Originally posted by: Blackjack
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"
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!
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