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
A Shot in the Dark (1935 film) A Shot in the Dark (1935 film) A Shot in the Dark is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Charles Lamont. A college student (Charles Starrett) discovers his roommate’s body hanging from a window and calls the police. What at first looks like suicide turns out to be murder. While a police investigation is ongoing, more students are killed. "The New York Times" wrote, ""A Shot in the Dark", which pictures a trilogy of murders on a rural college campus, telegraphs its punches in a way that may seem insignificant to Chesterfield Productions, Inc., but is as good as