Review of Trail of the Pink Panther

I had the pleasure of watching this in the MGM Screening room in Manhattan, a good friend of mine more or less conned his way into the film review business in college and was often invited to these special screenings. Also saw the not so good A VIEW TO A KILL and SPACEBALLS in this room. TRAIL is really a memoir to the older films and it is not good, particularly to compare Sellers, a delicate comedian, trying to over-sell Harvey Korman in the Balls scene ... an exact duplicate of the REVENGE scene which plays much much better!!! Korman and Sellers did not mix well, though one wishes Korman was supported by Tim Conway. But I will never forget David Niven commenting that we shall never forget "the old man in the street." Well, everybody CHEERED as we cut to that wonderful scene in the first Panther, the car chase, in the square at night. Again, a memoir to the other films. Edwards tried to do something with nothing which never works well at all.