Curse of the Pink Panther

Inspector Clouseau has vanished while looking into the theft of a large diamond, and the French authorities want him found. The task falls to his longtime adversary, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, who has no wish to see Clouseau return. He arranges for a police computer to assign the search to the world's worst detective rather than its best, and the system picks New York Police Sergeant Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh travels to Europe and stumbles past criminals and crooked officials while Dreyfus's scheme threatens to backfire on him.

Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 American comedy directed by Blake Edwards, who also wrote the screenplay with Geoffrey Edwards and produced it. It was his nineteenth film as director, arriving after Trail of the Pink Panther and before Micki & Maude. David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine and Robert Loggia head a credited cast of sixty-one, with Lom returning as Dreyfus.

Made for about 11 million dollars, the film took roughly 4 million worldwide, a return well below its cost. On IMDb it holds 4.4 out of 10 from around 7,300 votes, while on TMDB it has 4.6 from about 212. A critics' rating of 4 out of 10 from 14 reviews places it close to the audience scores, with all three measures pointing to a poor reception.