The Pink Panther Film Collection [7 Discs]The Pink Panther Film Collection [7 Discs]

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MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

    All the Peter Sellers classics, plus a few more! The bumbling and incompetent police inspector with the French Surete features in the Collector's Edition of The Pink Panther (Peter Sellers. 1963/113 min.), A Shot in the Dark (Peter Sellers. 1964/102 min.), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Peter Sellers. 1976/103 min.), Revenge of the Pink Panther (Peter Sellers. 1978/104 min.), the posthumously released Trail of the Pink Panther (Peter Sellers. 1982/96 min.), Curse of the Pink Panther (Ted Wass. 1983/109 min.) and Son of the Pink Panther (Roberto Benigni. 1993/93 min.). 7 DVDs. NR/fullscreen & widescreen.

DVD FEATURES:
  • Region: 1
  • Number of Discs: 7
  • Audio: Dolby Digital Surround
  • Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
  • Features:
    • cc
    • The Pink Panther Collector's Editon:
    • Featurettes and audio commentary by Blake Edwards
    • All other films:
    • None specified
AWARDS
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  •     Nominated Best Song - 1976 (Don Black, Henry Mancini)
  •     Nominated Best Original Score - 1964 (Henry Mancini)
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  •     Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comed - 1976 (Peter Sellers)
  •     Nominated Best Picture - Musical or Comedy - 1976
  •     Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comed - 1964 (Peter Sellers)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
REVIEWS:
  • A comic masterpiece from beginning till end, A Shot in the Dark is not only the funniest film in the Pink Panther series, but also one of the funniest movies, period! Skillfully imagined by Peter Sellers and director Blake Edwards (with help from future horror scribe William Peter Blatty), the Inspector Clouseau character is boosted to the spotlight with this entry, delivering magical timing in endless impeccably dimwitted situations. If Edwards knows one thing, it's how to stage comedy, and his uncanny grasp of slapstick never worked better than here. The story works as a mystery as well, though the film is mainly propelled by its mad pacing and reoccurring gags. Sellers' work is subtle genius and a sad reminder of what his wild characterization of Clouseau was missing later in the series. With inspired supporting roles filled by a twitchy Herbert Lom, charming sex appeal delivered by the ravishing Elke Sommer, and Burt Kwouk making his debut as the deadly manservant Kato, A Shot in the Dark works even when Sellers hasn't been given the punch line. Additionally, Henry Mancini's score is a joy and makes for a playful '60s soundtrack that's as much a character as anyone in the film. Sellers would return in 1974's The Return of the Pink Panther, but only after Alan Arkin had his shot at the role in the dreadful 1968 follow-up Inspector Clouseau. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
  • Comic genius Peter Sellers died two years after making this film. But he went out with a bang--16 of them, in fact. That's how many times his enemies try to assassinate his character, French detective Jacques Clouseau, in this 1978 production. Clouseau's own boss, Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), makes two of the attempts. Throughout the Pink Panther series of films, Clouseau's ineptitude repeatedly drives Dreyfus to the brink of insanity, and Dreyfus lies awake at night plotting Clouseau's murder. In this production, Clouseau pretends that an assassination attempt has succeeded. After he is declared dead, Dreyfus cries tears of joy as he delivers a eulogy. Meanwhile, Clouseau goes sleuthing in disguise to solve his own murder and corral drug-traffickers. From an artistic standpoint, the script of this film is inferior to the scripts of earlier Pink Panther films, for it is really a series of sketches spotlighting Sellers' talents. However, to fans of Sellers, these sketches are among the best--or possibly even be the best--in the entire series of Pink Panther films. In one scene, Sellers shops at a "spy store" for disguises and ends up detecting as a peg-legged sailor with an inflatable parrot, a pinstriped gangster, a priest, and dwarf painter Toulouse Lautrec. Mayhem, mishap, and destruction follow Clouseau everywhere: He explodes a bomb, accidentally sets Dreyfus's office on fire, gets his peg leg stuck in a knothole at a crucial moment, and falls through a floor after a martial-arts romp with his valet Cato (Burt Kwouk). For fans of Sellers, this is a must-have film in spite of its weaknesses. ~ Mike Cummings, Rovi
  • Filled with brilliant lunacy and over-the-top comedic flourishes, The Pink Panther Strikes Again delivers the absurd goods for which the series is known. Played even broader than its predecessors, Strikes Again finds Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) in the super-spy role pitted against his incredibly evil nemesis Dreyfus (Herbert Lom. In one wacky moment after the next, Sellers throws subtlety out the window to match the film's exaggerated tone -- a tactic well-suited for delivering even more immediate laughs from the bumbling hero. The slo-mo kung fu scene is unbelievably funny, as are the moments in the interrogation scene, which border on Clouseau's best. As far as the supporting cast, Lom hams it up in his wide-eyed Bond villain role, while Lesley-Anne Down makes the screen sizzle every time her Russian minx character appears. With a cartoon-like bouncy feel to it, The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the perfect idiocy for the slapstick soul. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
  • One of the most successful franchises of the 1960s and 1970s, director Blake Edwards' Pink Panther movies were a hit from their first installment, in 1964. The film introduced many of the series' hallmarks: Peter Sellers' endearingly inept Inspector Clouseau; the lanky animated pink panther of the credit sequences; and Henry Mancini's instantly recognizable score. Clouseau is a more minor role here than he would be in the future. Sellers' scene-stealing work -- in a part originally intended for Peter Ustinov -- secured him starring status in the subsequent films. His sense of comic timing is unparalleled, in both dialogue delivery and physical humor. Though The Pink Panther isn't as funny as its sequel, A Shot in the Dark (also from 1964), Edwards gives the screwball humor an effortless feel. Such farce was a departure for Edwards, previously best-known for the bittersweet Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and the somber Days of Wine and Roses (1962). The Pink Panther would be followed by eight sequels of varying casts and quality and a popular television cartoon. ~ Brendon Hanley, Rovi

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