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Released
1978 · FILM

Revenge of the Pink Panther

When Inspector Jacques Clouseau is declared dead, he covertly returns from the shadows to outwit his hidden enemies and uncover who tried to kill him before they can strike again.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the movies.

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Runtime
99 min
ComedyCrimeMystery

Synopsis

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is presumed dead after a body is found in his car following a shooting incident. The world, including Charles Dreyfus, believes he has been killed. Unbeknownst to them, Clouseau is very much alive and uses his apparent death to investigate the reason behind the assassination attempt on his life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alan JonesShot by Ernest DayScored by Henry ManciniDesigned by Peter Mullins

Box Office

1978 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$49.6M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$49.6M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Inspector Clouseau - Der irre Flic mit dem heißen Blickde
  • Inspector Clouseau - Der irre Flick mit dem heißen Blickde
  • Inspektor Clouseau - Der irre Flic mit dem heißen Blickde
  • La venganza de la Pantera Rosaes
  • La Malédiction de la panthère rosefr
  • La vendetta della Pantera Rosait

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