1980 might have seen the end of Peter Sellers, but it sure wasn't the end of his fondest role, as evidenced in the inexcusable hack job of a sequel The Trail of the Pink Panther. Infamous for the successful lawsuit brought by the star's wife on the grounds that the outtakes and blatant best-of moments taken from previous entries were an insult to her husband's memory, Trail is very much an insult to Sellers' legacy just as much as it's a slap in the face to the audience. Meant both as a tribute to his old friend and as starting point for continuing the series with the equally horrible Curse of the Pink Panther (featuring no Inspector Clouseau), director Blake Edwards delivers a shameless flick that's packed with the kind of "filler" that TV sitcoms ended up using on their off-weeks. When he's not recycling well-known gag footage, Edwards fills the screen with a worthless French reporter whose job it is to take the audience back to some of the supporting characters that have filled the series since the beginning (thus the appearance of David Niven, along with reprised roles from the characters of Kato and Clouseau's old partner Hercule). Needless to say, the trick does not work, and viewers only end up more and more intolerant of the ruse. Only Richard Mulligan as the Inspector's father comes off inspired -- in complete contrast to the downright sad dubbing that litters the film with both Niven and the young Clouseau flashbacks by none other than celebrity impersonator Rich Little. Trail would prove disastrous for the series, only pulling in a mere fraction of the box office of earlier installments and ruining Edwards' career for years to come.