A Shot In The Dark

This picture, the second in the Inspector Clouseau series starring Sellers, was drawn from a French play, "L'idiote," by Marcel Achard, which opened in Paris in the fall of 1960. About a year later Kurnitz presented his adaptation, "A Shot in the Dark," on Broadway, and it is from both these plays that the screenplay was fashioned. Sommer is a chambermaid, in the Parisian residence of Sanders and Reed, who has been accused of murdering her boyfriend. Sellers is mistakenly assigned to the case. His superior, Lom, would like to get him off it because he knows the havoc the man can wreak. ("Give me 10 men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world.") All the clues po...