The Return of the Pink Panther by his boss, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), who despises him to the point of obsession, but the French government forces Dreyfus to reinstate him. Clouseau joyously receives the news after fending off a surprise attack from his servant Cato (Burt Kwouk), who had been ordered to do so to keep the Inspector on his toes, and duly goes to Lugash. Upon examining the crime scene in the national museum — in which he wrecks several priceless antiquities — Clouseau concludes that the glove implicates Sir Charles Lytton (Christopher Plummer), alias "the notorious Phantom," as the thief. After several
Revenge of the Pink Panther him into a firework warehouse, accidentally activating all the fireworks inside. After the events that occurred in Hong Kong, Douvier and Scallini are arrested. Clouseau is awarded for their arrest by the President of France, and he and Simone spend an evening together. When United Artists spent three months on previews and continuous editing of the previous Pink Panther movie "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (according to Daily Variety in 1976), Edwards decided he would try to salvage any humorous material remaining. He suggested that "Revenge of the Pink Panther" should primarily be made up of this footage and that