Synopsis
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
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Cast
- David NivenSir Charles Litton
- Herbert LomChef Inspektor Charles Dreyfus
- Richard MulliganClouseau's Father
- Joanna LumleyMarie Jouvet
- CapucineLady Simone Litton
- Peter SellersChief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)
- Julie AndrewsCharwoman
- Robert LoggiaBruno Langois
- Burt KwoukCato Fong
- Harvey KormanProf. Auguste Balls
Recommendations
- 75
Miami Herald
Though even Blake Edwards, the director behind the Panthers, could not make the connective material in this film work well, there is so much joy in the vintage Sellers that Trail of the Pink Panther rates as one of the funniest films of this year. Sellers' outtakes are funnier than most of the new material on film today. We shall not see the like of him again soon. [21 Dec 1982, p.C7] - 70
The New York Times
The Trail of the Pink Panther is less a conventional comedy than an uproarious retrospective devoted to the particular achievements of the Edwards-Sellers collaboration. Some of the routines seem totally new to me, and others are familiar, but either way, most of them are huge fun, and a couple approach greatness. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The plot creaks along reasonably effectively and Sellers' solo sequences - the disguises, the pratfalls and the speech mannerisms - are familiar, but fun. [18 Dec 1982] - 40
IGN
As a whole the film was funny, but the lack of a living lead, led Trail to being more about the editing than the story. - 37
Washington Post
Recommended only to moviegoers so indiscriminately fond of the Panther series and starved for belly laughs that they consider it a privilege to watch director Blake Edwards sort through his old footage and sweep up after himself. If your indulgence is less than open-ended, this lame attempt to scrape a "new" feature out of a filmmaking backlog is likely to seem more deplorable than diverting. [18 Dec 1982, p.C4] - 30
Variety
A patchwork of out-takes, reprised clips and new connective footage, Trail of the Pink Panther is a thin, peculiar picture unsupported by the number of laughs one is accustomed to in this series. Stitched together after Peter Sellers' death, this is by a long way the slightest of the six Inspector Clouseau efforts. - 20
TV Guide Magazine
While the master is at work, there are laughs galore, but the film nonetheless constitutes cheap exploitation of the memory of a man who convulsed audiences for years. - 20
Newsweek
A sad spectacle: it feels like an advertisement, but what is left to sell? [27 Dec 1982, p.62]
