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"
The Pink Panther (1963 film) Cardinale. If not for Sellers' hilarious pratfalls, "The Pink Panther" could be mistaken for a luxuriant caper movie like "Topkapi" ... which is precisely what makes the movie so funny. It acts as the straight man, while Sellers gets to play mischief-maker. The film holds an approval rating of 90% on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews with an average rating of 7.3/10. The American Film Institute listed "The Pink Panther" as No. 20 in its 100 Years of Film Scores. The soundtrack album was released on RCA Victor, and consisted of music written by Henry