A Shot in the Dark (1964 film) 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". Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) of the Sûreté, the French national police, is called to the country home of millionaire Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders) to investigate the murder of his chauffeur, Miguel Ostos. The chauffeur was having an affair with one of the maids, Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer), and attacked her in her bedroom after she broke off with him. Miguel was shot and killed in her bedroom and Maria was found with the smoking gun
Follow the Boys (1963 film) Follow the Boys (1963 film) Follow the Boys (1963) is a comedy film starring Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, and Janis Paige, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Richard Thorpe and shot on location on the French and Italian Riviera, "Follow the Boys" was MGM's second film vehicle for top recording artist Francis following "Where the Boys Are" (1960). While Francis' role in the earlier film had been somewhat secondary, she had a distinctly central role in "Follow the Boys" playing Bonnie Pulaski, a newlywed traveling the Riviera. Bonnie visits various ports-of-call in hopes of a rendezvous with her sailor husband