![]() ![]() Inspector Clouseau of the Sûreté, a bumbling and incompetent detective, is called out to the scene, accompanied by his assistant Hercule Lajoy. The night's events soon end with gunshots in the room of Maria, and Miguel found murdered. The household consists of: Ballon's wife Dominique Henri Lafarge, the head butler, and his wife Madame Lafarge, the cook Miguel Ostos, the head chauffeur Pierre, the second chauffeur, and his wife Dudu, the head maid Georges the gardener, and his wife Simone, the second maid Maria Gambrelli, the third maid and Maurice, the second butler. Late at night at the country home of millionaire Benjamin Ballon, several of its occupants are moving about rooms, hiding and spying on others. The film was released only a year after the first Clouseau film, The Pink Panther, the biggest difference being that, without David Niven, Clouseau is the main character and not Niven's foil. The film was not originally written to include Clouseau, but was an adaptation of a stage play by Harry Kurnitz adapted from a French play L'Idiote by Marcel Achard. Graham Stark, who portrays police officer Hercule Lajoy, would reprise this role eighteen years later, in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982). The character of Gambrelli would return in Son of the Pink Panther (1993), this time played by Claudia Cardinale, who appeared as Princess Dala in The Pink Panther (1963). Elke Sommer portrays the murder suspect, Maria Gambrelli. ![]() The film also marks the first appearances of Herbert Lom as his long-suffering boss, Commissioner Dreyfus, as well as André Maranne as Dreyfus's assistant François and Burt Kwouk as Clouseau's stalwart manservant Cato, all three of whom would become series regulars. It is the second installment in The Pink Panther film series, with Peter Sellers reprising his role as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté.Ĭlouseau's blundering personality is unchanged, but it was in this film that Sellers began to give him the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that was to later become a hallmark of the character. A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision.
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