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Released
1976 · FILM

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Inspector Clouseau must outwit his deranged former superior, who has escaped a psychiatric ward to launch a deadly scheme that threatens the world, in order to save himself and prevent catastrophe.

“Why are the world's chief assassins after Inspector Clouseau? Why not? Everybody else is.”

Directed by
Blake Edwards
Written by
Frank Waldman, Blake Edwards
Runtime
103 min
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

Charles Dreyfus, having finally lost his temper with Inspector Clouseau's reckless behavior, flees from a psychiatric facility and devises a complex scheme to eliminate Clouseau permanently.

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Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Harry WaxmanScored by Henry ManciniDesigned by Peter Mullins

Box Office

1976 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.6× 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

$33.8M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$33.8M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Der Pink Panther schlägt erneut zude
  • Inspector Clouseau - Der beste Mann bei Interpolde
  • Inspektor Clouseau - Der beste Mann bei Interpolde
  • Inspektor Clouseau, der „beste“ Mann bei Interpolde
  • La Pantera Rosa ataca de nuevoes
  • Quand la panthère rose s'emmêlefr
  • La Pantera Rosa sfida l'ispettore Clouseauit

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