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Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) escapes from the mental asylum and tries to kill Main Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers). He doesn't succeed at first, and then he takes on another strategy, namely to build a Doomsday machine and need that someone else kills Jacques Clouseau, or Dreyfus will utilise the machine to wipe out whole cities and even whole countries. With about 20-six assassins from all over the globe on his tail, Clouseau decides to observe Dreyfus solitary and put him back in the mental aviary. —Lars J. Aas <larsa@colargol.edb.tih.no>

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The Genius Of Peter Sellers

The inimitable Peter Sellers strikes over again as Master Inspector Jacques Clouseau, in this 4th installment of the classic `Pink Panther' series, `The Pinkish Panther Strikes Again,' directed by Blake Edwards. Given the fact that the assessment of comedy is intrinsically subjective, this picture is arguably laugh for laugh and sight gag for sight gag the funniest of the 5 (followed closely past the 2d of the serial, the hilarious farce, `A Shot In The Dark). In this ane, former Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is about to be released from the mental hospital-- in which he has resided since being driven crazy by Clouseau-- when on the very afternoon of his hearing he is visited by none other than Clouseau himself, who has come up to speak on behalf of his former dominate. Suffice to say that by the time Clouseau is through `helping,' he is driven from the premises by the relapsed, raving madman, Dreyfus. And information technology'south only the showtime of the inept French Inspector'due south antics that, before it is over, will include a trip to the Ocktoberfest, encounters with a dozen hit-men from around the world, a beautiful Russian spy named Olga (Lesley-Anne Downward), a surprise Egyptian spy (who will remain nameless) and a one-man assault on a castle. As Laurel and Hardy proved so many times earlier, for every activity there is a reaction; a theorem of which proof is unequivocally provided here past the relationship between Sellers and Lom. This was the moving picture in which Edwards and his stars non only further devised, but honed to perfection, their foolproof formula for laughs: After the `commencement wave' of hilarity provided by Sellers, it is followed upwards-- in only enough instances to be totally effective-- by Lom's reaction to 1.) Sellers straight (equally in the outset, classic scene at the mental hospital), or 2.) Lom'south reaction to Seller'due south antics every bit they are related to him by a third party. Information technology's a one-ii dial that never fails and which, in upshot, derives twice the fun from a unmarried gag. And it's brilliant. Simply at the finish of the day, information technology must be noted that there is ane element above all else that accounts for the success of this film, and that, of course, is the Homo himself, Peter Sellers. Sellers must be regarded equally-- if non `the,' then at to the lowest degree ane of the-- funniest actors ever to grace the silver screen. At that place was no end to the means he could brand you express mirth; from the subtlest expression-- an eye averted or perhaps the slight raising of an eyebrow-- to the broadest slapstick, information technology was all within his personal domain, and he was the Master. Physically, practically all he had to practise to get a laugh was show upwards; consider the scene in which he arrives at the hospital to visit Dreyfus: As he saunters across the lawn of the vast grounds surrounding the buildings, a croquet mallet and ball lying to i side catches his centre; there is just the slightest hesitation in his step, the subtlest change of expression in his eyes and the merest inclination of the head. And there, in that briefest of moments upon the screen, yous know-- beyond the shadow of a doubt-- what is about to transpire. And you're right; a moment later Clouseau has the mallet in his paw and his pes on the brawl, and even as it's happening-- just as you knew information technology would in that split second before it did-- he has you lot on the flooring laughing. That was the gift-- and the genius-- of Peter Sellers. Was every film he made a classic? A great picture? Of course not; but yous would exist difficult put to find a single performance of his, even in a bad film (Like 1970's `There's A Girl In My Soup'), that did not embody that unique spark that defined him. It was certainly live in his portrayal of Clouseau (possibly the definitive Seller'south graphic symbol), and in retrospect, what a shame information technology seems that there were only five `Panther' movies e'er made. But then it is, and shall e'er be. The supporting cast includes Burt Kwouk (as the ever faithful and attacking manservant, Cato), Andre Maranne (Francois), Colin Blakely (Alec Drummond), Leonard Rossiter (Inspector Quinlan), Richard Vernon (Dr. Fassbender), Briony McRoberts (Margo) and Michael Robbins (Jarvis). A funny movie that showcases one of Movie theater'southward truly unique and funny actors, `The Pink Panther Strikes Again' is a side-splitting, fun movie yous can watch over and over and never grow tired of. The best of the series, it stands every bit a glowing tribute to the comedic genius of Peter Sellers. I charge per unit this one 10/10.

• jhclues
• Jan 3, 2001

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