The Return of the Pink Panther

[pro-bassoonist]

The Return of the Pink Panther Blu-ray

Courtesy of Fabulous Films. Street date: December 7.

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[duggie walker]

Interesting. This would suggest that rumours of MGM having regained the rights are untrue, for the UK at least.

And it's one of the better Panther movies, imo. They started to creep downhill after this one. And fell right off the edge, after Sellers died.

[samdvd1]

It wasn't too long ago Fabulous released it on DVD (a couple of months back). Like a lot of their recent releases it was a direct port of the Universal release. Hopefully, they get a decent source for this.

[malcy30]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

Interesting. This would suggest that rumours of MGM having regained the rights are untrue, for the UK at least.

And it's one of the better Panther movies, imo. They started to creep downhill after this one. And fell right off the edge, after Sellers died.

Originally Posted by samdvd1

It wasn't too long ago Fabulous released it on DVD (a couple of months back). Like a lot of their recent releases it was a direct port of the Universal release. Hopefully, they get a decent source for this.

Fabulous though seem to licence films from both MGM (Thunderbirds movies) and Universal (Fierce Creatures) so not an indictor of who now has UK rights.

[duggie walker]

Originally Posted by malcy30

Fabulous though seem to licence films from both MGM (Thunderbirds movies) and Universal (Fierce Creatures) so not an indictor of who now has UK rights.

Maybe so. I just would've thought that if MGM owned it, they'd keep it for this box-set they're supposedly planning.

[samdvd1]

Just got this back from the PR lady:

Hi Sam,
The source print for the blu-ray of Return of the Pink Panther is from Universal.
Best
Isx

[Aclea]

Be interesting to see if they could source the behind the scenes short and the teaser trailer, which was made up of outtakes long before It'll Be Alright on the Night came along.

[Region_unlocked]

Here's a link if anyone wants to pre-order.

The Return of the Pink Panther Blu-ray

[figrin_dan]

Looking forward to the review. Hope it looks more like The Pink Panther and less like Killing Zoe.

[figrin_dan]

It's just fallen off my Christmas list - 11 Jan

[Momolamitraille]

I still have more or less 130 DVDs in my collection. Most of them are French movies. Don't ask the Frenchs to realize that we are in 2016 in few days, they still think DVDs are good products...

Of all the films I still, unfortunately, own on DVDs, 4 outstand them all:

A Shot in the Dark
The Return of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther Strikes Back
The Revenge of the Pink Panther

On January 2016, one quarter of the biggest historical mistake in film industry will be corrected: TRofPP will be released in 1080p fullHD, it's Day One buy for me!

Can't wait for Inspecteur Jacques Clouseau de la Sûreté Nationale aka Guy Gadebois for the ladies, the swine parrot, the blindman and his munkey, Lady Claudine, Lugash, Gstaad, Commissaire Charles Dreyfus, Cato, Pepi, etc.

[samdvd1]

Just a heads up for those that require subtitles. Although Fabulous Films included subtitles on their DVD, the Blu-ray has NO subtitles (or extras).

AVC encode. English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono.

[StephenFS]

Originally Posted by samdvd1

Just a heads up for those that require subtitles. Although Fabulous Films included subtitles on their DVD, the Blu-ray has NO subtitles (or extras).

AVC encode. English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono.

Thanks. Disappointing news, but par for the course from British releasers.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by samdvd1

Just a heads up for those that require subtitles. Although Fabulous Films included subtitles on their DVD, the Blu-ray has NO subtitles (or extras).

AVC encode. English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono.

But does it look like the crap that they have turned out of late

[samdvd1]

It's an improvement on the DVD but obviously uses the same master as the 2006 Universal DVD as it retains some of the issues found there. I would give it a perhaps slightly generous 3/5 for transfer.

[Robert Siegel]

It's really a shame about the Pink Panther movies. MGM Home Entertainment has a huge library of titles, the entire United Artists library being part of it, yet they stopped releasing blu-rays, except for constant repackaging of the Bond movies. The Pink Panther films would make a great set, especially if they could lease (if they don't now have rights) to Return of the Pink Panther. These films should have been released on blu-ray a long time ago. I'll wait and see some reviews on ROTPP, but I suppose in the end we'll have to get it to complete any MGM set if it ever comes out.

[figrin_dan]

This now holds the title of my worst looking Blu-ray. But it wipes the floor with the dvd.