Peter Sellers The Return Of The Pink Panther, 1975

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Peter Sellers The Return Of The Pink Panther, 1975
A leather tool bag, the elongated chest-shaped bag fastening with three buckles [lacking shoulder strap] -- 17½in. (44.5cm.) long -- used by Peter Sellers in his disguise of the telephone repair man in the 1975 film The Return Of The Pink Panther; a director's chair backrest, the cream canvas printed in black lettering PETER SELLERS; a prop photograph of the fictional President of Lugash using Lew Grade's superimposed face -- seen on the wall behind the desk of the Lugash Chief of Police -- 10½x8½in. (26.6x21.5cm.); a leather folder with Police Municipale Nice badge on the front, containing corresponding stationery -- used as set dressing in either Clouseau or Dreyfus's offices in various films; and a still of Peter Sellers -- 8x10in. (20.3x25.4cm.); and related material (a lot)

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In The Return Of The Pink Panther, Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau dons one of his many disguises, this time that of telephone repair man, to visit Sir Charles Litton [Christopher Plummer] at his villa in the South of France, whom he suspects is the 'Phantom' thief who has stolen the Pink Panther diamond.

The photograph of Lew Grade as the President of Lugash was apparently an in-joke amongst the production team; Grade, as head of A.T.V. was the financial backer of the film.

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