The brilliance of Sellers performance is that despite he’s a walking disaster he never loses his own sense of huge self-importance and belief he’s a great detective.
To be fair, aside from 3 different broken pieces of equipment, he still got the lead he needed and was right about the wax as Col Sharkey pointed out. Thinking it was Charles and not Simone is really not his fault, but more a credit to her deception.
3:31 This never fails to make me laugh - never. The 'boing' sound effect, the askew hat and the fact that not one person in the room reacts. Fantastic.
Same with me - and it sent my father into hysterics back in the day. The gag was inspired by the James Finlayson version in Laurel & Hardy in The Hoosegow - when carrying out the inspection and he trips and catches his top hat at the same time on the overhead wire - my father would cry with laughter every time he saw it!
Same. As a kid it would send my Dad and I into hysterics, too. I would rewind it a couple of times to see it again and my Dad actually didn't mind at all. 😅
@@nimueh4298 Freddy was saying that Peter Sellars made it LOOK LIKE it was done on the first take (even if it wasn't), because of his great talent of always looking spontaneous. That was the WHOLE POINT of his comment
Clouseau was always a disaster about to happen, then crash, bam, boom! BTW, the pound to U.S. dollar equivalency is so easy to Google. You could easily find out for yourself. It took me 15 seconds.
Saw this in the theater during its original run. There was a pretty good amount of laughter when Clouseau goes in the wrong direction, building through the other screw-ups -- at times it became hard to hear Sellers' voice over people giggling and gasping to each other -- until the huge metal disk crashes down onto the statue, when there was gigantic laughter and applause.
+Johnny Organ For me, The Pink Panther Strikes Again just about edges out Return of the Pink Panther...but you can't lose with either film! As you say, it's absolute genius. Too funny. I wish I could get my stepson to watch these old gems with me someday but our sense of humor is different
If he were locked in a padded cell out in the middle of nowhere, Clouseau would accidentally destroy it, by blowing it up or something, and somehow walk away completely unharmed.
After seeing the bloopers, you can see this take they were still holding back laughs and smiles, especially before and after the door slides down and back up.
why can't they make things like this anymore. I watch this as a child god knows how many times that even i knew what is coming i still laugh so hard. Peter Sellers was a perfectionist
It is of a time and place that has passed unfortunately. The nice thing is that we can still watch and appreciate it now so easily and that it is still appreciated by multiple generations. Peter Sellers was also one of a kind.
I don't think Chevy Chase comes close to Peter Sellers, his technique is pretty sloppy and he tends to let the audience know he thinks he's funny too, his attitude is often "oh wow isn't me so clumsy? Isn't me so dumb?" like he's mocking the character alongside the audience When Peter Sellers does his slapstick, his characters tend to think "oh I am massively screwing this" and "I have to act professional/like I belong". Clousseau here is a detective first, and the butt of slapstick second. To me, someone with a disability that basically makes me be clumsy just like him, Sellers characters are the perfect balance between relatable and funny. I laugh because the stuff he does could very well happen to me, and I would probably react with the same attitude, and I have also seen other people react in quite the same way when they make a screw up. So like, Sellers wins. He's up there with Buster Keaton.
Christopher Plummer absolutely relished getting to play Sir Charles "Phantom the Litton" in this one...(David Niven wasn't available)... who wouldn't, with Catherine Schell as Lady Litton.. RIP, C.P.
Oh my goodness. I like it when he fells down on the floor with the wax on the floor. And I like it when he pulls the string at the wall and the thing broke the statue off the wall. Very funny!
I saw "Return Of The Pink Panther" at the cinema a few times back in the spring of 1975 and laughed myself silly each time in the same spots...what was funny then is just as funny now......
Esta película la vi cuando era niño. Y cuando la veo nuevamente me hace volver a esos tiempos de inocencia. Me acuerdo que reía sin parar. Y el doblaje que hacían en México para América Latina era muy muy bueno. El casting de voces, la intención de las mismas. Recuerdo con mucho cariño ésta película. Claro que en Chile la dieron por tv cuando Peter Seller ya había fallecido. Gracias a ésta pagina por subir extractos de La Pantera Rosa. Saludos
Clouseau: It is my guess that you will find it is English wax. General: Why? Clouseau: Because your thief is an Englishman. Detective: And how do you know that? Clouseau: It is my business to know that. HA HA!
the man was intuitive, Comedic while on his feet, sizes up a situational, the possibility and acting on upon it. in short, he was funny / fun to watch, entertainment with out force,. Clean, not ugly, no insulting. good stuff. always a joy to see him in action. The Lord Bless him.
Everything I know about movie comedy started with this film and this scene in particular. I saw it at an impressionable age and it imprinted. All other films (in my mind) are compared to this to see how funny they are. It helped shape my erudition and intellect. See the power of film?
“Very ingenious That is where you are wrong. It is my business to know that. I will root him out. “ Even when he says simple little lines, they are hilarious.
