Son of the Pink Panther Panther films. Gambrelli closes the film with the line: "That felt good!" following by the image of Gambrelli freezing as the animated Pink Panther walks across the still of Jacques, until an animated Gambrelli suddenly cuts away the head of live-action Gambrelli and pops out of the hole, dropping the head on the Panther's foot; the enraged Panther chases him into fading blackness. Note: Claudia Cardinale played the Princess in the original "Pink Panther" film. Here she returns as Maria Gambrelli, the part originally played by Elke Sommer in "A Shot in the Dark". This was the first "Pink Panther"
Curse of the Pink Panther not as successful as the first. More than two decades later, Ted Wass would direct co-star Robert Wagner in episodes of "Two and a Half Men". Curse of the Pink Panther Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 British comedy film and a continuation of "The Pink Panther" series of films started by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s. The film was one of two produced concurrently following the death of the series' star Peter Sellers. Whereas the previous film "Trail of the Pink Panther" made use of unused footage of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, "Curse" attempted to relaunch