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Suspicion Of Murder | Unskillfulness
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Best British Costume Colour | 1966
Box Office Collection 12,368,234 USD
The "synchronize the watches" dialogue was improvised by Peter Sellers and Graham Stark.
According to Blake Edwards in the DVD boxed set documentary, a week into filming, Peter Sellers disappeared. When he returned, from an apparent holiday, Edwards was ready to kill him until Sellers told him of a peculiar hotel manager he met who had a funny French accent which Sellers was to give to the Clouseau character....Thus was born Clouseau's trademark odd pronunciations such as "beump" for bump and "meuths" for moths.
First appearance of Kato (later changed to Cato) and Dreyfus in the Clouseau film series.
Although they had worked well together on The Pink Panther (1963), the improvisational nature of A Shot in the Dark (1964) led to many arguments between Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards. At the end of filming, they both agreed never to work together again. This wouldn't last. They would ultimately re-team four years later for The Party (1968), and, subsequently, several Pink Panther sequels.
The film is based on a French play, "L'Idiote" by Marcel Achard, which was adapted to English by Harry Kurnitz and retitled "A Shot in the Dark". It was going to be a faithful adaptation of the story, but Peter Sellers did not like how things were going and wanted out. United Artists brought in Blake Edwards to keep Sellers on the project. Edwards looked at the script and thought that it might be better suited to the character of Inspector Jacques Clouseau, and rewrote the entire script with William Peter Blatty. It was released only three months after the original The Pink Panther (1963), making it a sequel to that film and establishing the Pink Panther franchise. However, due to its origins, it remains the one Pink Panther film in the series to be based on a murder mystery (all other films were lighter fare), and the only one to not feature the Pink Panther animated character or theme track.
"Dreyfus: Give me ten men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world."
"[first lines] Dreyfus: [answers phone] Commissioner Dreyfus... Ah, yes, my darling... I was just about to call you. I'm on my way. I've got the cheese and the beaujolais... What? [laughs] Dreyfus: ... My love. Kiss the children for me, hmm? [intercom buzzes] Dreyfus: Hold on. [covers phone mouthpiece; answers intercom] Dreyfus: Yes? intercom: Your wife is on the other line. Dreyfus: Tell her I'm out of town."
