A Shot in the Dark (1964)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
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Cast & Crew.
Peter Sellers
Jacques Clouseau
Elke Sommer
Maria Gambrelli
George Sanders
Benjamin Ballon
Herbert Lom
Charles Dreyfus
Tracy Reed
Dominique Ballon
Graham Stark
Hercule LaJoy
Moira Redmond
Simone
Burt Kwouk
Kato
André Maranne
François
Vanda Godsell
Madame LaFarge
Maurice Kaufmann
Pierre
Ann Lynn
Dudu
Blake Edwards
Director
David Lodge
Georges
William Peter Blatty
Writer
Martin Benson
Maurice
Harry Kurnitz
Writer
Reginald Beckwith
Receptionist
Marcel Achard
Writer
Douglas Wilmer
Henri LaFarge
Bryan Forbes
Camp Attendant
Henry Mancini
Composer
Andre Charisse
Game Warden
Christopher Challis
Cinematographer
Howard Greene
Gendarme
John Herrington
The Doctor
Bert Bates
Editor
Ralph E. Winters
Editor
Jack Melford
The Psycho-Analyst
Michael Stringer
ProductionDesigner
Victor Baring
Taxi Driver
Victor Beaumont
Gendarme
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 23, 1964
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 42m
Content RatingPG
Box Office$12,368,234
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Wiki.
A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision. 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.
Clouseau'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. 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. Elke Sommer portrays the murder suspect, Maria Gambrelli. 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). Graham Stark, who portrays police officer Hercule Lajoy, would reprise this role eighteen years later, in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982).
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. 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.