A Shot in the Dark

(1964)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 677 votes

Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Year: 1964

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Director: Blake Edwards

Cast: Питер Селлерс, Эльке Зоммер, Джордж Сандерс, Герберт Лом, Graham Stark, Moira Redmond, Tracy Reed, Burt Kwouk, André Maranne, Vanda Godsell

Plot

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.

Peter Sellers returns as the hapless Inspector Clouseau in this hysterical comedy which introduces Herbert Lom as the long-suffering Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouk as Cato. Mistakenly assigned to a high-profile case, Clouseau finds himself falling for the prime suspect -- a beautiful maid named Maria, whose talent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time rivals Clouseau's. But as the body count grows higher, Clouseau must find the real culprit quickly, or his career will be finit.