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- 1964
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 42 m
- 1964
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 42 m
Summary Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate.
Directed By: Blake Edwards
- 1964
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 42 m
- 1964
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 42 m
A Shot in the Dark
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7.6
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Summary Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate.
Directed By: Blake Edwards
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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29% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
70
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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The picture is filled with one sight gag after another, many familiar to anyone old enough to remember the glory days of silent comedy.
Elke Sommer is good as the devious maid Maria Gambrelli but it is Sellers who steals the show as the inept detective fumbling and bumbling his way around solving murder mysteries.
The whole thing is colorful, gay — and Henry Mancini's music is as sassy and frivolous as the film.
Sometimes the narrative is subordinated to individual bits of business and running gags but Sellers’ skill as a comedian again is demonstrated, and Sommer, in role of the chambermaid who moves all men to amorous thoughts and sometimes murder, is pert and expert.
This isn't quite up to the original, but it has its moments, as Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) sets out to solve a murder in an English country house.
Ultimately, A Shot in the Dark is not superior to The Pink Panther, as many have suggested, but a somewhat predictably derivative sequel that maintains its predecessor's form but not substance.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
7.6
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
7.6
90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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