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"
Trail of the Pink Panther trenchcoat reveals a montage of funny clips of Peter Sellers from his five "Pink Panther" films as a tribute to him, while the end credits roll. Sellers died over 18 months before production began, and his performance was constructed from deleted scenes from "The Pink Panther Strikes Again". David Niven appears in the film, reprising a role he first played in the original "The Pink Panther" of 1963. Niven was in the early stages of ALS, and his voice subsequently proved too weak to loop his own dialogue during post-production. He was dubbed by impressionist Rich Little during post-production. Returning