A Shot in the Dark (1964)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x824 | x264 @ 13,8 Mbps | 102 min | 10,93 Gb
Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: English (+SDH)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x824 | x264 @ 13,8 Mbps | 102 min | 10,93 Gb
Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: English (+SDH)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director: Blake Edwards
Writers: Blake Edwards (screenplay), William Peter Blatty (screenplay)
Stars: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders
When rich M. Ballon's spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene. All evidence suggests Maria Gambrelli, the maid, to be the murderer. But Clouseau, being attracted to the beautiful girl, is convinced that she is hiding something. So, he has her released from jail and tries to follow her secretly. Things do not work out the way the inspector wanted and people keep being murdered, and each time innocent Maria seems to be the killer. But with someone important wanting Clouseau and nobody else to cover this case, his tolerance-challenged boss Charles Dreyfuss is close to losing his mind when casualties keep turning up. And Clouseau keeps on causing trouble without knowing it…
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.
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A Shot in the Dark (1964)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
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