‘The Return of the Pink Panther’ opens in U.S. theaters 40 years ago today (May 21 1975)


Video: 'The Return of the Pink Panther' trailer

(Wednesday, May 21, 1975)The Return of the Pink Panther, the fourth in a series of comedy films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau, opened today in U.S. theaters.

Directed by Blake Edwards, the film starred Peter Sellers, returning to the role of Inspector Clouseau for the first time since A Shot in the Dark (1964), Catherine Schell, Christopher Plummer and Herbert Lom.