The last film to feature original footage of Peter Sellers as Jacques Clouseau, and the weakest.
A multinational conglomerate and the mob all want Clouseau dead, and they think they have succeeded in killing him, so he teams with the company's boss' (Robert Webber) former secretary Simone (Dyan Cannon) to catch the bad guys in Hong Kong. There is an over-reliance on Clouseau in disguise, perhaps to hide an ailing Sellers, who suffered from a heart condition and died at the young age of 55 just two years after this film's release. The rest of this just is not very funny, or interesting. Followed by "Trail of the Pink Panther."
Stats:
(1978) 99 min. (4/10)
-Directed by Blake Edwards
-Screenplay by Frank Waldman & Bob Clark and Blake Edwards, Story by Blake Edwards
-Cast: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Tony Beckley, Robert Loggia, Paul Stewart, Andre Maranne, Graham Stark, Alfie Bass, Sue Lloyd, Danny Schiller
(PG)
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