A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)

A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and is the second installment in The Pink Panther series. Peter Sellers is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sret.

Inspector Clouseau is called to the country home of Paris plutocrat Benjamin Ballon to investigate the murder of his Spanish chauffeur Miguel. The chauffeur was having an affair with the maid, Maria Gambrelli, who claims that he often beat her. Although all the evidence points to Gambrelli as the killer, Clouseau refuses to admit her guilt after he develops an instant attraction to her.For the real culprits to keep the truth hidden from Clouseaus boss, Commissioner Charles Dreyfus, they must commit more murders. With the murders of Georges the gardener, Dudu Ann Lynn the maid, and Henri LaFarge, the head butler, Maria is arrested. Clouseau sets her free each time, but is himself arrested four times in quick succession first for selling balloons without a license, then for selling paintings without a license, then for hunting without a license, and finally with Maria Gambrelli for public nudity, after they flee a nudist community. In order to keep his mind sharp for the case, Clouseau eventually instructs his manservant Kato to attack him at every opportunity which becomes a staple running gag for the rest of the Pink Panther films featuring Sellers. ........

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