![]() ![]() ![]() SON OF THE PINK PANTHER (1993) was Edwards’ last effort to revive the franchise that had given him so much success in the past, but without the presence of Peter Sellers it was not successful. Both films feature some of the saga’s most famous faces: David Niven, Capucine, Robert Wagner, Robert Loggia, Harvey Korman, Burt Kwouk as the Japanese butler Cato, and, of course, Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfuss, Clouseau’s nemesis. In the first film, Joanna Lumley plays a journalist who collects information about the famous inspector, and in CURSE it’s a clumsy American policeman (Ted Was) who is in charge of the investigation. TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER (1982) and CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER (1983) were shot at the same time, and both focus on attempts to explain Clouseau’s mysterious disappearance. Quartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presents a mammoth 3-CD set with Henry Mancini’s (BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, CHARADE, VICTOR/VICTORIA, SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE) complete scores for the last three films in the Pink Panther franchise directed by Blake Edwards but filmed without the inimitable Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau (Sellers died in 1980). ![]()
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