Quand l'inspecteur s'emmêle

Original title: A Shot in the Dark

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7.3/10

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Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate.

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Bumbling Detective Farce Whodunnit Comedy Crime Mystery

Bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau falls in love with murder suspect Maria Gambrelli and tries to clear her name.Bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau falls in love with murder suspect Maria Gambrelli and tries to clear her name.Bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau falls in love with murder suspect Maria Gambrelli and tries to clear her name.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

32K

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 3 nominations total

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Trivia
Although they had worked well together on La Panthère rose (1963), the improvisational nature of Quand l'inspecteur s'emmêle (1964) led to many arguments between Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards. At the end of filming, they both agreed never to work together again. This wouldn't last. They would ultimately re-team four years later for La Party (1968) and, subsequently, several Pink Panther sequels.

Goofs
Clouseau falls into the fountain at the beginning. Yet when he puts a lit lighter into his wet coat, it catches on fire.

Quotes
Dreyfus: Give me ten men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world.

Crazy credits
The title sequence is of an animated Inspector Clouseau bumbling around, getting into scrapes.

Connections
Edited into À la recherche de la panthère rose (1982)

Soundtracks
Shadows of Paris
Music by Henry Mancini
Lyrics by Robert Wells
Performed by Gina Carroll

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Featured review

9/10

Lesser known, but this is the best Pink Panther film

A fast paced comedy/mystery less about who-dun-it than how many corpses can they fit in the movie?! The Inspector Clousseau character returns and Sellars is to be credited with creating a characterization that seems just believable enough to be ridiculous.

Some very funny moments of physical and verbal humor. Sommer is mostly window dressing in this role, forced to play straight-gal to Sellars' sometimes manic "clumsiness". Lom makes his first series appearance (with hilarious facial tics) as the head cop. The best film in the series.

Very memorable opening sequence set to Mancini's excellent theme song is one of the film's many highlights.