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Présentation:
Second film d'une longue série sur le sujet
de l'inspecteur Clouseau, ce film est malheureusement le moins
intéressant et le moins drôle de tous. Contrairement
au premier et aux suivants, le film actuel est répétitif
et le scénario est hautement prévisible, ce
qui a fait l'objet d'une mauvaise critique à l'époque
de sa sortie en 1976.
Techniquement, cette production, qui s'inscrit dans une série
produite par la MGM en DVD est une vive déception car
on ne semble pas avoir effectué de correction vidéo
et à une époque où les correctifs sont
la norme et améliorent grandement la qualité
des images et des couleurs, cette série est à
éviter car pour le même prix, on peut avoir beaucoup
mieux sur une autre marque.
(D'après Wikipedia)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the fifth film in the Pink
Panther series and picks up where The Return of the Pink Panther
leaves off. Released in 1976, Strikes Again is the third entry
to include the words "Pink Panther" in its title,
despite the fact the story does not involve the Pink Panther
diamond. Unused footage from the film was later included in
Trail of the Pink Panther.Contents
[hide]
* 1 Plot
* 2 Cast
* 3 Production
* 4 Awards
* 5 Notes
* 6 External links
[edit] Plot
At a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector Charles
Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is largely recovered from the murderous
insanity that saw him repeatedly attempt to kill the thorn
in his side, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He is about to be
released but Clouseau (Peter Sellers), who is now Chief Inspector
and has arrived to speak on Dreyfus's behalf, comes to visit
and his clumsiness and proneness to accidents drive Dreyfus
insane again.
Soon thereafter, Dreyfus escapes from the asylum, intent on
killing Clouseau, apparently had become a deranged good-cop-gone-bad.
His first attempt involves planting a bomb whilst Clouseau
destructively duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk),
who is under orders to keep Clouseau alert by randomly attacking
him. The bomb merely destroys Clouseau's apartment whilst
Clouseau himself is unharmed, largely because Clouseau has
been distracted by an inflatable costume and a telephone call.
Cato ends up in the hospital.
Dreyfus sets his sights higher. Using his knowledge of the
underworld, he enlists the help of an army of vicious criminals,
kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard
Vernon) and the Professor's daughter Margo (Briony McRoberts),
forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon"
in return for his daughter's freedom. Because Hugo Fassbender
fears to have his daughter harmed, he agrees.
Clouseau travels to England to investigate Fassbender's disappearance,
with typically chaotic results, as Scotland Yard Section Director
Alec Drummond (Colin Blakely) and Superintendent Quinlan (Leonard
Rossiter) painfully learn. Meanwhile Dreyfus broadcasts himself
to the world to announce his ultimatum: destroy Clouseau or
he will destroy mankind. Disintegrating the United Nations
headquarters in New York City before the disbelieving eyes
of the world, he blackmails the leaders of the world, including
the President of the United States (a thinly veiled impersonation
of Gerald Ford, advised by a similarly poorly camouflaged
Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau.
Forced to take Dreyfus's threat seriously, several nations
send assassins to kill Clouseau at the Oktoberfest in Germany.
Many of the nations, however, instruct their assassins to
kill other assassins if necessary in order to win Dreyfus's
favour and possibly get hold of the Doomsday Machine. This,
combined with Clouseau's typical bumbling fashion, enables
Clouseau to evade each assassination attempt just as it is
about to happen, so that the assassins all kill each other
instead. The assassins of twenty-six nations are killed in
the attempt, so that the only survivors are the Egyptian (an
uncredited cameo by Omar Sharif) and a Soviet operative. The
Egyptian assassin, sneaking into Clouseau's hotel room, shoots
a man he believes to be Clouseau (who is in fact one of Dreyfus's
henchmen, who had taken it upon himself to kill Clouseau).
The Russian operative, Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Down),
who has sneaked into Clouseau's room, seduces the Egyptian,
similarly mistaking him for Clouseau. His passionate sexuality
convinces her not to assassinate him; when the real Clouseau
makes an appearance, he is surprised to discover a beautiful
woman in his bed who confuses him further by declaring her
undying passion for him, and by finding a dead man in his
bath. A tattoo on the dead man, combined with Olga's dismissively
revealed knowledge, reveals to Clouseau Dreyfus's location
at a castle in Bavaria.
Dreyfus is elated at Clouseau's apparent demise, but his joy
is soured by a bad case of toothache. Clouseau, who has arrived
in the village near Dreyfus's castle and has unsuccessfully
attempted to breach the castle, thwarted every time by a drawbridge
that appears to be mocking him, eventually infiltrates Dreyfus's
castle hideout disguised as a dentist, intoxicates Dreyfus
with nitrous oxide, and pulls one of Dreyfus's healthy teeth.
Realising the deception and laughing hysterically, Dreyfus
orders Clouseau killed, but Clouseau escapes.
Enraged, Dreyfus means to seek vengeance on the world by destroying
England; as he prepares for this, Clouseau, who has been thrown
into the castle's barnyard, is literally catapulted onto Dreyfus's
doomsday machine. Clouseau's weight redirects the disintegrator
so that the beam hits Dreyfus (causing his feet to disappear)
and Dreyfus's castle. As Dreyfus's henchmen, Fassbender, and
his daughter, and eventually Clouseau himself escape the dissolving
castle (Clouseau nearly thwarted by the drawbridge), Dreyfus
himself plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on the
castle's pipe organ, laughing insanely and gradually disintegrating.
The castle then disappears entirely, taking Dreyfus with it
and destroying him once and for all (or so it seems).
Returning to Paris, Clouseau is reunited with Olga, who has
dismissed Cato for the evening and intends on completing her
seduction of Clouseau. This is interrupted first by Clouseau's
apparent inability to remove his clothes without a struggle,
and then by Cato, who chooses this time to once more follow
his orders and attack Clouseau and Olga. The consequent struggle
ends when all three are hurled by a reclining bed into the
Seine. Immediately thereafter, a cartoon image of Clouseau
emerges from the water, which has been tinted pink, and begins
swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther
character is waiting below him with a sharp-toothed, open
mouth (a reference to the film Jaws made obvious by the thematic
music).
[edit] Cast
* Peter Sellers as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau
* Herbert Lom as Dreyfus
* Colin Blakely as Alec Drummond
* Leonard Rossiter as Superintendent Quinlan
* Lesley-Anne Down as Olga Bariosova
* Burt Kwouk as Cato
* André Maranne as François
* Richard Vernon as Dr Hugo Fassbender
* Briony McRoberts as Margo Fassbender
* Dick Crockett as The President
* Byron Kane as Secretary of State (based on Henry Kissinger)
* Michael Robbins as Ainsley JarvisCast notes
* Owing to Peter Sellers's heart condition, whenever possible
he would have his stunt double Joe Dunne stand in for him.
Because of director Blake Edwards's preference for shooting
as if viewed from a proscenium, this would occur quite frequently.
* Julie Andrews provided the singing voice for the female-impersonator
"Ainsley Jarvis".[1] The scene in the night club
when Jarvis sings are in many ways similar to scenes in Edwards's
later film Victor/Victoria (1982), in which Andrews plays
a woman pretending to be a man who is a female impersonator.
* Graham Stark, longtime friend of Sellers, once again makes
an appearance in the series, albeit in a small cameo role
as the owner of a small German motel. Since his role as Hercule
LaJoy in A Shot in the Dark, he has since appeared in small
roles in every Pink Panther movie except Inspector Clouseau,
in which Sellers did not play Clouseau.
* Omar Sharif appears, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassin.
* Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated song "Come To Me".
* The role of Olga Bariosova, played by Lesley-Anne Down,
was originally offered to Maud Adams.
* Blake Edwards made a cameo appearance in the background
of the night club scene.
[edit] Production
The Pink Panther Strikes Again was rushed into production
owing to the success of The Return of the Pink Panther.[2]
Blake Edwards had used one of two scripts that he and Frank
Waldman had written for a proposed "Pink Panther"
TV series as the basis for that film, and he used the other
as the starting point for Strikes Again. As a result, it is
the only Pink Panther movie which has a storyline that explicitly
follows on from the previous film.
The film was in production from December 1975 to September
1976, with filming taking place from February to June 1976.[3]
The relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards, never
very good, had seriously deteriorated by the time Strikes
Again was filmed. Sellers was physically in bad shape, and
Edwards says of the actor's mental state: "If you went
to an asylum and you described the first inmate you saw, that's
what Peter had become. He was certifiable."[2]
The character Dr. Fassbender is a rather blatant nod to one
of Seller's earlier films What's New Pussycat? where Sellers
played a character named Dr. Fritz Fassbender.[citation needed]
The original cut of the film ran for 124 minutes, but it was
trimmed down to 103 minutes for theatrical release.[citation
needed] Some of the footage was later used in Trail of the
Pink Panther. Strikes Again was marketed with the tagline
Why are the world's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau?
Why not? Everybody else is. Like its predecessor and subsequent
sequel, the film was considered a box office success.
During the film's title sequence, there are references to
television's Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the films Batman,
King Kong, The Sound of Music (which starred Blake Edwards's
wife, Julie Andrews), Dracula AD 1972, Singin' in the Rain,
Steamboat Bill Jr., and Sweet Charity, putting the Pink Panther
character and the animated persona of Inspector Clouseau into
recognizable events from said movies. There is also a reference
to Jaws (film) in the end-credits sequence. Richard Williams
(later of Roger Rabbit fame) did the animated opening and
closing sequences for the film instead of DePatie-Freleng
Enterprises.
Historic ramifications of the 1972 Munich Olympics, as depicted
in the Spielberg film "Munich", could be argued
as the possible underlying theme of this film. Scenes in Munich
with the worlds top assassins "out-to-get" Clouseau.
[edit] Awards
* The screenwriters, Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman received
a 1977 Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Comedy
Adapted from Another Medium." The film also won a 1978
Evening Standard British Film Award for "Best Comedy."
* "Come To Me", written by Henry Mancini (music)
and Don Black (lyrics), received a 1976 Academy Award nomination
for "Best Song".
* The film was nominated for a 1977 Golden Globe Award for
"Best Motion Picture", and Peter Sellers was nominated
for "Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy".[4]
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| •Création: 24 octobre 2009 |
•Classement: G |
•Durée totale: 1h43 minutes |
| •Creation: October 24th 2009 |
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