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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
I’m a relative newcomer to the Peter Sellers/Blake Edwards Pink Panther films, having run through them about two years ago in a non-stop marathon covered in my A Movie A Day series. I loved them, even the super flawed ones.
Sellers is fantastic as Clouseau, but even more important to the movies, in my humble opinion, was Herbert Lom’s Dreyfus. That poor, tortured bastard was a joy in even the lamest of the series.
At any rate, I love the flicks, I love Sellers and I love Blake Edwards, so I had to run this pic I found of Sellers goofing off with Blake Edwards. Enjoy!
Here’s the pic! Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic is a little fawlty. Hopefully we’ll get it sorted out.
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
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WOOt
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Sept. 27, 2010, 5:43 p.m. CST
I agree.
by OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW
The Dexter talkback was amazing.
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Sellers: the greatest comedic actor ever? Who else is in the conversation?
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Zimmer.
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That is not my dog.
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Sept. 27, 2010, 5:52 p.m. CST
I remember a GREAT editorial cartoon the day after Sellers croak
by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder
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It was a graveyard smash!
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Sept. 27, 2010, 5:52 p.m. CST
How does an idiot become a police officer, andwer me that!
by Denty420
Is easy, all you do is enlist...
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Sept. 27, 2010, 5:53 p.m. CST
FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder
It was Clouseau, standing at the pearly gates, as a voice boomed out "'RHEUUUUMZ'? WHAT THE HELL IS A 'RHEUUUMZ'?"
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... the notorious pink Lytton.
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Why are you writing on this site again? "I need to use your tellyphoooon." "My what?" "Your tellyphooooooooooon." "My... OH the telephone!" "Yes, that is what I said you silly git!" Or something along those lines, it's been awhile.
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... Atilla the Hun was a Red Cross volunteer.
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Sept. 27, 2010, 5:56 p.m. CST
They aren't goofing off, thats some serious movie making right t
by MyNameisSimon
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And Herbert Lom was absolutely the Margaret Dumont to Sellers' Clouseau. Except he was way funnier than Marge.
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... yes, yes. I was knern as the Pavlerver of the parallels.
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but more important than Sellers? Please turn in your film reviewers card on your way out.
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*thud*<br> Can never resist throwing classic Clouseau quotes whenever the great man in mentioned. I grew up watching this and loving each movie. Won't even watch Martin's take because Sellers already did it perfectly.
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Cover NEWS Damnit! Nobody cares! Yahoo is fucking scooping you on Captain America pics!
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Sept. 27, 2010, 6:07 p.m. CST
Waiting for RPLocke's: "I haven't seen this classic" post
by Flip63Hole
Come on, don't disappoint me...
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...is Cobra--Kai. Congratulations, Cobra--Kai. He wrote a troll list in the TROLLHUNTERS talkback today that is both educational (for new talkbackers) and enlightening. The list shines a light on a dark, dirty, and smelly group of individuals at AICN. Good work. Until tomorrow...
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And only 12-year olds and middle-aged basement dwellers give a shit about Captain America. One of this sites missions for as long as I've been reading it is to celebrate film history, so that ignorant f*cktards like you might learn a little something in between Resident Evil sequels. Quint, keep em coming...LOVING THEM. With the mention of it, you should have taken the opportunity as well to post a link back to your movie-a-day series, which was one of my favorite things about this place evar. Here, ignoramus Holmes, learn something: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38049
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The Academy Awards are retarded.
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I've been proper whooped!
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Sept. 27, 2010, 6:46 p.m. CST
it's TODAY's pic that is fawlty: his leg looks chickeny!
by Tigger Tales
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Sept. 27, 2010, 6:47 p.m. CST
Please see to that beauth the freaunt and the back deaurs are le
by DickBallsworth
...while I slip into my Hunchback disguise kit.
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I was like 10 when I saw it though.
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Sept. 27, 2010, 7:07 p.m. CST
Quint! Think you'll check out "TRAIL", "CURSE" and "SON OF" soon
by Yotz Von Frelnik
I thoroughly enjoyed your reviews of the PP films and am really curious to get your take on the remaining three, "TRAIL-", "CURSE-" and "SON OF THE PINK PANTHER". Generally regarded as awful and pointless without Sellers, I'd enjoy your reaction to these.
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AAAAAAAAAA OOOOOOOOO BAM CRASH BAM CRAAAAAASH OOOOAAAAOOOOOO <P>God damn,that scene in the end of the movie,when he does the aerial kick,he misses Kato and lands in the kitchen on top of the chefs and waiters,is so fucking hilarious.
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THIRTY MINUTES AFTER YOU EAT, YOU'RE FAT
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"Not anymourrre."
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even his worst movies were better than many today
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Dumbest thing ever written
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<p>The best of the "Panther" movies in my opinion. Clouseau's evolution into the bumbling idiot really begins to take shape.</p> <p>In the later films he becomes almost a parody of his earlier character. Not that the later films aren't funny, but Sellers was not interested in simply playing Clousseau the same way over and over so he would continue to "evolve" the character each time.</p> <p>You'll notice there's not a fake nose or costume any where to be found in the first two films. Truly some of the funniest movies ever made.</p>
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Edwards and Sellers oft-overlooked only non-Panther collaboration. A brilliant bit of comedic film making. Easily on par with the greatest of the Panther films. It is a testament to Sellers acting ability that nearly half the film has no dialogue at all.
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was released first and then ASITD.But we had to wait until the 70s when Blake and Peter brought back Clouseau and gave him his definitive and more well-known persona of the bumbling idiot french detective.
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Yeah, The Party was absurd fun.
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why the eff was it live action?
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Sellers' cheif inspector was truly a comedic great! Now, if only I could get an ex-Russian agent too.
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"...That you arrived home, found Miguel with Maria Gambrelli, and killed him in a rit of fealous jage!" STILL funny.
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<p>Though this is a somewhat popular misconception. I wrote my thesis in film school on Sellers and have read numerous books on the man.</p> <p>As IMDB notes "Contrary to the oft-repeated rumor that "A Shot in the Dark" was filmed prior to The Pink Panther (1963), it did not go before the cameras until September of 1963, the same month "The Pink Panther" was being previewed in Hollywood."</p> <p>A Shot in the Dark was actually based on a French stage play named L'Idiote that Edwards ended up turning into a Clousseau vehicle. The film marks the first appearances of future series regulars Dreyfus and Cato.</p>
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Sept. 27, 2010, 11:26 p.m. CST
First time I saw somebody break "The Fourth Wall"...
by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder
..Was "A Shot In The Dark". <p>That moment when Clousseau realizes that he's lost control of the room, everybody is screaming and arguing - And Sellers whips around to look directly into the camera, fuming and trembling with baffled, impotent rage, before abruptly spinning back around and charging into the squabbling mass of idiots...Unbelievably funny stuff.
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Nobody could fall down funnier than Peter Sellers...pure legend
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"The exploding kyind. Myark my wyords Professor. Diabolical fyorces are at wyork."
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... with an inflatable parrot on his shoulder that he must keep pumping up because it has a leak. "Swine bird." And then his peg leg gets stuck in a hole and he falls face down on the dock. Thanks Quint.
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Are they doing the dance from Thriller?
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I'm a huge Pink Panther/Peter Sellers junkie. A lot of people point to "A Shot in the Dark" as the best entry in the series. It's a terrific movie no doubt, but for my money the best is "The Pink Panther Strikes Again."
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There is no doubt that Sellers is the star of the Panther films, and they are inconceivable without his comic greatness, but Lom's performances are just perfect. The name being left out is that of Blake Edwards, without whom you would be left with, well, the Steve Martin Panther films. Edwards, at this prime, was a genius director, and the Panther films hold up great, as do "The Party" and "The Great Race" (a childhood favorite). One of the great things about Edwards, as opposed to Mel Brooks (who is a favorite) is that he doesn't telegraph the punchlines in the Panther films. His genius is evident in how bad the Steve Martin films are. There is no reason they should be so bad. There is lots of talent in front of the camera, so why so terrible? The answer would of course include Sellers and Lom, but must include Edwards as well.
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the Pink Panther films, the Party, Dr. Strangelove, Being There. There's just no one like him.
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as listed... It is actually the fourth film, "The Pink Panther Strikes Again". Sellers' ripped pants are a dead giveaway.
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