Writer, producer, and director Blake Edwards' original cut ran two hours and four minutes, and was submitted to the British Board of Film Censors in 1976. Afterward, this movie was cut to one hour and forty-three minutes. That version was shown in cinemas, on VHS, and on DVD. Most of the cut scenes involved Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers') journey to, and arrival in, England. The two hour and four minute original cut has never surfaced, but a large chunk of the deleted footage was used in Sulle orme della pantera rosa (1982). The scenes include Clouseau in the car on the way to the airport, Clouseau on a plane to England (excerpts are in the trailer), Clouseau meeting the English police at the airport, and an extended version of Clouseau going into his apartment near the beginning of this movie, with rice flying everywhere. Deleted scenes involving Dr. Auguste Balls (Harvey Korman) also ended up in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982).

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