A Shot in the Dark (1964)

A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 film directed by Blake Edwards. It is the second game in the The Pink Pantherseries. Peter Sellers returns as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté. His silly personality is unchanged, but new is the exaggerated French accent, which would become atrademark for the character. The film introduces Herbert Lom as his boss, Commissioner Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouk as Cato. These two remain the whole series would return. Elke Sommer plays the attractive Maria Gambrelli.

Not present at all In the original scenario was Clouseau, it was a movie based on the play L'Idiot by Marcel Achard. When it was started on the screenplay, it was decided to add the character of Clouseau. The film was released only a few months after the first film.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Inspector Jacques Clouseau is recalled to the homeland of a plutocraat from Paris to solve a murder. Despite that all the evidence points to one person, refuses Clouseau, impressed by her beauty, to believe that they are the culprit is. As the real culprits to keep everything away from Clouseau's boss Charles Dreyfus, should there be more murders were committed. It always gets to Clouseau in the wrong place at the wrong time, including a scene in a nudist colony and one where he himself is arrested by the police up to four times (first for selling balloons without a license, then for selling paintings without a license, then for hunting without a license, and finally for public nude walk). If the Inspector continues to be crazy, causing him to slowly Dreyfus accidentally cutting off his thumb and cross himself with his letter opener. Next, start Dreyfus with destroying Clouseau, leading to an explosive final when he accidentally inflates all defendants in the case who all had committed one of the murders or others tried to blackmail. They affect this unfortunate fate when they try to escape in Clouseau's car, unaware that Dreyfus has placed a bomb in there. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4 external link
 * Peter Sellers -Inspector Jacques Clouseau
 * The detective with the exaggerated French accent and an incredible stupid way of working. He is very short-sighted, comes to conclusions that others would find irrational, try to get smart about it. Clouseau is continuous the driving force behind the frustrations of Dreyfus, and this is only the first film in which he are superior to despair. Also he tries to blame his blunders on others to slide (for example, that after he has fallen into a fountain, he comments that ".. .my idiot driver parked too close to the fountain").


 * Herbert Lom -Commissioner Charles Dreyfus
 * Clouseau's boss, who makes his first appearance in this film. He slowly gets crazy and tries to kill Clouseau eventually.


 * Elke Sommer -Maria Gambrelli
 * The beautiful maid of the family balloon. She is accused by the perpetrators. Like Clouseau does it have the ability in the wrong place at the wrong time to be. At the end of the film she begins a relationship with Clouseau.


 * Burt Kwouk -Cato
 * Clouseau's servant, trained in oorlogwerktuigen. Clouseau, who thinks the killers try to kill him, makes a training program with Cato, which means that Clouseau must attack him where and when least expect it. (This is a running gag throughout the series because Cato becoming the most weird moments singles to attack him, such as when Clouseau is almost killed, or on a very intimate moment.) The fighting between Cato and Clouseau ensure the destruction of Clouseau's apartment, which later inexplicably again in new condition.


 * George Sanders -Benjamin Balloon
 * The millionaire in whose house the first murder committed. Kill the killers by a number of complex events even more people, resulting in four people die. The perpetrators decide to put the blame on the maid, after which they are trying to disappear, but they come to themselves by the bomb in Clouseau's car.


 * Graham Stark -Hercule
 * The taciturn Clouseau's Assistant who constantly by his boss asked to look at the evidence, after which he punished is because he's a (logical) conclusion. His name is possibly a reference to the character Hercule Poirot from the novels of Agatha Christie. Hercule believes that Mary is the culprit, while Clouseau this not think. Clouseau to be right in the end.

==Trivia[ Edit] ==
 * Actor, Director and writer Bryan Forbes makes its appearance in the nudist scene.
 * The relationship between Edwards and Sellers deteriorated during the movie so that they came to the conclusion never again to make a movie together. Yet they worked later to The Partyand three other Pink Panther "films in the 70 's.
 * The American band r.e.m. named their fourth album Lifes Rich Pageant, to one of the sentences of Peter Sellers from this movie.
 * Cato, played by Burt Kwouk as Kato is spelled in the credits.
 * Hercule returns in Revenge of the Pink Panther, now as the Assistant to the Commissioner. He is not, however, played by Graham Stark, because that is already another role, that of Professor Auguste Balls played.