A Shot in the Dark
“…the picture that gets away with murder!”
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
Genres
Comedy, Mystery, Crime
Studio
United Artists
Language
en
Status
Released
How A Shot in the Dark performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$12.4M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Jacques Clouseau
Peter Sellers
Jacques Clouseau
Maria Gambrelli
Elke Sommer
Maria Gambrelli
Benjamin Ballon
George Sanders
Benjamin Ballon
Charles Dreyfus
Herbert Lom
Charles Dreyfus
Hercule LaJoy
Graham Stark
Hercule LaJoy
Simone
Moira Redmond
Simone
Dominique Ballon
Tracy Reed
Dominique Ballon
Kato
Burt Kwouk
Kato
François
André Maranne
François
Madame LaFarge
Vanda Godsell
Madame LaFarge
Pierre
Maurice Kaufmann
Pierre
Dudu
Ann Lynn
Dudu
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