![]() ![]() Revenge of the pink panther play skin#After dabbling with Dudley Moore as a potential successor (who wouldn’t agree to do more than one film), as well as Rowan Atkinson (MGM refused this choice due to Atkinson being unknown outside of the UK at the time) and John Ritter (who was committed to “Three’s Company” at the time, but would later work with Edwards for his 1989 comedy, Skin Deep), the studio decided to go with a relatively unknown American actor, Ted Wass, who Edwards enjoyed from his appearances as Danny Dallas on the TV sitcom, “Soap”.īlake Edwards has already tried to do a spin-off film called The Ferret which originally was meant for Dudley Moore, featuring a slapstick spy caper with the protagonist as a “Harold Lloyd” type. The biggest novelty of Curse of the Pink Panther (which was the original title of 1978’s Revenge of the Pink Panther before they changed it) is that it attempts to introduce us to a replacement for the Inspector Clouseau character after the death of his beloved portrayer, Peter Sellers, who died in 1980.
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