Trail of the Pink Panther ex-wife Lady Simone (Capucine). All of these interview scenes provides flashbacks to scenes of earlier Pink Panther films ("The Pink Panther", "A Shot in the Dark", "Return of the Pink Panther", "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", and "Revenge of the Pink Panther"); but Jouvet also interviews Clouseau's father (Richard Mulligan), at his winery in the south of France, providing glimpses of Clouseau's childhood (wherein he is played by Lucca Mezzofanti), and his early career during college, nearly leading him to commit suicide after a girl of his life gets married to another person, especially in the French Resistance (in which
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