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
Curse of the Pink Panther sued Edwards for alleged fraudulent overspending in 1984. Shortly after this, Edwards sued MGM for defamation of character. The lawsuits combined for over $1 billion. After much legal wrangling, they were settled out of court in 1988. Wass' option for several sequels was never taken up, though Edwards did start planning what would become "Son of the Pink Panther" around the time of the settlement – but MGM wasn't interested. They went ahead with a TV Movie in 1989 called "The New Pink Panther". Gary Nelson directed Charlie Schlatter as a wise-guy TV reporter investigating an arsonist. Schlatter teams up