1. Trail Of The Pink Panther
One critic referred to Trail of the Pink Panther as "cinematic graverobbing at its most unsavoury", due to the fact that it was released more than 2 years after Peter Sellers' death, and simply re-used deleted and cutting room footage from throughout the actor's career, even if it didn't make any sense at all. It feels like a surreal Dali experiment; Sellers' age changes drastically without rhyme or reason, and the time chasm between the various films means that characters never stick to a specific time era regarding cars and clothing codes. They did film some new footage, too; an excursion in which Inspector Clouseau finds himself on a plane features a double who has his face wrapped up in bandages, though the film makes little attempt to really disguise him, given that it frequently features close-ups of a man who is decidedly
not Peter Sellers. Finally fed up with the ruse, Clouseau dies half-way through the film, and the rest of it is just a greatest hits clip show. Sellers' wife sued the production for tarnishing his legacy and won $1m in damages, while the film went on to be critically savaged as a crass money-making spectacle. Which movie production do you find the most sickening, or perhaps the most genius? Let us know in the comments below.