A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Herbert Lom: Charles Dreyfus
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Quotes
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Dreyfus : Give me ten men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world.
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[first lines]
Dreyfus : [answers phone] Commissioner Dreyfus... Ah, yes, my darling... I was just about to call you. I'm on my way. I've got the cheese and the beaujolais... What?
[laughs]
Dreyfus : ... My love. Kiss the children for me, hmm?
[intercom buzzes]
Dreyfus : Hold on.
[covers phone mouthpiece; answers intercom]
Dreyfus : Yes?
intercom : Your wife is on the other line.
Dreyfus : Tell her I'm out of town.
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Dreyfus : If someone has been murdered here, please let it be Clouseau.
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Dreyfus : [chuckles and whimpers] He released her again, and he's taking her out to dinner to dinner. Every paper in Paris has the story, including the Christian Science Monitor, and he gave them the story! You see, he claims she's protecting her lover, and the best way to force him into the open is to make him jealous. Jealous! That nincompoop! That megalomaniac! He's setting the science of criminal investigation back a thousand years, and I can't do anything about it!
The Psycho-Analyst : Why not?
Dreyfus : Why not? What if he's right?
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Dreyfus : [a car bomb has just killed the killers. Dreyfus refers to four other killings] A doorman, two customers, and a Cossack! And now six more innocent people!
Clouseau : They were all murderers, except Maurice, who was a blackmailer, Commissioner!
Dreyfus : [whimpering] Compared with you they were all saints!
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Dreyfus : What about the maid?
Clouseau : The maid?
Dreyfus : Was he jealous of her too? He strangled her.
Clouseau : It is possible that his intended victim was a man and that he made a mistake.
Dreyfus : A mistake?... in a nudist camp?
Clouseau : Nobody's perfect.
Dreyfus : Idiot nincompoop lunatic!