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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) More at IMDbPro »

• One trailer for this film consisted entirely of bloopers.
  
  
• During the opening credits, one of the movies parodied is The Sound of Music (1965), which starred Blake Edwards' wife, Julie Andrews.
  
  
• Lesley-Anne Down was cast as Olga by mistake. Blake Edwards meant to audition Nicola Pagett, who played Elizabeth Bellamy on "Upstairs, Downstairs" (1971), but instead auditioned Ms. Down, who played Georgia Worsley on later episodes of that same series. Julie Andrews commented that she didn't look like the actress in the series, but Edwards wrote it off to lighting and make-up.
  
  
• The title of this film is misleading, as the "Pink Panther" - the large diamond featured in the first Clouseau Pink Panther movies, The Pink Panther (1963) and The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) - is not featured (or even mentioned) in this film. By the 1970s, the name "Pink Panther" had become so synonymous with Inspector Clouseau - and the animated panther featured in the opening credits - that all future Clouseau films would include "Pink Panther" in the title.
  
  
• First film of Deep Roy.
  
  
• The screenplay for this film was written by Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards as one of two possible screenplays (the other being the screenplay that became The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)) for the proposed Pink Panther TV series. After The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) turned out to be a success, Edwards decided to make the unused screenplay into this film.
  
  
• Blake Edwards's original cut ran 124 minutes, and was submitted to the British Board of Film Censors in 1976. Afterward, the film was cut to 103 minutes. That version was shown in cinemas, on VHS, and on DVD. Most of the scenes cut involved Sellers journey to, and arrival in, in England. The 124 min original cut has never surfaced, but a large chunk of the deleted footage forms the basis of Sellers' scenes in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982). The scenes include: _Peter Sellers in the car on the way to the airport, Sellers on a plane to England (excerpts can be seen in the trailer), Sellers meeting the English police at the airport, and an extended version of the existing scene of Sellers going into his apartment near the beginning of the film, with rice flying everywhere.
  
  
• Lesley-Anne Down replaced Maud Adams.
  
  
• The deleted scenes involving Harvey Korman's character "Balls" ended up in the film Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), which was made after Peter Sellers' death.
  
  

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