The Pink Panther Strikes Again Clouseau prompts a relapse which cancels Dreyfus's planned discharge, but he soon escapes anyway and organizes an elaborate plot to threaten the countries of the world with annihilation by a large laser if they do not assassinate Clouseau for him. Unused footage from the film was later included in "Trail of the Pink Panther" (1982), after Sellers' death. At a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is largely recovered from his obsession to kill the new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is about to be released when Clouseau, arriving to speak on Dreyfus' behalf, within
Curse of the Pink Panther not as successful as the first. More than two decades later, Ted Wass would direct co-star Robert Wagner in episodes of "Two and a Half Men". Curse of the Pink Panther Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 British comedy film and a continuation of "The Pink Panther" series of films started by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s. The film was one of two produced concurrently following the death of the series' star Peter Sellers. Whereas the previous film "Trail of the Pink Panther" made use of unused footage of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, "Curse" attempted to relaunch