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Title: Death of the Pink Panther
Review: When Peter Sellers died in 1980, "The Pink Panther" series died with him. Unfortunately, director Blake Edwards thought otherwise and, in a ghoulish enterprise, tried to fashion a new "Panther" movie with Sellers' outtakes. It doesn't work. The outtakes are OK, but they would have succeeded better in a Sellers anthology or documentary. By the halfway mark, Edwards runs out of Sellers material and the film's contrived narrative comes to an abrupt halt. "Trail of the Pink Panther" is ultimate proof that you cannot resurrect a corpse from the cutting-room floor. It's interesting to note that Sellers' widow sued MGM/UA for this artistic desecration of her husband's comic legacy - and won.
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