- published: 25 Sep 2015
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A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and is the second installment in The Pink Panther series. Peter Sellers is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté.
Clouseau's bungling personality is unchanged, but it was in this film that Sellers began to give him the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that was to become a hallmark of the character. The film also introduces Herbert Lom as his long-suffering boss, Commissioner Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouk as his stalwart servant Cato, both of whom would become series regulars. Elke Sommer plays Maria Gambrelli. Gambrelli would return in Son of the Pink Panther, this time played by Claudia Cardinale, who played Princess Dala in The Pink Panther. Graham Stark reprised his Hercule Lajoy role in Trail of the Pink Panther. Kato was named after The Green Hornet character. For legal reasons, the spelling was later changed from "Kato" to "Cato."
The film was not originally written to include Clouseau, but was an adaptation of a stage play by Harry Kurnitz adapted from the French play L'Idiote by Marcel Achard. The film was released only a few months after the first Clouseau film, The Pink Panther.
lets take them back to the days
when we were family
my breath was your breath when we were young
i think it's funny how the times have changed
throw being jealous in the mix
and now all i know of you is a name
couldn't have came at a better time
this ends right now
we gave all of ourselves
to entertain you
were only hurting us (ourselves)
i'm a god amongst the ants and your girlfriends
and you act like you don't even know
it's cause you haven't been here for too long
i called this right from the start
i turn my back for one second now all i hear is a shot in the dark
use my name like you know me
you're all the same
keep running your mouth