Inspector Clouseau
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Bud Yorkin
Alan Arkin
Delia Boccardo
Frank Finlay
Patrick Cargill
Beryl Reid
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Scotland Yard's Sir Charles Braithwaite discovers that the loot from the Great Train Robbery is being used to finance an even bigger caper and that one of his men may be in collusion with the robbers. He decides to call in Inspector Clouseau of Paris, despite the inspector's reputation as a bungler. Proceeding with confidence, Clouseau goes to the Wormwood Scrubs Prison barbershop to question a captured member of the gang, Addison Steele, while he is giving the warden's mincing son, Clyde, a haircut. There Clouseau is chloroformed, and Steele escapes. The next day, after being outfitted with the latest spy equipment, Clouseau visits the home of Superintendent Weaver and his amorous wife. They attend a local fair, and there Clouseau enters several contests and accidentally kills a gang member sent to murder him. The following evening, Clouseau trails the Weavers' attractive maid, Lisa, to an inn but ends up being drugged by two voluptuous women so that a plaster cast can be made of his face. Upon regaining consciousness, he pursues the two women so exuberantly that he causes a bed to collapse, thereby eliminating another gang member. Sent by Braithwaite to France, Clouseau again meets Lisa and learns that she is an INTERPOL agent also working on the case. Meanwhile, the gang, using their Clouseau masks, simultaneously have robbed 13 banks in Switzerland and hidden the money in candy wrappers loaded aboard a Rhine barge. Although Clouseau eventually kills the Scotland Yard traitor (Weaver) in a free-for-all, both he and Lisa end up on the barge as prisoners of the gang leader, the mincing Clyde. After rejecting a bribe, Clouseau inadvertently sinks the barge by burning a hole in it with his laser beam lighter. The police move in to capture the gang and recover the money, and Clouseau is decorated for his achievement. When he flies to Paris for a rendezvous with Lisa, however, he finds himself seated next to the predatory Mrs. Weaver. The indomitable Inspector Clouseau parachutes from the plane.
Director
Bud Yorkin
Cast
Alan Arkin
Delia Boccardo
Frank Finlay
Patrick Cargill
Beryl Reid
Barry Foster
Clive Francis
John Bindon
Michael Ripper
Tutte Lemkow
Anthony Ainley
Wallas Eaton
David Bauer
Richard Pearson
George Pravda
Eric Pohlmann
Geoffrey Bayldon
Arthur Lovegrove
Kathya Wyeth
Tracey Crisp
Marjie Lawrence
Craig Booth
Julie Croft
Robert Russell
Susan Engel
Will Stampe
Barbara Dana
Crew
Ivy Baker
Jonathan Bates
Depatie-freleng
Norman Dorme
Michael Frewin
William S. Gilmore Jr.
Kip Gowans
Dinah Greet
Arthur Ibbetson
Ernest Kelly
Skeets Kelly
Malcolm King
Terence Morgan Ii
Charles Orme
Lewis J. Rachmil
Wally Schneiderman
John Victor Smith
Michael Stringer
Ken Thorne
Pearl Tipaldi
Gerry Turner
Frank Waldman
Tom Waldman
A. W. Watkins
Robert Watts
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.- Inspector Jacques Clouseau
Trivia
Alan Arkin got the role of Clouseau after Peter Sellers declined to play the part a third time. Last Clouseau film until Sellers returned to the role in 1975.
In the scene where Clouseau is being chased through the cemetery after falling in the plot and disrupting the funeral, you can see a sign on a cross in the lower right part of the screen for a few seconds. The sign reads "Reposite En Pace: Norman LEAR, 1903-1962". This is an in-joke that refers to "All in the Family" creator Norman Lear, who was Director Bud Yorkin's producing partner for many years on shows such as "All in the Family" and "Sanford and Son".
This is the second of two "Pink Panther" movies that does not use the words "Pink Panther" in the film's title.
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Europe. Released in Great Britain in 1968; running time: 96 min. U. S. copyright length: 98 min; also reviewed at 94 min; cut from 105 min (?).
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Summer July 1968
Released in United States Summer July 1968
