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A Shot in the Dark
MEANRANK
75/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94.
See the most agreed on films →The inept Inspector Clouseau is assigned to investigate a murder at a wealthy man's estate. The primary suspect is the beautiful maid, with whom Clouseau immediately becomes infatuated. His investigation is continually hampered by his own clumsiness and a string of additional murders that occur around him, each of which seems to further implicate the maid he is determined to protect.
Details
- Director
- Blake Edwards
- Writers
- Blake Edwards, William Peter Blatty
- Based on
- a work by Harry Kurnitz
- Studio
- United Artists, The Mirisch Company
- Released
- 23 June 1964
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- PG
- Box office
- $12.4M
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