last i heard, ALL of the footage used in "trail" is from "Strikes Again", except the scene where clouseau nearly burns his office with the newspaper-that would fit in "Return"

Yep, I think you are right about most of the footage coming from "Strikes Again".

What I was contemplating as a second installment to this project was a type of re-edit and combining of "Trail of the Pink Panther" with "Curse of the Pink Panther".

Did I just hear a grone?

The idea was that I could try and hopefully make one less atrocious film out of the fragments of two very, very atrocious films.

Herbert Lom and a much better assortment and editing of the Peter Seller’s best of segments would hopefully be the saving grace of this fan edit.

I would need to cut some painful scenes with actor Richard Mulligan, and the young Clouseau played by some bad imposter. My fan edit would be more of a wrap up short-story to the series and, be a much more respectful homage to Peter Sellers then the insulting mess that was done by Edwards and MGM/UA back in the early 1980's. The attempt to continue and milk the franchise by stretching things so thin as to make two features without any "new" input from Peter Sellers (only by the use cut footage), and to attempt to build an overly contrived new plotline for the series was just a total disaster. In 1982, the two films had been taken by movie audiences of the time as in "Bad Taste" and a "Rip Off".

So True!


FF

"Thank Heaven, for Little Girls"

This edit will have a basic plot, but not one with so much over the top and needless "bad" and "forced" humor.

The object here is to wrap the "Panther" series up with a short story, and to pay a simple tribute to what Sellers had done in his installments.
It's a fan edit ment to be placed into a fans dvd player when he/she wants to just crack up to the "Best of Clouseau" without the dead weight of 2 (or is it 3) needless and stupid go no place sub-plots. With the use of branching the DVD program, you will be able to view the flashback clips with a sub-story, or without one.

This is not going to be some major plot that revolves around a replacement detective.
It will be a more compact "move along" plot, with more flash backs (from "Return of The Pink Panther" too), and now without the bad low-budget music overdubed for "Trail".

You know, I don't want to give too much away, but Inspector Clouseau will now have vanished sooner in this edit. Some of the events from Curse will now happen inter-cut with events from Trail. A good deal of the reporter's scenes will now be cut out or be re-sequenced. There will be no over-blown mafia subplot in this edit.

If this project turns out the way I hope it will, I'll need some people to give it a pre-view.

FF

That is so kewl!

"The Pink Panther Strikes Again" titles are the best of the "Panther" series!

I did not like the titles or music for "Trail" or "Curse" at all. Do you think I should use a mix/edit of all the past titles, or make some all new animated titles by me and my friend? what would be best? We did the blue eyes for DUNE, so how hard can moving a panther and small man around some new titles be?

"Facets of the Pink Panther"

The Pink Panther: Re-cut Gems

This should be a great project. I'd live to see this in the same style as the MGM six-pack that came out a few years ago. They just looked good.

Thanks for all the title ideas, and the suport for this project!

This should be fun.


At this point, I think I will stay with "Facets of the Pink Panther" for the compilations title.

The Pink Panther is a diamond, and diamonds have "facets". If we were looking at a collection of clips from past Pink Panther films, we would be viewing different "facets" of the Pink Panther films.

FF

this would be very interesting to see.
By the way, I don't know if your aware of this, as the release was not publicly announced, But "Return of the Pink Panther" has a new Anamorphic release from Universal (as opposed to the letterboxed artisan release). that way you'd be getting equal quality frames for the Clouseau character.

I attempted this myself about a year ago but failed because the resolution of the discs were really wonky. I've since learned Gordian Knot for resizing video so if you run into issues, drop me a line and I'll see if I can help. Glad somebody else is taking up this project.

Ronen:
You have to go into your settings here on the board and turn PMs on first. It's a silly default that stops all new users from receiving PMs straight away.

Fanfiltration, just wanted to say I am interested in this idea of yours and hope that you can go through with it (find the best-quality DVDs before starting).

I'm now looking over the DVDs in the Pink Panther box set, and I've forgotten just how bad "Trail" was.

For the "Return" footage, I have the new 2006 DVD on order.

FF

Just got done with the extended edit of "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", and I am now starting the work on the "Trail" / "Curse" edit.

More to come....

FF

UPDATE:

"Trail" and "Curse" are just too horrible! I'm not going to do an edit of them.
The jokes are so dated and the story is so boring... There is just no point.
I'll make a set with extended versions of "Strikes Again" and "Return of", and that's all.

"Trail", "Curse" and "Son of" need to be lost forever.


FF