Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
"Why are the world's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is."
Top Billed Cast
Peter Sellers
Chief Inspector Clouseau
Herbert Lom
Dreyfus
Leonard Rossiter
Quinlan
Colin Blakely
Drummond
Graham Stark
Hotel Clerk
Byron Kane
Secretary of State
Dick Crockett
President
Richard Vernon
Fassbender
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
C Charles DanceVerified TMDB Critic
2017-02-14
**The best of the Panther films**
As much James Bond film as Pink Panther movie, this 1976 entry begins with _former_ Chief Inspector Dreyfus, (Herbert Lom) about to be released from the lunatic asylum and all is going well - until _Chief Inspector_ Clouseau turns up...
Within minutes, the newly sane _former_ police commissioner Dreyfus is reduced to a _gibbering maniac_ - hell bent on destroying the world unless the authorities deliver Clouseau to him.
The following 90 minutes consist of an inflatable Quasimodo hovering above Notre Dame cathedral, an absurd fight with an 'oriental ...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2024-04-22
Imagine poor old "Dreyfus" (Herbert Lom). Once the proud chief detective of the Sûreté now reduced to trying to convince his psychiatrist that he is over his kill-Clouseau phase and is ready to resume his place in society. Guess who turns up to wish him well at his hearing in front of the sanity commission...? Oops! Back to square one. Scoot on a bit and "Dreyfus" is now so obsessed with revenge that he has assembled a gathering of criminal minds that would make "Spectre" looks like the boy scouts. He issues the world with an ultimatum. Deliver "Clouseau" or face the imminent destruction of ...
