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Original title: Shot in the Dark, A
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 23, 1999
Running Time
1 hour, 42 minutes
Country UK, USA
Production Companies
Geoffrey Productions Inc., Mirisch Films Limited
Studio Mirisch Corporation, United Artists
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Other Titles
• A Shot in the Dark (1964)
• Bride of the Pink Panther (1964)
• The Pink Panther: A Shot in the Dark (1964)
• Schuß im Dunkeln, Ein (1965)
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Comedy, Murder, Detectives, Slapstick, Police, Investigation, Farce, Campy, Love
Tagline: It's Sellers the Sleuth... and there's nothing he won't do to track down a body -- dead or alive!
Plot: Peter Sellers returns as the world's most accident-prone detective in the second film of Blake Edwards' Pink Panther series. When Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer), a parlormaid in the employ of Parisian plutocrat Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders), is accused of murdering her lover, Clouseau is assigned to the case. The bumbling detective insists on the young beauty's innocence--much to the dismay of Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom)--despite significant evidence to the contrary. Even after Maria is caught red-handed (holding bloody shears, to be precise) near the body of a murdered gardener, Clouseau remains intent on her innocence, and continues to free her from prison time and time again. When the corpse of the Ballons' former maid, Dudu (Ann Lynn), turns up, all evidence leads to Maria's involvement, but not, of course, in the eyes of the wily Clouseau. Clouseau takes care to thoroughly investigate every angle of the case (even if it does require a stakeout at a nudist colony) to nab the real killer. Or could it have been Maria all along? Possibly the best entry in the long-running series, this rapid-fire farce is a showcase for Sellers, whose perfectly timed deadpan verbal mangling and virtuoso displays of physical ineptitude define comic genius. As always, the film is
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Blake Edwards
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Marcel Achard
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