Wonkette Movie Night: A Shot In The Dark
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Hi Movie Night fans!
Tonight we are watching A Shot In The Dark (1964) starring Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer and Herbert Lom. Directed by Blake Edwards in Panavision and music by Henry Mancini.
It's the second movie in the Pink Panther film series with Sellers reprising his role as Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
Available for free on Tubi, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel and Prime. $3.99 in the usual places.
Got your popcorn? Enjoy!
Movie info can be found here.
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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.
The Empire State Building is in dark blue and cyan tonight in celebration of a new vaccine. Guess how some people are reacting to that!
https://substack.com/@ziggywiggy/note/c-40213765?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knfuc
https://twitter.com/EmpireStateBldg/status/1703182364497625350
Funny that the ESB website doesn’t mention the word “covid.”
esbnyc.com/about/tower-lights/calendar