The best of the Panther films As much James Bond film as Pink Panther movie, this 1976 entry begins with former Chief Inspector Dreyfus, (Herbert Lom) about to be released from the lunatic asylum and all is going well - until Chief Inspector Clouseau turns up... Within minutes, the newly sane former police commissioner Dreyfus is reduced to a gibbering maniac - hell bent on destroying the world unless the authorities deliver Clouseau to him. The following 90 minutes consist of an inflatable Quasimodo hovering above Notre Dame cathedral, an absurd fight with an 'oriental lunatic', assassin wars at the Oktoberfest, a dentist with a plastic nose and the destruction of the United Nations building. Sellers and director Blake Edwards did everything right here. With a script this insane - they couldn't really go wrong.