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.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 3 nominations total
Bryan Forbes
- Camp Attendant
- (as Turk Thrust)
Andre Charisse
- Game Warden
- (as André Charise)
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- TriviaAlthough they had worked well together on The Pink Panther (1963), the improvisational nature of A Shot in the Dark (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 The Party (1968), and, subsequently, several Pink Panther sequels.
- GoofsClouseau falls into the fountain at the beginning. Yet when he puts a lit lighter into his wet coat it catches on fire.
- Crazy creditsThe title sequence is of an animated Inspector Clouseau bumbling around, getting into scrapes.
- ConnectionsEdited into Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
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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.
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.
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Ein Schuß im Dunkeln
- Filming locations
- Luton Hoo Estate, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK(Ballon Estate general views)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,368,234
- Gross worldwide
- $12,368,817
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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