A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964) **1/2 Inspector Clousseau, the greatest of them all, is back and can't find his office. Of course, why tie up valuable cranial real estate on such trivialities? The music is wonderful, especially the brass section of the nudist colony ensemble. The main attraction is Peter Sellers' physical humour, exhibited here with extraordinary subtlety (the scene where he falls off the balcony and Elke Sommer asks "Are you alright?" and he pretends that he's too distracted by a deep thought to respond immediately). The eyebrows, the nose, the mustache, the disguises so great that he's repeatedly thrown in jail. Selling balloons without a license...
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