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{{Infobox film
| name = Revenge of the Pink Panther
| image = Revenge_of_the_pink_panther_ver3.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Blake Edwards]]
| producer = Blake Edwards '''Animation:''' [[David H. DePatie]] [[Friz Freleng]]
| screenplay = [[Frank Waldman]] [[Ron Clark (writer)|Ron Clark]] Blake Edwards
| story = Blake Edwards
| starring = [[Peter Sellers]] [[Herbert Lom]] [[Robert Webber]] [[Dyan Cannon]]
| music = [[Henry Mancini]] [[Leslie Bricusse]] (songwriter)
| cinematography = [[Ernest Day]]
| editing = Alan Jones
| studio = [[United Artists Corporation]] Sellers-Edwards Productions Jewel Productions Pimlico Films
| distributor = [[United Artists]]
| released = {{Film date|1978|7|13|London premiere|1978|7|14|London|1978|7|20|United States}}<ref name=AFI>{{AFI film|id=56986|title=Revenge of the Pink Panther}}</ref>
| runtime = 98 minutes
| country = United Kingdom United States
| language = English
| budget = $12,000,000
| gross = $49.5 million (US)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=revengeofthepinkpanther.htm|publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]|title=Revenge of the Pink Panther, Box Office Information|access-date=June 25, 2012}}</ref>
}}

'''''Revenge of the Pink Panther''''' is a 1978 [[comedy film]]. It is the sixth film in ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' comedy film series. Released in 1978, it is the final on-set performance of Inspector [[Jacques Clouseau]] by Peter Sellers, who died in 1980. It was also the last instalment in the series that was distributed solely by United Artists.

== Plot ==
Philippe Douvier ([[Robert Webber]]), a major businessman and secretly the head of the [[French Connection]], is suspected by his New York Mafia drug trading partners of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier's aide Guy Algo ([[Tony Beckley]]) suggests a show of force with the murder of the famous Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau ([[Peter Sellers]]).

Unfortunately for Douvier, his first attempt at bombing Clouseau fails, and the subsequent attempt by Chinese martial artist whose name is 'Mr. Chong' (an uncredited appearance by the founder of [[American Kenpo]], [[Ed Parker]]) is thwarted when Clouseau successfully fights him off (believing him to be Clouseau's [[valet]] Cato ([[Burt Kwouk]]), who has orders to keep his employer alert with random attacks).

Douvier tries again by posing as an informant to lure Clouseau into a trap, but the Chief Inspector's car and clothes are stolen by [[transvestite]] criminal Claude Russo ([[Sue Lloyd]]), who is unknowingly instead killed by Douvier's men.

Subsequently, Douvier and the French public believe that Clouseau is dead; as a result of this assumption, Clouseau's ex-boss, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus ([[Herbert Lom]]), is restored to sanity and is released from the lunatic asylum to perform the investigation (despite having committed several major crimes and then seemingly disintegrated in the [[The Pink Panther Strikes Again|previous film]]).

In Russo's clothes and insisting on his true identity, Clouseau is taken to the asylum himself but escapes into Dreyfus' room, who faints from the shock of seeing Clouseau alive. Clouseau manages to disguise himself as Dreyfus and is driven home by François ([[André Maranne]]).

At home, Clouseau finds Cato, who, despite having turned Clouseau's apartment into a Chinese-themed [[brothel]], is relieved to see that he survived and the two plan [[revenge]] on the sponsor of Clouseau's [[assassination]]. Meanwhile, Dreyfus is assigned to read a [[eulogy]] at Clouseau's funeral by the police chief's wife, in pain of his own discharge.

During the eulogy, Dreyfus efforts trying not to laugh hysterically at the untrue words that praise Clouseau's brilliance causing everyone including the chief's wife to think he actually devastated about Clouseau's demise. At the cemetery, Clouseau attends the burial, disguised as a priest, and then surreptitiously reveals himself to Dreyfus, who recognizes him, faints, and falls into the grave. Clouseau escapes.

Meanwhile, due to his unfaithfulness, Douvier's wife threatens him with divorce. Needing her respectability, Douvier tells his secretary and paramour Simone LeGree ([[Dyan Cannon]]) that their relationship is over, to which Simone reacts angrily. Fearing that she will reveal his crimes, Douvier gives orders to have Simone killed at her nightclub, but having been told by an informant ([[Alfie Bass]]) of the possibility of trouble there, Clouseau and Cato inadvertently manage to save her. At Simone's flat, Clouseau reveals his identity, prompting her to reveal that Douvier ordered Clouseau's assassination. Finally, she tells him of Douvier's plan to meet the New York Mafia godfather Julio Scallini ([[Paul Stewart (actor)|Paul Stewart]]) in [[Hong Kong]] for the Gannet Transaction - a $50,000,000 heroin sale.

After evading their pursuers, Clouseau, Cato, and Simone follow Douvier to Hong Kong in disguise, unaware that the now suspicious Dreyfus has followed them. There, Clouseau impersonates Scallini while Simone distracts the real one, but the plan goes awry when one of Scallini's men spots Douvier leaving their hotel with a stranger and Clouseau exposes his own disguise during the Gannet Transaction. In the confusion, Dreyfus, intent on killing Clouseau chases him into a [[Fireworks|firework]] warehouse, accidentally activating all the fireworks inside.

After the events that occurred in Hong Kong, Douvier and Scallini are arrested. Clouseau is awarded for their arrest by the President of France, and he and Simone spend an evening together.

== Cast ==
{{castlist|
* [[Peter Sellers]] as Chief [[Inspector Jacques Clouseau]]
* [[Dyan Cannon]] as Simone Legree
* [[Burt Kwouk]] as Cato Fong
* [[Robert Webber]] as Philippe Douvier
* [[Herbert Lom]] as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus
* [[Tony Beckley]] as Guy Algo
* [[André Maranne]] as Sgt. François Chevalier
* [[Robert Loggia]] as Al Marchione
* [[Paul Stewart (actor)|Paul Stewart]] as Julio Scallini
* [[Graham Stark]] as Prof. Auguste Balls
* [[Alfie Bass]] as Fernet
* [[Sue Lloyd]] as Claude Russo
* [[Douglas Wilmer]] as Police commissioner
* [[Ferdy Mayne]] as Dr. Paul Laprone
* [[Valerie Leon]] as Tanya
* [[Ed Parker]] as Mr. Chong (uncredited)
* [[Adrienne Corri]] as Therese Douvier
* [[Henry McGee]] as Officer Bardot
* [[Andrew Sachs]] as [[Hercule Poirot]]
* [[Julian Orchard]] as Hospital clerk
* [[John Bluthal]] as Guard at cemetery
* [[Frank Williams (actor)|Frank Williams]] as Gentleman client
* [[Rita Webb]] as Woman at window
* Ragbir Sraan as Arab sheikh
}}

== Production ==
When [[United Artists]] spent three months on previews and continuous editing of the previous Pink Panther movie ''[[The Pink Panther Strikes Again]]'' (according to Daily Variety in 1976), Edwards decided he would try to salvage any humorous material remaining. He suggested that ''Revenge of the Pink Panther'' should primarily be made up of this footage and that he would write and shoot new footage around it with Sellers and company. Sellers balked at this and insisted that ''Revenge'' feature all new footage. Sellers' contract for ''Revenge'' gave him story approval, which is why that film carries a story credit for Sellers that none of the previous films had.

The opening animated titles in the film were designed by [[DePatie-Freleng Enterprises]], who had been involved with the series since the animated titles of the original 1963 film, ''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]''.<ref name=whodoneit>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cjuyCQAAQBAJ&q=the+pink+panther+marvel+productions&pg=PA72|title=Whodoneit! A Film Guide|first=Terry|last=Rowan|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=9781312308060|via=Google Books}}</ref> It was the first time since ''[[Inspector Clouseau (film)|Inspector Clouseau]]'' in 1968 that DePatie-Freleng animated the opening titles of a Pink Panther film (''Return'' and ''Strikes Again'' having been done by [[Richard Williams (animator)|Richard Williams]]' Studio).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xe1ZBAAAQBAJ&q=the+pink+panther+show+DePatie-Freleng&pg=PA146|title=The Odd Couple on Stage and Screen: A History with Cast and Crew Profiles and an Episode Guide|first=Bob|last=Leszczak|date=22 August 2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476615394|via=Google Books}}</ref>

The film was shot in [[France]], [[England]] and in [[Hong Kong]] with some scenes filmed at [[The Excelsior (Hong Kong)|The Excelsior]] hotel.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Amanda |last2=Li |first2=Sandy |date=6 June 2017 |title=Mandarin Oriental mulls sale of iconic Excelsior hotel in Hong Kong |url=http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2097070/mandarin-oriental-mulls-sale-iconic-excelsior-hotel-hong-kong |work=[[South China Morning Post]] }}</ref>

This is [[Graham Stark]]'s first appearance as Professor Auguste Balls. He portrays him once more in ''[[Son of the Pink Panther]]'' (1993). [[Harvey Korman]] portrays Professor Balls in footage seen in ''[[Trail of the Pink Panther]]'' (1982).<ref>Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide {{ISBN|9780451468499}}</ref>

==Release==
The film had its world premiere at the [[Odeon Leicester Square]] in London on July 13, 1978<ref name=AFI/> and opened to the public the following day.

It opened in the United States at the [[Ziegfeld Theatre (1969)|Ziegfeld Theatre]] in New York City and at the [[Cinerama Dome]] in Los Angeles on July 19, 1978<ref name=AFI/> before expanding to 387 theatres across the United States.<ref name=opening>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=July 26, 1978|page=5|title='Panther' In 387: Already $5,278,784}}</ref>

===Critical reception===
On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 84% based on 19 reviews, with an average score of 6.70/10.<ref>{{Citation |title=Revenge of the Pink Panther |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/revenge_of_the_pink_panther |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |language=en |access-date=2022-03-19}}</ref>

''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' wrote, "''Revenge of the Pink Panther'' isn't the best of the continuing film series, but Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers on a slow day are still well ahead of most other comedic filmmakers."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1977/film/reviews/revenge-of-the-pink-panther-1200424184/|title=Revenge of the Pink Panther|author=Variety Staff|date=1 January 1978}}</ref> [[Vincent Canby]] wrote in ''[[The New York Times]]'' "If you have the {{sic|Clouzot}} habit, as I have, there's very little that Mr. Edwards and Mr. Sellers could do that would make you find the movie disappointing."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/19/archives/pink-panther-tries-revenge-in-5th-filmfor-the-pun-of-it.html|title=Pink Panther Tries Revenge in 5th Film:For the Pun of It|first=Vincent|last=Canby|date=July 19, 1978|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> One DVD & video guide gave the movie four and a half out of five stars, calling it "arguably the best of the [[slapstick]] series."<ref>Martin, Mick, and Porter, Marsha (2006). ''DVD & Video Guide 2007'', p. 542. Ballantine Books.</ref> In 1979, the film won the ''[[Evening Standard]]'' British Film Award for best comedy.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078163/awards IMDb Awards (1979).]</ref>

===Box office===
The film grossed $62,810 in its first three days at the Odeon Leicester Square.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=July 19, 1978|page=21|title=Revenge Is Sweet (advertisement)}}</ref> On its US release, it grossed $5,278,784 in its first 5 days of release from 387 theatres<ref name=opening/> and $11,004,124 in its first 12 days from 461 theatres in the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 2, 1978|page=6|title=Latest On Panther}}</ref>

== Cancelled sequel ==
''[[The Pink Panther#Romance of the Pink Panther (abandoned)|Romance of the Pink Panther]]'' was a ''Pink Panther'' film that Sellers had written—and willing to make without Edwards—before Sellers' death in July 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/peter-sellers-dies-at-54|title=Peter Sellers Dies at 54 - Interviews - Roger Ebert|first=Roger|last=Ebert|website=www.rogerebert.com}}</ref> UA considered recasting the role before convincing Blake Edwards to return to the series. Edwards chose to replace Clouseau with a new character rather than replace Sellers as Clouseau and to utilize outtakes from ''[[The Pink Panther Strikes Again]]'' to set up a transitional film (''[[Trail of the Pink Panther]]'') with new linking footage shot on the set of the new film (''[[Curse of the Pink Panther]]'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=184948%7C184950&name=Trail-of-the-Pink-Panther|title=Trail of the Pink Panther|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
Composed by [[Henry Mancini]] in his fifth ''Pink Panther'' film, its theme music and much of the soundtrack draw heavily from the [[disco]] trends of the late 1970s. The "[[Pink Panther Theme]]" itself was reworked to include a more dancy bassline, electric piano and guitar solo.

A [[soundtrack album]] for the film was released by [[United Artists Records]].

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* {{Rotten Tomatoes|revenge_of_the_pink_panther}}
* {{tcmdb title|15868}}

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