pink Panther at Metacritic (English)
• The pink panther is hunted in the online film database
• The pink panther is hunted in the German synchronous file
• Backgrounds and comprehensive summary (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The pink panther is hunted. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .