Curse of the Pink Panther reviews. In Lugash, the fabled Pink Panther diamond is stolen. A mysterious woman looking to procure the priceless gem has a tête-à-tête with a man regarding price. Suddenly, Clouseau (having disappeared inexplicably on a plane flight in the previous film) bursts in. The woman shoots the man, then points the gun at Clouseau. His fate is a mystery. Meanwhile, his former superior, Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), is pressured to oversee Operation Paragon and utilize Interpol's fictitious Huxley Huxley 600 computer Aldous to find the world's greatest detective to solve the crime. What the world at large does not
The Return of the Pink Panther of the Pink Panther' is a cheerful escape from all the things that ail us." Gary Arnold of "The Washington Post" called it "a frequently hilarious and generally satisfying return to comic form on the part of Peter Sellers, recreating the role of the hapless but dogged French sleuth." Penelope Gilliatt of "The New Yorker" wrote that Sellers was "working here at his best." The film holds a score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7 out of 10. The film had been released on VHS, Betamax, CED and Laserdisc in the