Product Description: Peter Sellers strikes again in five classic comedy films plus a bonus DVD! Includes: DISK 1 The Pink Panther DISK 2 A Shot In The Dark DISK 3 The Pink Panther Strikes Again DISK 4 Revenge Of The Pink Panther DISK 5 Trail Of The Pink PantherBonus DiscBehind the Scenes Documentary - "The Pink Panther Story"Pink Panther Cartoon Theatre: - Includes New Documentary and Six Original Cartoons"Behind the Feline: The Cartoon Phenomenon" Documentary"The Pink Phink" - "Pink Plunk Plink""Psychedelic Pink" - "Pinkfinger""The Ant and the Aardvark""The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation"System Requirements: Running Time 520 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 027616902887 Manufacturer No: 1006065
Amazon.com essential video: Cue the Henry Mancini music and watch out for Cato--the gist of the Pink Panther series has been gathered in a six-disc boxed set. At the center of it is Peter Sellers's incarnation of inspector Jacques Clouseau, a hopelessly bumbling detective with a genius for resting his hands in the wrong place (on the surface of a spinning globe, for instance) and mangling the English language.
Writer-director Blake Edwards cast Peter Ustinov as Clouseau in The Pink Panther, but Ustinov dropped out just before shooting began. Edwards (who recounts this story in a spotty commentary track included here) and Sellers bonded over their affection for Laurel and Hardy, and immediately transformed the character of Clouseau into a walking sight gag. The first film has a delicious swinging sixties vibe, while jewel thief David Niven, Claudia Cardinale, and Capucine occupy as much screen time as Sellers. Sellers really hits his stride in A Shot in the Dark, an elegantly funny tale of Clouseau sleuthing out a murder investigation. This one introduced Herbert Lom, as the increasingly frazzled Inspector Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouk, as Clouseau's houseboy-nemesis Cato. Sellers and Edwards, whose relationship was stormy, put Clouseau aside for over 10 years, until a trilogy of mid-1970s comedies restored the character to commercial (and dare we say cultural) primacy.
Unfortunately, the very funny comeback picture, Return of the Pink Panther, is absent from this set due to rights issues with the studios involved. The Pink Panther Strikes Again has Dreyfus going bananas and targeting Clouseau; Revenge of the Pink Panther puts Clouseau in a hilarious series of disguises, climaxing in a wonderfully mounted sequence in Hong Kong. (Throughout the series, the calm, classical staging of gags by Blake Edwards reminds you of what a lost art this has become.) Trail of the Pink Panther looks better now than it did when originally released in 1982, shortly after Sellers's death; it's a batch of unused Sellers routines from previous pictures, strung together with a loose plot. In other words, it's a "deleted scenes" extra, and quite funny at times.
Subsequent efforts Curse of the Pink Panther and Son of the Pink Panther are neither included nor mentioned. A half-hour documentary gives pleasant memories from Edwards, but feels incomplete. The cartoon Panther gets his own 11-minute mini-doc, plus six cartoon shorts including the Oscar-winning "The Pink Phink." --Robert Horton
Still laughing ! I had forgotten how funny these movies were and how marvelously inept and arrogant the inspector was. I think I laughed as hard at the chase scene in the Pink Panther as I did when I first saw it. I am sharing this collection with people who are not old enough to have seen them when they came out. They find them as hilarious as I do.
would have been 5 if return had been here instead of Trail. I am going to toss trail of into some generic box and insert Return of the Pink in the case,THEN I will have a TRUE Pink Panther collection. Otherwise all the reviews are right about quality and the worth of the body of art.
"3 movies not included." This is a great collection but it doesn't include "The Son Of The Pink Panther","The Curse Of The Pink Panther" and "The Return Of The Pink Panther".So,when they say the pink panther collection starring peter sellers,they are really lying.(Because The Return Of The Pink Panther stars Peter Sellers,but is not in the collection.Overall,it is a great collection withe tons of gags and laughs.If you like the classic pink panther movies I would definitly recommend it.
Excellant! Even though I ordered The Pink Panther Film Collection (The Pink Panther / A Shot in the Dark / Strikes Again / Revenge of / Trail of) for my Dad a little bit later then I should have, it was still here by Christmas AND it was exactly what I had ordered.
Pink Panther This was one collection that I have been missing since I was introduced to the Series. Plus, I got it for a Combo price which was just "Awesome". Definitely recommend this collection for Comedy Lovers.
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