1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,320 Hello and welcome to Goonpod, the podcast in which we look at 2 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,920 classic comedy through the filter of the goons. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,880 My name is Tyler Adams, and this week, do you have a license for 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:25,680 this podcast? License the 5 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,000 OK, let's try again. Hello, and welcome to Goonpod, 6 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,200 the podcast in which we look at classic comedy through the 7 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,960 filter of the goons. My name is Tyler Adams, and this 8 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:09,920 week it's returning guest, former podcaster and now 9 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:14,080 published novelist Adam Leslie. Hello, how are you? 10 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,360 Very good and all the better of seeing you and having you back 11 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:19,120 on the podcast. I. 12 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,760 Mean I'm not sure I'm a former podcaster because I'm here on 13 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,000 time. Yeah, but I mean, well, the your 14 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,400 podcast is is on ice. It's. 15 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,720 Kind of officially paused, because it turns out being a 16 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,600 published novelist is quite a lot of work. 17 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,360 See here we here we go. Because the last time you were 18 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:41,040 on, which was August last year, I think you were talking about 19 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,400 the fact that it was, it was brand new news then that you had 20 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:49,040 this book due to be published. And it has literally just come 21 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:54,040 out in the last month. It's a hefty volume lost in the 22 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,680 garden. Yes. 23 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,680 Now I hold my hands up. I do have it. 24 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:01,280 I got it, you know, hot off the press. 25 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,280 I haven't read it yet because I've been, I've been working 26 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,240 and, and podcasting and I do actually have a family who 27 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,440 sometimes sort of expect that I spend time with them, you know? 28 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,120 That's where you that's where you're ahead of me. 29 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,760 Yeah, yeah. But I'm I'm going on holiday in 30 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,240 a few weeks, so I will take that with me and and disappear into 31 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,200 the pages. How would you describe it? 32 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,080 Atmospheric folk horror. I think so, yeah. 33 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,960 Or nostalgia horror. It may be a good thing as well 34 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:38,040 to describe it as it's, it's folk horror in tone and texture, 35 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,080 but it's not particularly horrific in terms of spurting 36 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,160 and limbs coming off and anything. 37 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,840 Stephen Hot, Stephen King sort of horror. 38 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,960 It's much more about an easy atmosphere and it's quite haunt, 39 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,880 illogical and unsettling and spooky. 40 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,720 And also it's quite a nice summer read. 41 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,960 So it's it's folk horror, but I think it's relatively unusual 42 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,560 that it's set during the height of summer. 43 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,320 In fact, it's a perpetual summer that's lasted for six, six years 44 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,440 so far. So it's it's quite a good summer 45 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,800 read if you fancy something strange and evocative. 46 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,320 Well, it begins with ice cream. Doesn't. 47 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,440 It it does and continues with ice cream throughout. 48 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,920 Right. I'm glad you said there's no 49 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:22,960 spurting. I wouldn't want to read that 50 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,960 sort of book. So brilliant. 51 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,880 So, so obviously that's just out available now. 52 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:34,640 Do you go into Waterstones book shops and do you try and sort of 53 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,240 see where it's positioned in in the shop? 54 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,360 Yeah, it's it's. I've been in a few and it's on 55 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,480 quite a few of the tables. It's often in horror on the 56 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:44,520 horror tables. It's it's in a few of them. 57 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,440 It's just unlike here's a nice new read, which is, which is 58 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:49,680 quite flattering to be in with the the, you know, the general 59 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,400 literature. I mean, there's nothing wrong 60 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,360 with being in horror as well, but it just if you if you've got 61 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,560 a little bit of crossover, that's quite flattering as well. 62 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,040 So it's quite exciting to actually be on the table in 63 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,560 Waterstones. It's like a little bit of a 64 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,280 little bit of a bonus. But yes, I've always wanted to 65 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,440 say it, but it's available in all good book shops. 66 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:13,000 Do you stand behind a pillar and see if anyone walks in and picks 67 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 it up and reads the blurb on the back? 68 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,760 Yeah, I mean, I do that anyway. So it's quite, it's, it's quite 69 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,800 nice to also have a book to keep an eye on. 70 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:23,520 And you, you work at a bookshop, don't you? 71 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,600 I do, I'm part time in a, in a branch of Black Whales. 72 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,360 So which is quite good actually for promoting a book because 73 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,960 I've been there for eight years. So I can, I can leverage a few 74 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,000 favours or just, you know, I'm a nice fellow, promote my book. 75 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,840 And so I've got a big poster in the window and we've, we've sold 76 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:44,600 quite a few copies as well. And people I've never even met 77 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,640 are buying it, which is quite exciting. 78 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:49,160 Very good. Do you reckon it's up for the 79 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:50,960 Booker? I'd be. 80 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,640 I'll be disappointed if it's not, frankly. 81 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,640 And you'll be robbed if you don't get it. 82 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,520 Yeah, and you can. One of the somebody who used to 83 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:02,080 work at my branch of Black Whales just slightly before I 84 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,200 started, has been up for the Booker, so if she could be up 85 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:07,920 for the Booker then I don't see why I can't. 86 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,440 It wasn't Iris Murdoch, was it? No. 87 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,760 You're not that old, are you? I'm getting there. 88 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:25,040 So really excited this week because finally after what, 89 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:29,720 three years now of podcasting, finally we have reached the 90 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:34,360 point where we are going to talk about my favorite EVs Peter 91 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,600 Sellers film, which is a shot in the dark. 92 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,760 And, and I know, you know, I've already nailed my colours to the 93 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,880 mouse and said that it is my favorite Peter Sellers film. 94 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:48,880 It's probably the one I've watched the most. 95 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,920 In fact, I know it's the one I've watched the most, but I'm 96 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,080 not quite sure. Your history with the Adams? 97 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,440 Is this a film you remember from childhood or or more recently? 98 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:04,120 I think I did see a lot of Inspector Clouseau films in 99 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,680 childhood, but it's difficult to tell them apart in one's memory. 100 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,000 They kind of blur into one. But I think I must have seen 101 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,160 this one. I've seen it. 102 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,560 I've probably seen it three times since then. 103 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,480 Yeah, including last night for this making notes. 104 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:23,840 But I guess I really like it. I'm not going to keep you in 105 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:27,600 suspense and, you know, be I might be really down on it. 106 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,480 I really like it. I mean, it's not, it's not my 107 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,880 absolute favorite Peter Sellers film because we've already done 108 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,000 that one. That was Doctor Strangelove from 109 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,920 the same year. He's just 64. 110 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,360 Was sort of his his peak of quality perhaps, wasn't it? 111 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,800 Yeah, and we will. We will mention Strangelove a 112 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,840 little later as well, because this film ties in with that ever 113 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:50,040 so slightly. One another shared cast member 114 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:54,400 at least. Yes, yes, but also something 115 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,600 else. Anyway, we'll we'll get to that. 116 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:01,360 To me, it's the well, obviously, because it's my favorite Sellers 117 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,280 film. It is by virtue of that the best 118 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:08,560 ever Clueso film. Although I'm very fond of Return 119 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:14,320 of the Pink Panther, this is probably the first Peter Sellers 120 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,080 film I ever saw, or at least the one I the the the first one I 121 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,160 consciously remember. And it's because my sister I I 122 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,920 saw it first in the 80s when I was probably about, I would have 123 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,680 been about 10 or 11 and my sister at the time was living, 124 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,520 she older than me. She was living with her fiance 125 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,320 and I used to go and stay at their house on weekends because 126 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,960 I, you know, it was like a treat for me to do that. 127 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,680 And she was one of the first people in the in the town to 128 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:47,040 have Avhs player. And I'm exaggerating, but you 129 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:48,840 know what I mean. It was still kind of a rather 130 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:53,040 exotic to, to, to have some, someone in the family or, or a 131 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,920 family friend to have a, a VHS recorder. 132 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,280 And there was a, a video rental place. 133 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,440 And we must have, or I must have asked to have this film rented 134 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:11,040 out half a dozen times at least, you know, And it was my sister, 135 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:12,800 I think, who first rented it out. 136 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,240 And that's how I first saw it because she said, Oh, you might 137 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,680 like this. And I absolutely adored it. 138 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,120 And I just found, even though it was even then, it was 20 years 139 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,680 old, you know, in the mid 80s, it was a 20 year old film. 140 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:30,720 It was and I was AI was a kid. I just found it so engaging and 141 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:35,200 funny and to me there's no fat at all. 142 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,799 You know, it's not baggy anywhere. 143 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:39,400 There's no. Proper lick, doesn't it? 144 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,600 Yeah, it does. And so I've always, I've always 145 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,040 adored it. And also, you know, I watched it 146 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,320 again for the purpose of this and I probably haven't watched 147 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,320 it probably for five years before this week. 148 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,240 And there's always that little bit of worry, particularly since 149 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,040 I've been, you know, since I've been doing the podcast and 150 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,880 immersing myself a lot more in, in sellers career and output. 151 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,960 There was a little bit of worry that, oh, I'm going to watch it 152 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,040 for the first time in five years and is it going to be as good? 153 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,720 And thankfully, it stood up. Hooray. 154 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:19,120 Hooray, but it was also it was when we had the The Listener 155 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:24,840 poll at the end of last year. Game Pod Listeners Top 20 Peter 156 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:30,640 Sellers films This came out at #3 just just behind Strangelove 157 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,280 and Being there. Being there, I mean, that's a 158 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,800 pretty decent top three I think. And I know being there, it's not 159 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,400 one of your favourites, is it? No, it's not. 160 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:42,320 Yeah, I really like it though. Yeah, I don't. 161 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,040 I don't know, but I'm just going to. 162 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,560 Say about about the fact that you saw it when it was 20 years 163 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:51,280 old in the mid 80s, but I bet it looked in the mid 80s as ancient 164 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:55,800 then as it does now. When it's 60 years old, it's 165 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,400 probably more. So it probably seemed more dated 166 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:01,600 in the mid 80s than it does now because it's actually quite a 167 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,880 like to look at. It's very crisp and beautiful 168 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:11,760 colour and very well filmed. It doesn't look really sort of 169 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:13,880 creaky and all particularly goes along at such a pace. 170 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,200 But I remember in the in in the 80s particularly, sort of mid to 171 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,120 late 80s, the older stuff from a decade or even stuff from the 172 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,040 70s a decade before looked really old and really creepy. 173 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:26,720 Yeah. Absolutely, because I remember 174 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,200 very vividly because I love my favorite film period. 175 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,120 Now, if you like, or decade, film decade is the 70s, nine, 176 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,440 two. But I remember very clearly in 177 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:42,240 the 80s as a child becoming a, you know, becoming a teenager 178 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,760 thinking any films from I didn't want to watch any films from the 179 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,440 70s because they just looked dated. 180 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:53,440 Maybe, maybe likewise as we get into the 90s, I didn't want to 181 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,440 watch films from the 80s as they look dated. 182 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,000 And actually I still feel that way. 183 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,320 I don't really like the 80s generally and 80s films with 184 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,400 with exceptions, of course. But maybe it's the fashions, 185 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:08,480 it's the, the music, you know, the, the ubiquitous sax on the, 186 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,640 on the soundtrack in a lot of those 80s films. 187 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,960 But no, I don't remember if I felt that shot in the dark was I 188 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,360 mean, I must have known it was an old film, but I don't know 189 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,640 whether I as a kid thought, Oh my God, I hate to make 190 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,440 allowances for that. I I don't honestly remember. 191 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:32,280 What I do remember was although I love Clouseau, I do remember 192 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:37,800 thinking that the my favorite character in the whole film was 193 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,600 the character played by Graham Stark. 194 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,720 Oh, really? OK, little cool, the meek little 195 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,760 assistant. Who I just the, the there's a 196 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:51,640 couple of sequences where Clouseau is lecturing virtually. 197 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:56,880 He's lecturing Hercule on the, on the facts of the case fact. 198 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:01,360 And you have Hercule standing there in front of the blackboard 199 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:08,160 with his hands behind his back, looking quietly tolerant as 200 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,840 Clouseau goes through the facts. Yes. 201 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,160 Looking resigned to his resigned, yes. 202 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,360 You listen to me Hercule and you will learn something. 203 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,120 Now then the facts in this case are the body of the chauffeur 204 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,200 was found in the bedroom of the second maid. 205 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:28,440 Fact Cause of death 4 bullets in the chest. 206 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:34,600 Fact The bullets were fired at close range from a .25 calibre 207 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:39,160 Beretta Automatic fact Maria Gambarelli was discovered with a 208 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,640 murder weapon in her hand. Fact the murder weapon was 209 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,280 registered in the name of the deceased Miguel Ostos and was 210 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,000 kept markieu in the club compartment of the balloon Rolls 211 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,400 Royce. Fact Now then members of the 212 00:12:54,400 --> 00:13:00,520 household staff have testified that Miguel Ostos beat Pepper. 213 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,600 You're full. You've broken my pointing stick. 214 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:07,520 I've got nothing to point with now have have testified that 215 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,000 that that that Miguel Ostos beat Maria Gambrelli frequently. 216 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,800 And now finally comes a sworn statement of Monsieur and Madame 217 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,320 Balon, as well as all the members of the staff, each of 218 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:25,400 them with perfect alibis. Now then, Hercule, what is the 219 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,920 inescapable? Conclusion Maria Gambrelli 220 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,560 killed the chauffeur. What, you idiot? 221 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,600 Impossible. She's protecting someone. 222 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:36,880 How do you know that? Instinct. 223 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,480 But the fact. You are forgiving the most 224 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,360 important fact, motive. He beat her. 225 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,760 He was Spanish. He tore a dress off or. 226 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,160 Don't be ridiculous. Would you kill somebody who tore 227 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,800 your dress off? I suppose not. 228 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,800 No, of course not. No, no. 229 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,880 He's not in a huge amount, but I just, I remember thinking he was 230 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,960 great. He still is. 231 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,400 He still. Is yeah, that is he's, he's 232 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,240 doing a lot with a small amount, I think because he doesn't 233 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,840 really have anything to do other than be passive and resigned. 234 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,560 He's not giving the usual sort of quite big Graham Stark 235 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:15,520 performance. It's very, very, very passive. 236 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,960 And I think he has no expressions other than, you 237 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,640 know, just he wears the same facial expression throughout. 238 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,960 Although he does have a couple of scenes where he and Sellers 239 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,760 get to improvise. Certainly the watch 240 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,880 synchronizing scene, Oh yes, was largely improvised. 241 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,920 And I'm sure that the scene where Clouseau was taken off the 242 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,880 case and he's in the garden of the Chateau and he he's kind of 243 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,520 dejectedly walking back to the car and he trips over Hercule. 244 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,960 I'm sure that was improvised. There's some great cascading 245 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,880 pratfalls in this that they're never content or rarely content 246 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,560 in this film with having one pratfall. 247 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,600 They're often, they're often like domino topples of not 248 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,920 literally, but you know, they're or Jacob's ladders of of 249 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,160 pratfalls that they'll just keep going into each other. 250 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,280 And yeah, that makes it a lot of fun. 251 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:10,600 Blake Edwards was interviewed in January 64, and he said, he said 252 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,960 people nowadays make a joke and leave it at that. 253 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,880 What's really fun is to top it and then top the Topper. 254 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,480 It's a challenge, but it's in the great tradition. 255 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,640 And what he was referring to there was that he was very, very 256 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:29,840 influenced by the early silent and, and silent comedies and the 257 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,520 and early talkies with the likes of, you know, Buster Keaton. 258 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:41,080 I was going to say Lawrence, Harvey, Laurel and Hardy and 259 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,600 others. Before we talk about the film 260 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,520 and what we like about it and, and all that kind of jazz, I 261 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,360 just wanted to give the the background to how the film came 262 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,000 about. So. 263 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Yeah. So the Pink Panther came out in. 264 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,400 Well, it it received its world premiere in Italy in December 265 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:06,160 1963, and it wasn't released in the US until March 64. 266 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,200 I know, obviously, as everyone knows, although it it was kind 267 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:15,600 of ostensibly a David Niven starring film, Clouseau, the 268 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,520 character of Inspector Clouseau stole the film. 269 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:24,400 And then three months later in June, 64 shot the Dark comes 270 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,760 out. So literally three months have 271 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,240 passed. That's pretty good going, isn't 272 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,960 it? Well, The thing is that Shot the 273 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,080 Dark was brought forward for summer release. 274 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:35,000 It was. I think it was going to be 275 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,880 coming out end of 64, but obviously because of the success 276 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:44,400 of the Pink Panther, they wanted to capitalize on the success so 277 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,320 it comes out then. It was actually released in the 278 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:52,880 UK in January 65. It came about because there was 279 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:57,760 a comic mystery play by a playwright called Marcel Archard 280 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:03,840 called Lydiot or The Idiot. Nothing to do with Dostoevsky, 281 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:10,400 but it was first performed in France in 1960 and then there 282 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,599 was an English language version staged on Broadway the following 283 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:17,480 year with the title A Shot in the Dark and that was adapted by 284 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:24,119 Harry Kernitz and the cast included Walter Mato and William 285 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:25,520 Shatner. Really. 286 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,320 OK, so was Walter Mato the detective, the one that would 287 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,160 become the Clueso character? There wasn't a detective as 288 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,440 such, there was an examining magistrate who was played by 289 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,320 William Shatner on. Broadway, right. 290 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:40,200 OK. OK. 291 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:45,480 And I think Walter Mato kind of fulfilled, although a much 292 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:50,360 larger role, but kind of fulfilled the Hercule role. 293 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,560 OK. Oh no, that sounds interesting. 294 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,680 In some way, I, I think it's very difficult to get a, a 295 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:00,280 Direct Line on that, but I think that's how it worked out. 296 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,120 And anyway, that was successful on Broadway. 297 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:08,720 So there was a studio that wants to make it a film version and 298 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,920 they cast Sellers as the French magistrate. 299 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,880 So the, the William Shatner role. 300 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:20,440 And it was, it was like a pre trial murder investigation where 301 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,520 activity was mostly restricted to judicial chambers. 302 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,360 So by the sound of it, it was going to be quite, you know, 303 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:31,040 like a play on screen. Yes. 304 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,840 And they, they had a director lined up called Anatole Litvak, 305 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:38,600 I think. I think I'm pronouncing that 306 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,320 correctly. But Sellers didn't get on with 307 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,200 him. That's a surprise. 308 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:50,040 Can you believe it? And, and so the studio fired him 309 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,080 and they asked Blake Edwards if he would come on board, and he 310 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:59,160 agreed only if he could completely overhaul the thing, 311 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,120 completely rewrite the whole script. 312 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:02,240 OK. And. 313 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,640 Thank goodness he did it sounds the one entirely set in the 314 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,200 chamber. Sounds quite dull potentially. 315 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,360 Yeah, well, I mean, it may not be, Yeah, it may not have been 316 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:15,000 entirely set there, but largely I, I, I get the the feeling that 317 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,440 it was how it was going to be now. 318 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:21,840 So Blake Edwards came on board as producer and director. 319 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,840 OK. And he bought with him William 320 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,800 Peter Blatty. Oh yes, of course. 321 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,840 Somebody that Mark Kermode never stopped talking about. 322 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,200 Yeah, absolutely. Yes. 323 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,560 He's Kermode catnip, I suppose, isn't he? 324 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:47,120 He went on to become famous as the writer of The Exorcist, but 325 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:49,880 in the earlier days in his earlier days as a writer, he was 326 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,000 writing comedies and. He's the American Terry Nation. 327 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,920 Yes, that's a brilliant comparison. 328 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,600 Yeah, he, he'd been AI guess he'd been a sort of a hack 329 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,840 writer holding down a day job. And then he went on the 330 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:08,960 television quiz show You Bet Your Life, which was the Groucho 331 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,520 Marx game show. OK, yes, of course, I've seen a 332 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,640 few of those. And he won. 333 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,840 Blatty won $10,000 on that show in 1961. 334 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,200 That would be a heck. That's a heck of an amount of 335 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,520 money. Yeah, but what it did was it 336 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:28,320 allowed him to quit the day job and devote himself to being a 337 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,880 being a full time writer and screenwriter. 338 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:36,560 So Blake Edwards and he collaborated quite a bit in the 339 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,480 early days and and Blake and Blatty wrote or rewrote the 340 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:45,640 shot, the dark script incorporating this character 341 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:50,280 that had been such a a hit in the Pink Panther in the shape of 342 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:56,600 Inspector Clouseau. From what I understand, the 343 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,240 final script, the, the, the, the script for the film that we have 344 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,560 watched, the only elements from the original play that remain 345 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:10,560 intact were the murder, right? And the maid being the suspect. 346 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:16,120 OK, am I right in thinking this is the only Pink Panther film 347 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:20,720 with killings in all the rest? Just about, just about stealing 348 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:21,960 a diamond. And this is the only one that's 349 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,000 not about stealing the diamond. This is about this is the only 350 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,360 one that's about solving a murder. 351 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:28,040 Yeah, I'm just trying to scrolling through my memory 352 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,640 here. You're probably right. 353 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,280 I mean, were there any accidental killings in return? 354 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,240 I think they may have been. Possibly. 355 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,600 Actually, yeah. Anyway, Blake Edwards is on 356 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,480 board. He's got Blatty, he's got 357 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:45,040 Sellers as the star as to be to be Clue so and the the film that 358 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,240 Sellers had originally signed up to appear in to be directed by 359 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,160 this Anatole Litvak who was fired. 360 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,720 It was it was to have Walter Mattel reprising the role he 361 00:21:54,720 --> 00:22:02,120 played on stage and a major International Film star to play 362 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:05,080 the Maria Gambrelli role. Right. 363 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:10,960 And and someone who figures quite largely in in in Peter 364 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,320 Sellers world. In any case, who do you think 365 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:17,320 that might have been? Might it have been Brit Eckland? 366 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,480 Possibly. Oh no, the no. 367 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,160 Oh no, the Italian Sophia. Sophia. 368 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:24,840 Sophia Loren. Yes, of course. 369 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,840 Sophia Loren So she she Both Mato and Sophia Loren have been 370 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,160 attached to the project and both dropped out. 371 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,600 Sophia Loren, presumably because she doesn't want being harangued 372 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,360 by Peter Sellers. Constantly, I don't know. 373 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,400 I don't know there was right. So we've got here and I want to 374 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,880 just say thanks again. Thanks again to a mutual friend 375 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,320 of ours, Paul Abbott. Hello, Paul. 376 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:55,640 Paul provided me with a bunch of articles, contemporary news 377 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,840 articles, newspaper articles, magazine articles about Shot in 378 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,880 the Dark. OK, so I've got a wealth of 379 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,200 information from those. And there was an article, brief 380 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,880 article in an American film trade magazine from August 63 381 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,280 which said Walter Matthau, who won the Antoinette Perry Award 382 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,960 on Broadway for his performance in the hit comedy Shot in the 383 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,760 Dark, has been signed to recreate his stage role in the 384 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,840 Mirish Corporation filmed version of the play, which 385 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,080 director Anatole Litvak will begin shooting in Paris in early 386 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,040 November. Matal joins stars Sophie Loren 387 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,160 and Peter Sellers in the United Artists release. 388 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,920 OK, so you know, he was, he was still on board in August. 389 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,920 Shooting in Paris is interesting though, because it wasn't. 390 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,280 It was shot and tidy in London. Yes, it's very studio set, 391 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:42,880 isn't. There's not a lot of outside 392 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,160 stuff at all. No, no and then the following no 393 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,920 two months later. Daily Mail 28th of October 1963 394 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:59,720 headline Sophia says no to sellers right Sophia Loren I'm. 395 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,800 Surprised. Sophia Loren has told Peter 396 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,720 Sellers that she cannot Co star with him in a new British film, 397 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,120 A Shot in the Dark. If he's going to act like that. 398 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,360 Put your hands away. Miss Loren entered a Milan 399 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:17,520 hospital a week ago and returned to the Italian film she's making 400 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,920 this weekend. Her part in the British film 401 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:23,360 will now be taken by either Shirley MacLaine or Elizabeth 402 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:26,760 Taylor, Mr. Blake Edwards, its producer and director, said last 403 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,960 night. Miss Loren's husband told me it 404 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,520 was something to do with the operation. 405 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,120 She may have had something wrong with her that meant she couldn't 406 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,240 continue with Shot in the Dark. You Never. 407 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,320 Know this is like Peter pretending he had a broken foot 408 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,560 so he could get out of doing 4th rolling. 409 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,360 Doctor Strangelove. Absolutely, Absolutely. 410 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:48,920 Oh, I'm just having my appendix out. 411 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,560 Sorry. Love to Peter, honestly. 412 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,280 And she's doing that thing with, you know, when you make that 413 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,800 gesture, phone me with her hand. Yeah. 414 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,360 Interesting that, that Shirley MacLaine and Elizabeth Taylor 415 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:06,320 were being considered for Maria Cabrelli. 416 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,480 I could see. I could see Shirley MacLaine. 417 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,280 Not Elizabeth Taylor, though. No, she's not. 418 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,080 I mean, it would be a different spin on the role, but she's not 419 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,440 kittenish enough. Elizabeth Taylor No. 420 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,400 Yes, yeah, I think, I mean, I, I'm seeing it with Elkie summer. 421 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,720 So presumably, yeah, who whoever else it might have been would 422 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,080 have done a completely different role. 423 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,120 But but there's certainly very distinctive Elkie Summer energy 424 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,120 going on in this. I tripped over a route and I 425 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:37,960 grabbed Miguel to keep me from falling and somehow we both 426 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:43,320 fell. I cried a little bit afterwards, 427 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,040 but that wasn't because I was sorry it happened, it was 428 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,880 something he said. He insulted you. 429 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,680 Oh no, he lit a cigarette and took a long puff. 430 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,520 And tell me, why do so many men smoke afterwards? 431 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,880 No wonder tobacco companies get rich. 432 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,560 Well, Brick would have been good for it I guess. 433 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,160 Yeah, she would have done a similar sort of thing. 434 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,880 But he, Sellers didn't meet her until the month after filming 435 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,280 completed. But I'm sure if he'd met her 436 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,440 during filming, halfway through even he'd have had Al Kisama 437 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:23,640 fired. And according to Al Kisama, he 438 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,560 didn't try it on with her during filming. 439 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,600 This is Sellers OK, but he did suggest they get married. 440 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:36,200 Why not? Which is kind of what he did 441 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:42,360 with Sinead Cusack about six years later in Hoffman. 442 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,240 Oh, really? Yeah. 443 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:48,160 He was a funny lad, wasn't he? Wasn't he? 444 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,240 He's an old one. He had things to work through, 445 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,360 didn't he? I think so, yeah. 446 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:55,160 So. Yeah. 447 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,400 So. So Walter Mattell. 448 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,160 Whether he left of his own accord or was or was pushed, I'm 449 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,240 not sure, but in any case, the role that he was to play was 450 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,360 replaced by Graham Stark, at seller's insistence of course. 451 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,640 Yes, I I suspect that Matal left of his own accord. 452 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,480 I would imagine that the role he played on Broadway must have 453 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,560 been a much more significant role for him to have garnered 454 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:27,680 such awards and and and acclaim. So I gather, I assume, that the 455 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:34,440 Blatty Edwards script reduced the Hercule role down to down to 456 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:40,000 what what we see in the film. Very much kind of second banana 457 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,760 to Cluso, does it? Mean, I think if you're having a 458 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:47,040 Cluso film, you want Cluso to be very much the main character. 459 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,360 You don't want someone competing with his attention or competing 460 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:53,040 for his attention on screen. Yes, yeah. 461 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,880 Repeating for our attention with him. 462 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,440 That's it. That's the one I got there in 463 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,040 the air. That's it. 464 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,360 Now I I just said before, I really enjoyed Hercule as a when 465 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:04,280 I was a kid watching this film. Still do. 466 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:09,640 It's interesting that he didn't return in return or Hercule 467 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,680 didn't. Graham Stark did as a different 468 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,320 character and then would subsequently return in the next 469 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,440 couple of. Oh yes, of course he has the 470 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,960 line. That is, that is not my dog. 471 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:23,520 That's right, although he did, Graham Stark did reprise the 472 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,280 role of Hercule 18 years later in Trail of the Pink Panther 473 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,600 1982. Right, which is one I've never 474 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,160 seen. AKA flogging a dead Panther. 475 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,920 I said that Sellers insisted that he be bought onto the film. 476 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,920 Sellers also asked that Dave Lodge and Herbert Long be cast. 477 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:50,280 Obviously he was great friends with Lodge and Stark and he's 478 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,880 also friendly with Lam and had worked with him on The Lady 479 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:58,600 Killers and and Mr. Topaz. They bought on board Alki Summer 480 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:04,720 to take on the the role of the maid who's the suspect, the 481 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:09,200 murder suspect, Maria Gambrelli. Alki Summer, who's still with us 482 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,840 and the last cast member alive. I was thinking that, yes, I 483 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,680 think she was 23 at the time, so she's now presumably about 83. 484 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,040 Yeah, OK. Yeah. 485 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,720 So so Alki Summer, she's on board as Maria Gambrelli and 486 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:29,000 Maria Gambrelli, the character would eventually return in a 487 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,600 film. I haven't seen son of the Pink 488 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:36,680 Panther, which was the what's the name Roberto Benini really? 489 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,880 OK, it's clue. So and that was that was in the 490 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:47,280 90s and Maria Gambrelli and that was played by Claudia Cardinali, 491 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,800 who played the Princess in the first Pink Panther film. 492 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,840 Right, of course, yes. So there you go. 493 00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:01,200 Filming of Shot the Dart began in November 1963 and completed 494 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:06,280 in January the following year. So presumably Sellers heard of 495 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,680 the death of JFK while on set while filming. 496 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,520 I suppose so, yeah. This this was this was this 497 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,840 pretty strange love or or post strange love filming wise? 498 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:23,440 This was this was post. OK, so what's the story here? 499 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:30,080 I tried to find verification but right so the first Test 500 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:35,160 screening of Strangelove was scheduled for November 22nd, 501 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:36,720 1963. OK. 502 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,560 And obviously it was cancelled because of something else that 503 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,360 happened that day to JS. Who was on? 504 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,880 Oh yes, that. And the Telegoons. 505 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,960 But isn't there a story? We may have discussed it when 506 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,960 you came on to talk about Doctor Strangelove, that JFK had a 507 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:59,160 private screening of Strangelove like days before Dallas. 508 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,920 That rings a bell, yes. Yeah. 509 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,440 Does ring a bell? I'm sure that I should have 510 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:10,080 listened to the podcaster to check, but but also Sellers had 511 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,360 met Kennedy. There's a there's a photograph 512 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:17,800 of Sellers at the White House with JFK and with Super Mac with 513 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,280 Harold Macmillan. Yeah, it's, that's some, some 514 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,800 soiree, some, some event, some dinner. 515 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,840 And on the day, the day that JFK was was assassinated, Sellers 516 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,000 was interviewed in the Evening Standard and he was talking 517 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,160 about his success. I'm not going to read out the 518 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,240 whole thing, but there's a little quote here which made me 519 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:44,000 kind of smile, He said, he said it was only 1948 that I was 520 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,280 appearing at the Windmill Theatre. 521 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,760 You know, it's not a very long time ago. 522 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,520 And I've done it all on my own. No one has helped me. 523 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,880 Wow, I. Think Spike might have something 524 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,760 to say about that? He's only gives Spike a run for 525 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,000 his money in terms of that kind of friend washing. 526 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:06,000 Yes, and he'd worked with Kubrick by that point. 527 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,720 Of course he had. Yes, Yeah, he'd worked with 528 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,800 Guinness, his hero. He. 529 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,320 Worked with so many talented people the the Bolting brothers, 530 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:17,920 you know. Yes, of course, yeah. 531 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,240 Who really had to push for him to take the Fred Kite character 532 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,160 which won him a BAFTA? So it's it's not all down to 533 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:26,720 you, Pete. I've. 534 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,400 Said it already once. He's a funny lad, isn't he? 535 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:31,040 He's. A funny lad. 536 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,360 So a shot in the dark marks the first appearances of of Herbert 537 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:40,240 Long as Clouseau's long-suffering boss, 538 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:45,840 Commissioner Dreyfus, and also the first appearance of Clueso's 539 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,360 stalwart manservant Cato, played by Bert Kwark. 540 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,200 Harry Hill star Bert Kwark. That's right, better known as 541 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,160 Bert Kwark from last of the summer one yes, or if he'd 542 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,440 appeared in Harry Potter, it would be Harry Potter star. 543 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,560 Bert Kwark dies at whatever age he died, which really annoys me 544 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,680 when you see things like, you know, when Michael Gambon died, 545 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,360 it was Harry Potter star Michael Gambon not singing detective 546 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:16,760 star and lathe fancier Michael Gambon dies, You know which it 547 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,920 should have been. Yeah. 548 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,680 You know he collected lathes. I didn't know that. 549 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,640 No, that's quite. That's quite unusual. 550 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,200 Yeah. Yeah, I do like the the the gag 551 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,680 of introduce introducing Cato because we assume he's just an 552 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:37,640 assassin, because it just it it that that scene involves Cluso 553 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,040 just being attacked by this mysterious character. 554 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,360 And then the phone rings and he answers it. 555 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,800 Inspector, close those residents. 556 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,160 One moment, please. Commissioner Dreyfus. 557 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:54,320 Bert Quark said late. Later, he said Cater was a 558 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,760 physically very agile human being in those days. 559 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:03,800 So was Bert Quark. He looked at this a bit as well 560 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,679 when he the middle one that did yeah, the second or third one of 561 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:12,600 his attacks where he attacks them at the end of their date 562 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,360 and is knocked unconscious again. 563 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,120 And Peter Sellers drags him down some step, some steps his his 564 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,480 flat and and Bert Cox head does appear just to bounce off every 565 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:25,960 step. That's that's him actually just 566 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,280 being dragged feet first down the steps. 567 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,840 So his head is at the far end is bouncing off each of the steps. 568 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,600 And that looks genuine. And if there was, they were like 569 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,360 particularly lightweight stairs. Or if it was just he was dragged 570 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,920 down, he was actually dragged down some stairs. 571 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,880 I don't really know, but it was made me slight slightly made me 572 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,199 wince that did. Yes. 573 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,440 So we've got Katie, we've got Dreyfus making their their debut 574 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:57,520 and also Andre Moran as Dreyfus's assistant Francois. 575 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,640 Yes, who? Who I believe appeared in Doctor 576 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,680 Who. It's a Doctor Who connection. 577 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,520 I forget the name of the character, but I think he was 578 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,120 in, I forgot to look this up. I think he was in 10th Planet. 579 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,400 He was in one of the early Cyberman stories when it was 580 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,560 like an international, so the 10th planet or moon base when it 581 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:21,000 was an international base. And he was a local French or 582 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,080 Belgian. He he he was a British. 583 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,280 Yeah, he he was local to Britain and he would play French or 584 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,520 Belgian character. So he was in one of the Cyberman 585 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,320 stories, the early 60s, the 1960s Cyberman story. 586 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,680 So he's, he's the the Doctor Who actor of the piece. 587 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:42,240 OK, well, he was also famously in the gourmet night evening of 588 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:45,440 Fawlty Towers. Yes, of course he was. 589 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:50,560 Playing playing Andre, a local restauranteur. 590 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:57,440 So during filming, Casellas had just not long been divorced 591 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,760 around this time and he'd been working in Hollywood. 592 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,600 He flew back to film, shot the dark and was put up. 593 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:08,320 He's living at the Dorchester and the studio picked up the tab 594 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,640 and he was in the best suite. OK. 595 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,840 And I imagined he was having he was he was rinsing them for 596 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,120 every penny I. Can well imagine. 597 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:24,360 In January, so filming ended in January 1964, but a a newspaper 598 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:30,640 report from January 64 reports that Edwards and Sellers were 599 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,200 talking at that time about 1/3 Clouseau film. 600 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,840 But by the end of filming, certainly he and he and Edwards 601 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,680 were not talking. They weren't speaking and they 602 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,480 vowed never to work together again. 603 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,040 They were reunited four years later for the party though. 604 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,920 And and then obviously when both their careers were on the skids 605 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,240 by the mid 70s, they buried the hatchet, got the band back 606 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:59,840 together and made return the Pink Panther. 607 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,680 But but yeah, by the end of Shot in the Dark, things were a bit 608 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,040 fraught and Sellers saw a rough cut off Shot in the Dark and 609 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:12,320 thought that it was a disaster as he kind of thought about 610 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,320 every film he made. I I feel. 611 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,520 Yes, I think he's he seemed very insecure, to put it mildly. 612 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,200 Yeah, that. Was maybe just stating stating 613 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,280 the bleeding obvious there Peter Sellers, you know, he seemed 614 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,480 quite insecure he's. Odd man, isn't he? 615 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,200 The following month, so he's still at the at the Dorchester 616 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,800 in in February 64 he meets Britt Britt Eckland and apparently 617 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,080 Michael Caine was supposed to have been going out with her on 618 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,640 a date, right? But he'd not confirmed it. 619 00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:46,360 And somehow Sellers sellers people made contact with Britt 620 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,760 and invited her for a drink. So because she'd been blown out 621 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:54,560 by Michael Caine, she went and met Sellers instead and and they 622 00:37:54,560 --> 00:38:00,800 actually went out to see the Pink Panther at the cinema and 623 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,320 the rest is history. And then of course, as we know, 624 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,800 there was a whirlwind romance and on the 8th of April, so 625 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:12,360 literally, you know, two months later, Sellers had his series of 626 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,280 heart attacks in Hollywood. Right. 627 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,200 OK. So that's still still upcoming. 628 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:21,000 Yeah, and just slight little tangent before we start talking 629 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,680 about the film in more detail. The April 1964 edition of 630 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:29,280 Playboy features Sellers on the cover dressed up as Rudolph 631 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,040 Valentino. OK. 632 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,200 And so I just thought I wonder how much that would be to buy. 633 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,880 You know I looked on eBay to see if it was that actual issue of 634 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,880 Playboy was available only for the sellers content I of. 635 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,240 Course, yes, right. And the articles. 636 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,160 Yeah, yeah, yeah. By John Updike and Norman Mailer 637 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,720 and people like that. And it's on eBay. 638 00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:57,640 It is on eBay for 15 of your English pounds so I'm not 639 00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,800 stretching to that. No, but it says I just want to 640 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,120 read this eBay listing because it's the last line that had me 641 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,160 howling. So on eBay Playboy for April 642 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,080 1964. Peter Sellers minds the great 643 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,560 movie lovers. Ian Fleming's James Bond Double 644 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:18,360 O 7 in You Only Live Twice, which was I checked that was the 645 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:23,080 book was published by Jonathan Cape in the UK in March 64. 646 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:29,480 OK, then, it says Playmates of 1956 Revisited interview with 647 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:33,080 Jean Genet, so I'd have read it for that. 648 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:40,720 Yes. Little Annie, Fanny and Playmate 649 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,440 Ashlyn Martin. All. 650 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,040 Right. And then it says very good 651 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:50,160 condition, like to moderate general wear, centrefold present 652 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:54,000 and attached right, slight musty smell. 653 00:39:54,120 --> 00:40:01,440 Oh no, 15 lbs. Sold. 654 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,520 Sold to the gentleman in the Mac. 655 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,760 So we should talk about the film. 656 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,520 I mean, we've talked about bits, haven't we? 657 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,480 But yes. Well, actually, while we're on 658 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,680 British TV science fiction, we have another British TV science 659 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,640 fiction actor in here if, if you know who it is I'm going to 660 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,720 refer to. Oh, let me think, let me think, 661 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:27,280 let me think, let me think. Oh, Reginald Beckwith. 662 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:33,520 Maybe, but it's Martin Benson who plays Maurice and he played 663 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,480 the head vogue on the poetry reading Vogue on in the TV 664 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,360 version, I think the radio version of Hitchhiker's Guide to 665 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,680 the Galaxy. Yes, I had him down as being in 666 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,560 Hitchhikers, yeah. He has an excellent face. 667 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,280 It's a good, sinister European face, even though he's British. 668 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,320 A face like a sack of anvils. Well, we're on the cast. 669 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,120 We've mentioned El Kissam, We've got George Sanders playing 670 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:05,240 Benjamin Balon, who's the the millionaire owner of the Chateau 671 00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:06,840 in which all these murders occur. 672 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,520 And George Sanders, I suppose, best known to do best remembered 673 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,720 today, really, is the voice of Shah Khan in The Jungle Book. 674 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,640 That'd be fair. Yeah, I think, I think probably 675 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,040 so and the the the basis for grit pipe thin as well. 676 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:25,160 Yes, absolutely. He was Mr. Freeze and Batman, 677 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,360 the TV series, although there was a couple of them, wasn't 678 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,320 there? There's a couple of actors that 679 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,960 played Mr. Freeze I believe. I'm not the I'm not the Batman 680 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,680 expert, sadly. OK, he was in the Rebel, of 681 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,520 course, which I rewatched recently. 682 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:42,120 Rebecca, A film called Operation Snatch, which I'm just including 683 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,000 so I can snigger. Ivanhoe, Manhunt. 684 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,400 And the interesting thing about George Sanders, do you know 685 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,600 about his death? Vaguely, yes. 686 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,240 What do you know? Well, I think it's complicated, 687 00:41:57,240 --> 00:41:58,800 isn't it? Because it was always this idea 688 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:03,160 that he he killed himself because he was bored or these 689 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,160 suicide notes said he was bored. I think actually it was more 690 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,800 complicated than that, that he did have quite a lot of 691 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,680 debilitating health problems. So I think it's possibly more to 692 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,200 do with the fact that he was, it wasn't just like this is a 693 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,160 really dull afternoon, more that like he would possibly be bored 694 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,640 of having to put up with all his health problems. 695 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,920 But that was always the story that went around suddenly in the 696 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:29,240 80s, I guess, amongst, certainly not at school, but but yeah, 697 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:33,440 amongst people who were into the old films and goon shows and 698 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,480 that sort of thing. Did you know George Sanders 699 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,160 committed suicide because he was bored? 700 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,200 That was always the that was always the story. 701 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,960 Yeah, I think, and there's also a suggestion that for years and 702 00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:48,640 years and years leading up to the day that he actually did 703 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,880 kill himself, years he'd been saying right when I reached 704 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,360 whatever age he was, when he died. 705 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,440 I'm not sure what age he was, let's say 63, probably 706 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,080 completely out there, but for years before he was saying when 707 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,040 I reach 63, I'm kidding myself. Right. 708 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,240 I didn't know about that. Yeah, I think, I think that's 709 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:08,360 the story. But obviously yes what you say 710 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:13,360 about him being bored as well. Whoever was in that closet 711 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,280 opened the door and knocked Maria unconscious, and whoever 712 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,000 the man was that was in that closet had a reason to be in 713 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,600 that closet. I remember the man. 714 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,040 Because we found his fingerprints. 715 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:31,720 Missy Bellon and they were your fingerprints. 716 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:33,520 Why not? It's my house. 717 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,560 I've often been in that closet. For what reason? 718 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:37,680 Last time was moths. Moths. 719 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,160 Moths. Yes, moths. 720 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:44,920 Maria was complaining of mirths. You mentioned they've got a cast 721 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,080 member from Doctor Strangelove in this, which is I assume 722 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,720 you're talking about Tracy Reed. I am indeed the only woman in 723 00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:53,840 Doctor Strangelove. Yes, yes, it's quite a small 724 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:55,400 role in this. Even though she plays Madame 725 00:43:55,400 --> 00:44:00,040 Balon, George Sanders wife, it's not a huge role. 726 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:01,720 She only gets a couple of scenes. 727 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,920 She feels like somebody whose role has been trimmed, like she 728 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,720 was in it more in a longer version or a longer cut. 729 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,960 Possibly, possibly. Yeah, yeah. 730 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:16,760 Because you'd think of the the wife of the main antagonist. 731 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,120 Is he in the antagon? I mean, I don't know if Dreyfus 732 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,880 is the main antagonist, but you know, the wife of the main 733 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,880 audience suspect. Yes, that. 734 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,880 She would have a a bigger role and she seemed she seemed more 735 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,040 important in the story than the screen time that she was 736 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,520 allowed. Yeah, I think Tracy Read's an 737 00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,560 interesting. She seemed to be one of those 738 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:40,400 names that crops up in a lot of 60s films and early 70s films 739 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,080 without ever really being the star. 740 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,520 Let let's let's just talk the the you know, the the right, the 741 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:51,520 pre credits sequence, the film. And this is where I was watching 742 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,240 it again. I was thinking 10 or 11 year old 743 00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:59,000 me might have got might have got bored very quickly because 744 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,560 you've got this, this what is it? 745 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,960 5 minute pre credit sequence which is basically just showing 746 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,560 you lots. Of middle-aged people sneaking 747 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:11,280 around romantically in a Chateau whilst whilst the woman croons a 748 00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:16,520 very repetitive song. Oh, Shadows of Paris, Yes, yeah, 749 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,840 it's and and it's must have been tricky to film that. 750 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:22,280 Because it's all on take, isn't it? 751 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:24,080 Yeah, yeah. So what would you call it? 752 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,480 The camera choreography must have been well worked out. 753 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,960 It's the comedy equivalent of Touch of Evil. 754 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:36,280 Yes, yes. And it's kind of like, yeah, 755 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,920 it's it's like a a typical French sex farce, I suppose. 756 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,120 Or maybe sex comedy. Would you call it I? 757 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,000 Noted it down as being the most 60s possible opening until we 758 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,560 get to the cartoon, which is then now the most 60s possible 759 00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:54,360 opening. Yeah, 60s comedy films up until 760 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:59,600 about 1966, Yeah, almost. It was obligatory to have an 761 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,840 animated credit sequence, and in this case, it's depati freling. 762 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,840 Is it freling? Yeah, I guess it's Fritz. 763 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:10,920 Fritz Freling or Fritz Freling? Yeah, which is which is which is 764 00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,320 charming. And obviously you've got the the 765 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,280 shot, the dark theme, which is again, Henry Mancini, who did 766 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,360 the Pink Panther thing. He's for me, he's the third one 767 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:24,160 in the team that he, he, he's, he's the, the, the three people 768 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,440 who who really make Pink Panther films, Pink Panther films at 769 00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,920 Sellers, Blake Edwards and Henry Mancini. 770 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,720 I think they're the, that's the, that's the triumvirate. 771 00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:35,200 Is that right word? Yes, that sounds about right, 772 00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:38,120 yeah. That's your your, your vital 773 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:43,000 trio at the core of the core of what makes a Cluso film a Cluso 774 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,160 film. Yes. 775 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,680 And when we first see Cluso, he's been wrongly or 776 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,200 accidentally assigned to the case because Miguel, the 777 00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:56,040 chauffeur has been shot dead in the shutter and Clouseau has 778 00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,240 been assigned to it. In the first shot you see of 779 00:46:58,240 --> 00:47:01,960 him, he's just him in the back seat of the car looking, trying 780 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:06,480 to look cool and determined. And that's completely undercut 781 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,760 the next scene. He he gets out of the car and 782 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,560 immediately falls in the fountain. 783 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,120 He's swallowing in the water, I suppose. 784 00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,920 Hadn't thought of that. Yeah, but this first sequence 785 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:24,600 where he's interviewing Maria and Maurice, I think. 786 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,320 Is. Brilliant, I think because 787 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:33,280 there's just so much business, so much little, little comedy 788 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,320 business. You can tell Sellers is at this 789 00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,240 point, I mean, I haven't seen any of the other the other 790 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,360 Clouseau films recently, but at this point he's really invested 791 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:46,960 in putting everything into it. So there is he's doing something 792 00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,200 all the time, but he's never phoning it in in this film, 793 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:51,600 right? There's plenty of films he does 794 00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,240 phone it in. I don't know as clues whether he 795 00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:56,320 does with the Clueso films, but certainly in this one he's 796 00:47:56,320 --> 00:48:00,040 making the most of every gag and even the silliest gags he makes 797 00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,080 them land. And I'm sure that there's a 798 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,960 couple of ad libs, sellers, ad libs in this scene with Maria 799 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,920 Gambrelli in her room. There's the bit where she says 800 00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,840 you're all wet. Is it raining? 801 00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,160 No, it's just the stupid driver of mine parked too close to the 802 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:16,640 fountain. You should get out of these 803 00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,160 clothes immediately you catch your death of pneumonia. 804 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,040 You will. Yes, yes, I probably will, but 805 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:24,800 it's all part of life's rich pageant, you know? 806 00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,440 That's a seller's line. I just something. 807 00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,320 About it, yes, yeah. Also the bit later on where he 808 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,680 gets, I mean, this pulled me out of it slightly because it's an 809 00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,840 out of character line. It's not saying that, Clouseau 810 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,440 would say. It's very much a Peter Teller 811 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,400 thing when he gets his hand trapped in the globe. 812 00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,160 In the opposite, he says, nurse screens. 813 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,080 That is just directly lifted from the Goon show. 814 00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:48,880 Isn't it? Yes, but Clouseau wouldn't say 815 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,200 that in that. No. 816 00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,200 Text at all nurse screens, please. 817 00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,680 As he extricates his hand from the globe, he then says, look, 818 00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,000 I've got Africa all over my hand. 819 00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,240 And you can see that. The scene quite quickly fades as 820 00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:02,680 Stark tries not to laugh. Get. 821 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,520 Me out of here, there's some screams. 822 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:16,720 Look, I've got Africa all over my hand now. 823 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:19,040 Elkisema corpses. At one point I. 824 00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,520 Don't know if you notice that. Yes, after he. 825 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,840 Tears this is a bit later on in the film after he tears his 826 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,840 trousers he's he's put his key into the lock, but his key is 827 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,720 attached to his trousers and then he closes the drawer the 828 00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,240 the the drawer that was formerly locked. 829 00:49:33,240 --> 00:49:35,120 He closes it and his trousers tear. 830 00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,480 And yes, she she visibly corpses. 831 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:41,080 But I think it still works because in that situation the 832 00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,480 character probably would be laughing at that anyway, so it's 833 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,080 quite nice. But if you think the the the 834 00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:50,800 next clues, well, the next Sellers clueso film, which is 835 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,640 return of the Pink Panther, which is what 11 years later? 836 00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,160 Famously, there's the scene with, well, there's a couple of 837 00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:06,000 scenes with Catherine Shell corpsing at at Sellers business 838 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,000 and they've, and there's there's one famous scene where Cliche is 839 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,800 in disguise, trying to chat her up, trying to get information 840 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,560 out of her. And the actress just can't stop 841 00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,240 laughing. And Edwards in the end left it 842 00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:23,520 in because that was they they couldn't do it without her 843 00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:24,720 laughing. And they just thought, Oh well, 844 00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:26,640 it's quite charming, so let's just leave it in. 845 00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,360 Yeah, same with Peter Bull and Doctor Strangelove of course. 846 00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:33,120 I wonder if Peter Sellers is is responsible for the most on 847 00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,080 screen corpsing in feature films? 848 00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:39,640 Quite, quite possibly, quite possibly that someone needs to 849 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,560 write a monograph on that or a thesis. 850 00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,960 Yeah, just in that scene with the trouser ripping and the the 851 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:53,600 arm of his jacket coming off. I love little, little touches 852 00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:59,040 like he's he's he's talking to Hercule earlier in the scene. 853 00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:04,600 And as he's talking to him, he walks around his desk to the 854 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,600 window and he stands next to a framed photograph on the wall of 855 00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,680 Clue. So being decorated by Charles de 856 00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:12,960 Gaulle. Oh, yes. 857 00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,600 Which was apparently created by unit stills photographer Norman 858 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,360 Grace. Be it, I think it's pronounced 859 00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,440 little touches, little details like that. 860 00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,760 I, I really like he also by mistake. 861 00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,640 And I don't know if it's intentional. 862 00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,360 In the script he calls. At one point he calls Hercule 863 00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,240 Miguel, did you notice? Oh, he does, doesn't he? 864 00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:41,680 Yes, Yeah, actually, no, I, I I assumed it was deliberate, but 865 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,280 now you come to mention it might not have been. 866 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,720 But he he makes it work because it is just it's part of who. 867 00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:49,400 So getting increasingly flustered. 868 00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:54,720 Yeah, going back to the scene with Maria Gambrelli in her room 869 00:51:55,360 --> 00:52:00,040 when he lights a cigarette and he puts the lit lighter back in 870 00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,480 his pocket and then basically sets his coat on fire. 871 00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:06,600 Now hang on, how's his coat gone on fire? 872 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:08,800 It's. Soaking wet, I noticed that. 873 00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,280 Too. And also, George Sanders doesn't 874 00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:15,760 even attempt a French accent, does he? 875 00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,880 Let's face it now, I assumed he was supposed to be English, but 876 00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:20,080 no, he's Monsieur Balon, isn't he? 877 00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,840 Of course, yes. But he's, he's making no, no 878 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,560 attempt. I mean, if, if you, if you're 879 00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,640 watching George Sanders, you want, you want the full George 880 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,160 Sanders. You don't want him doing a 881 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,200 ruining his lovely mellifluous voice with a cod French accent. 882 00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,920 No, you want you want the full thing you do. 883 00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,160 Going back to what you said about the he, he parks up and 884 00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,000 comes out of, you know, the very start of this scene, the car 885 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,400 parks up and immediately gets out and falls into the water. 886 00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:48,200 I think that's one of the well that's I think that's the 887 00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,120 trademark comedy certainly of this film. 888 00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,640 The trademark comedy style is that there's no, none of the 889 00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:57,760 gags that I can remember are set up and then paid off later. 890 00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,400 They're all all that I remember immediate set up and then 891 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,280 immediately paid off, which in a way makes them funnier. 892 00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:06,880 So it's the scene. I think I laughed the bit I 893 00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,000 laughed the hardest at was the bit where he knows he's in his 894 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,640 office and he knows that Maria Gambrelli is coming in back at 895 00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,080 this stage. I mean, immediately he gets a 896 00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,920 bit of a crush on it because he's he's quite close to the 897 00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:19,280 real Peter Sellers in that regard. 898 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,800 Probably that's true. He's very excited about the real 899 00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,800 about Maria Gambrelli coming to coming to his office. 900 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:30,560 So he he carefully positions a chair for her to sit in, goes 901 00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,200 over to the blind, pulls the blind down, turns around and 902 00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:34,760 immediately falls over the chair. 903 00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,360 He's just positioned, which I hooted at. 904 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,320 And I think other films might go, oh, he's going to fall over 905 00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:42,800 that chair. Just you wait, he's going to 906 00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:44,280 fall out. Watch he's going to fall over 907 00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,560 the chair. But this film he immediately 908 00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,800 does it. And there's another bit in the 909 00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:54,920 very fit end scene or the, the the big climactic whodunnit 910 00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:59,680 scene where he's addressing all the the assembled suspects and 911 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:03,360 he opens a set of double doors to check there's no one there, 912 00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,440 closes them, puts his hands in his pockets, then leans back 913 00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:11,520 against the door and immediately falls through, which is great. 914 00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:14,440 So I like that that that it isn't. 915 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:19,400 It's its own sort of unique take of of just the gag immediately 916 00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:23,200 happening. Millie Here's a few comedy 917 00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:28,400 scenes with doors in this film. There's the bit where he's 918 00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:33,120 knocked Cato out or whatever and and he kicks open the door of 919 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:36,120 the kitchen triumphantly and then turns to say something else 920 00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,000 to Cato and turns back. Just the door smacks him in the 921 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:39,960 face. And we don't see it. 922 00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:43,480 We see it from the from the inside of the kitchen. 923 00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:48,440 There's also when he it's just the pool scene when he, Oh yeah, 924 00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,520 storms out of the pool room but on the wrong side of the door. 925 00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:57,040 Yes, which I remember thinking that was the funniest thing when 926 00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,480 I was a kid. I didn't know comedy could do 927 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:05,040 that. Although I think I'm right in 928 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:10,840 saying from memory that there's a recurring gag, if you like, in 929 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:12,520 this film. There's a few recurring gags, 930 00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,320 but there's one specific one that I thought was the funniest 931 00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:22,240 thing is when Clouseau keeps releasing Maria Gambrelli from 932 00:55:22,240 --> 00:55:26,680 prison, all these subsequent murders keep occurring and she 933 00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,840 keeps going back to prison. And then he keeps, he keeps 934 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,840 releasing her because he wants to follow her because he's 935 00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:36,040 convinced she's shielding the true murderer for whatever 936 00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:40,040 misguided reason. But every time he releases her, 937 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:44,280 he's he's outside the prison in disguise. 938 00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,800 And the first time it's I think he's a balloon cellar. 939 00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:54,960 And then he's a street artist and a policeman comes up on both 940 00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:56,760 occasions and says, do you have a license? 941 00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,800 And then license. And then smash cut to this 942 00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,000 friendship government of a black Mariah. 943 00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:10,440 With those stupid sirens speeding off to jail even it's 944 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,040 it's an unlicensed balloon cellar, but he'd be still being 945 00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:18,440 speed off to jail at high speed. Yes, True. 946 00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:26,360 Never thought of that. Yeah, It's not like he's a, it's 947 00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:30,160 not like he's been. He's been discovered with a 948 00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:31,720 bloody knife in his hand above a. 949 00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:35,760 Corpse. So he never just says I'm a 950 00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:37,440 policeman. No. 951 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,520 And then and then it happens, it happens twice. 952 00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:42,720 And then it happens two other times. 953 00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:47,920 Once when he when he's dressed as a hunter and he doesn't have 954 00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:52,640 a hunting licence. And then finally when when he 955 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:57,880 and Maria Gambrelli stuck in a in a traffic smile up naked in 956 00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:00,640 his incluso his mini. And she gets the screaming AB 957 00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:06,200 dabs. Yes, I just remember thinking as 958 00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,680 a child that was so. It was the repetition that made 959 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,480 it funny more than anything else, I think. 960 00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:12,480 Yes. And there's also, there's also 961 00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:17,160 always the the gag of whatever's on the back of the police van as 962 00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,160 it's speeding away. So the first time it's the 963 00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:22,440 balloons floating out the back. When it's after he gets picked 964 00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:25,240 up for being the hunter, the dead crow is hanging from the 965 00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:28,440 back just kind of dangling. Then the final time after they 966 00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:30,880 get picked up for being naked, it's it's three policemen 967 00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:33,280 attached to back and staring. Yeah. 968 00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,320 You have a license to sell these balloons. 969 00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:59,470 License. And incidentally, listeners will 970 00:57:59,470 --> 00:58:01,910 have heard me right at the top of the show just before the the 971 00:58:01,910 --> 00:58:04,830 theme tune paying homage to these sequences. 972 00:58:05,190 --> 00:58:08,470 And I want to thank the brilliant actor Paul Putner for 973 00:58:08,830 --> 00:58:12,390 so kindly lending his considerable acting and vocal 974 00:58:12,390 --> 00:58:15,750 skills to the scene. Paul, thanks mate, Appreciate 975 00:58:15,750 --> 00:58:18,400 it. The the billiard scene is 976 00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:22,800 inspired, of course. I have to say I I really as a as 977 00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,400 a clumsy person, I really empathize hard with the scene 978 00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,320 where he's trying to put the all the cues back into the rack. 979 00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:31,200 But he does at that point and that is, it is in that scene 980 00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,880 that what that scene where the where Clouseau demonstrates that 981 00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:39,360 he has actually done some proper detective work for once because 982 00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:44,240 he's checked Balon's alibi because because the night of the 983 00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:48,560 murder, Balon said that he flew in from London on a on a 11:00 984 00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:52,360 flight or something like that. And, and Clusso says, well, I 985 00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:53,920 checked and that flight was cancelled. 986 00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:57,200 I put it to you that it was, you know, blah, blah, blah. 987 00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:00,560 And then and then Bell on kind of wrong foots him by saying 988 00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,280 it's not kind of shrugging. And still it's saying, well, 989 00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,720 well, I caught an earlier flight because I wanted to be with 990 00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:06,680 Maria Gambrali while my wife was out. 991 00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:13,760 And this kind of discombobulates Clusso, and there's that famous 992 00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:15,880 line. I submit Inspector Bellon. 993 00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:17,920 He calls him Inspector Bellon. You know it's that. 994 00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:21,680 I didn't notice. That, and I submit, Inspector 995 00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:26,160 Bellon, that you arrived home, found Miguel with Maria 996 00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:30,120 Gambrelli and killed him in a writ of fellas Jage. 997 00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:35,560 There's a very, very brief appearance by a later member of 998 00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:42,280 a very famous sitcom with a with a French Connection, Not the 999 00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,360 Fringe connection, but. Oh yes, I know who you mean 1000 00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,440 because I saw the name in the credits but I didn't spot who it 1001 00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:52,520 was. So for some reason, I'm not 1002 00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:59,600 quite sure why Clouseau wants to go because Madame Bell on Tracy 1003 00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:03,440 Reed has gone off the the the the she almost runs over 1004 01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:09,200 Clouseau and her kill as she drives off somewhere and 1005 01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:11,080 Clouseau wants to question her, I guess. 1006 01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:15,040 So he. Goes to this rather swanky 1007 01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:19,160 apartment building where she's reportedly at. 1008 01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,680 I guess it's she's she's attending some sort of recital. 1009 01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:28,200 Is it some, some, something, some society event? 1010 01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:32,360 And this is the bit where he rushes through the door and goes 1011 01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,000 right through the window and down into the canal. 1012 01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:39,560 But the but the singer, the soprano is that I don't know. 1013 01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,880 Who it was? Is is Rose Hill? 1014 01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:46,080 Was the knobs, the knobs, the flashing? 1015 01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:53,360 Madam Fanny, that was her name, wasn't it from? 1016 01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:56,920 Was it from a lower low? Yeah, he was often in bed with 1017 01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,120 Jack Hague. Yes, that's right. 1018 01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:07,280 As Monsieur Leclaire, she was one of my favorite characters 1019 01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:10,160 from a lower low, actually. Oh yeah. 1020 01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:16,360 She she because she, she just, she didn't take any shit from 1021 01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:20,320 Renee, did she? That, I mean, that was a very 1022 01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,240 good. It got a bit as most British 1023 01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:25,080 sitcoms did. Eventually it kind of got a bit 1024 01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:26,800 silly and. It did, yes. 1025 01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:30,320 Unravelled. But the early ones, same with 1026 01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,200 like last, the Summer Wine, like the early ones are really, 1027 01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:34,360 really good. Yeah. 1028 01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,720 Before it just sort of started, a lot of, I think a lot of long 1029 01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,040 running British sitcoms just start to do the thing that they 1030 01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:43,880 do. But before, before they've 1031 01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:47,080 decided upon the thing that is that they do, they're they're 1032 01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,600 often quite inventive and quite tightly written and interesting. 1033 01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:52,440 And I think that's one of them. Yeah. 1034 01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:57,200 It was just, yeah, it was just a bit kind of lazy farce. 1035 01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:00,080 Which is a bit like what happened with the Clueso 1036 01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:01,400 franchise. Yes. 1037 01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:06,480 By the end, by Revenge, it was fart gags more or less. 1038 01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,680 Well, actually on that, on that thought, it's, it's, it's, it's 1039 01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:14,720 a thought I had about Clouseau. And and Clouseau isn't written 1040 01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:19,120 as a full clown yet. And you, you, you often see many 1041 01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:24,520 comedy characters there. There are several essay videos 1042 01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:28,080 on YouTube about Homer Simpson as an example of that, or even 1043 01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:33,440 something sort of well respected and quite recent like Friday 1044 01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:35,000 Night Dinner. There's a couple of characters 1045 01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:41,280 in that Martin and Jim start off seeming like quite rounded human 1046 01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:46,040 beings and by the end of it are clowns just doing comedy things 1047 01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:47,720 rather than acting like real people. 1048 01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:53,000 And Homer Simpson is is the platonic ideal, I think is maybe 1049 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,880 the word. Yeah, because you've you've got 1050 01:02:56,160 --> 01:03:00,120 Golden era Simpsons, Homer and Simpsons, which is really 1051 01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:03,120 series, series 3 to series eight maybe. 1052 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,800 And then and then you start getting what they what they now 1053 01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,640 refer to as Jackass Homer. Yes. 1054 01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:13,440 He's just grass. That's it where he his only 1055 01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:16,680 function is to be the cartoon Homer Simpson. 1056 01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:21,440 So in in the early days and in golden era, he's playing an A 1057 01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:27,600 recognizable, exaggerated archetype of that kind of post 1058 01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:31,840 glory days Boomer. So post post sixties 70s, he's 1059 01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:34,640 he's an 80s boomer, essentially, which I think is also without 1060 01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:40,120 wanting to, to get into a too much into a, a Simpsons essay. 1061 01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:44,160 I think that's possibly a, a big reason why modern Simpsons 1062 01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:48,040 doesn't work because they have to keep the characters the same 1063 01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:52,400 age, but update them generation in hom Homer just isn't he's not 1064 01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:54,920 a millennial, he's he's a boomer. 1065 01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,760 That's his, that's his, that's what he's representing. 1066 01:03:57,760 --> 01:03:59,320 And that's what he's the, he's the archetype. 1067 01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:03,240 He's a he's of that free electric band generation that 1068 01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:05,200 happened. Yeah, because he was listening 1069 01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:10,560 to Queen at college when they wear flashbacks to his youth. 1070 01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:14,360 Yeah, and I think Marge was in like the the peace movement and 1071 01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:15,880 everything for the Vietnam War. Oh yeah. 1072 01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,320 Yeah, yeah, yeah. In fact, he saw the moon 1073 01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:19,840 landing, didn't he as a child? That's right. 1074 01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:21,600 Yes, Well, he would. No, he didn't. 1075 01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,080 His dad was watching it and he was listening to I think sugar, 1076 01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:25,680 Sugar by the archies. If if my. 1077 01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:27,040 Yes. Was it yummy? 1078 01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:28,720 Yummy, yummy. One of the Yeah, he's listening 1079 01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:33,880 to bubble gum pop. And and then by, I don't know, 1080 01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:38,480 season 1516, he's into grunge something. 1081 01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:40,920 Yeah, he's not Gen. X and he's not a millennial. 1082 01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:42,800 He's tried being a Gen. X and he's tried being a 1083 01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:46,640 Renault, but that's not the it's he's not an archetype of those 1084 01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:49,120 generations. He's he's he only works as an 1085 01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:54,040 architect, the same way that Mr. Burns only works as a Edwardian 1086 01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:58,320 and Grandpa only works as somebody who fought in World War 1087 01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:01,960 Two or was around in the 20s and a young man in the 30s. 1088 01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:04,360 Yeah. That those characters don't 1089 01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:07,160 really work shifted forwards in time. 1090 01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:10,560 And I think that's a big reason that that he that Homer has just 1091 01:05:10,560 --> 01:05:14,520 become the cartoon Homer Simpson rather than anything resembling 1092 01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:18,560 a real human being, which is possibly not why it happened to 1093 01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:20,160 Clouseau. But I think it's interesting in 1094 01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:24,080 this film, you know, having more of an idea of Clouseau from the 1095 01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:29,200 other films that a he's he's a moderately OK police detective. 1096 01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:33,280 He's not brilliant. He's not Colombo, but he's OK at 1097 01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:36,080 his job. And he's for the wrong reasons. 1098 01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:40,320 But he's correct in because all the the whole the the recurring 1099 01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:45,120 scenes of him saying the facts are the case to to Hercule all 1100 01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:48,160 the facts of the case point very definitely to the fact that Elke 1101 01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:52,960 Summers is the murderer and on that strength, you know, 1102 01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:56,080 circumstantially. But it's it's looking very, very 1103 01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:58,560 likely that she's the murderer. Of course we know she's not 1104 01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:02,560 because she's Elke Summer and he's infatuated with her. 1105 01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:04,680 So he doesn't believe her. She's the murderer. 1106 01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:07,920 But he's correct. He's made to look a bit stupid 1107 01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:12,240 for the fact that in the face of overwhelming evidence, he 1108 01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:14,800 refuses to believe that she could possibly be the murderer. 1109 01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:17,160 But he's correct. He's correct, isn't he? 1110 01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:20,480 Absolutely, yeah. But also the whole what the the 1111 01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:24,080 bit that I that possibly the bit I almost enjoyed the most just 1112 01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:29,960 for its its own sake, was the date scene where he goes on an 1113 01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:31,720 extender. It's about 10 minutes of the 1114 01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:35,760 runtime. He goes On this date with Maria 1115 01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:40,760 Gambrelli and interestingly, they both have a lovely time. 1116 01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:42,560 They don't know. So there's murders happening in 1117 01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:44,240 the background. It's it's it's quite it's 1118 01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:48,240 actually quite dark, but they don't notice the murders and 1119 01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:51,920 they have a lovely time and he actually seems like a really fun 1120 01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,560 date. They have a really nice time to 1121 01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:57,440 get. So he's not play he there's 10 1122 01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,920 or 15 minutes where he doesn't ruin anything. 1123 01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,440 He's he's he's he's the romantic lead in the film. 1124 01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:07,560 And she because she's quite a, quite a goofy cat, not goofy, 1125 01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:11,120 but she's not she's she's they're they're a, they're a 1126 01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,040 sweet couple, I think. Yeah, they are. 1127 01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:14,520 Yeah, she's got. No, there's not. 1128 01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:16,000 There's no side to her or anything. 1129 01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,440 And and yeah, Cluso doesn't do anything wrong. 1130 01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:24,840 It's just the the assassin. Yes, that's it. 1131 01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:28,920 Who we can spoilers, who we come to realize later is is Dreyfus 1132 01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:32,280 the assassin has got really poor shot. 1133 01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:33,800 It's a really poor shot, basically. 1134 01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:37,080 The the date is ruined, but by two other people who aren't 1135 01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:40,640 actually on the date. It's Cato eventually ruins the 1136 01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:42,960 date. Well, it's a combination of Cato 1137 01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:46,280 and and Dreyfus, because Dreyfus leaves a bomb in the flat and 1138 01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:49,000 then Cato attacks them. It's them that ruins the date. 1139 01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,120 But they're having a lovely time and they're they're really well 1140 01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:54,440 suited to each other and they have great chemistry and she's 1141 01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:57,040 not upset by anything he does, which you think probably in the 1142 01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:59,800 later films, it would likely be will bring as much comedy out of 1143 01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:01,800 this as we can. But it's at that point kind of 1144 01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:06,720 the the outright gag rate stops and we but not in a bad way. 1145 01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,360 But we just have a, you know, see them having a really fun day 1146 01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,760 together and and work. And even he seems less clumsy 1147 01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:16,880 when he's really drunk, because the only slightly clumsy thing 1148 01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:20,160 is that he he's carrying her up to his room and he lightly bumps 1149 01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:23,359 her head, but she doesn't mind. It's not a proper bonk and it's 1150 01:08:23,359 --> 01:08:26,160 not really played as a gag. And it maybe even was just part 1151 01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:30,040 of, you know, actually when they were filming it that he did 1152 01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,640 that. But she doesn't like, it's not a 1153 01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:35,479 proper noise that you get or anything like that. 1154 01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:38,000 And a coconut colliding sort of thing. 1155 01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:41,560 And he's, he look, he's, you know, he's almost going to, 1156 01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:44,000 they're almost going to go all the way. 1157 01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,600 And then and then like you say, KJ ruins it. 1158 01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:48,040 And then, and then there's the bomb. 1159 01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:52,080 And. And just on bomb there's there's 1160 01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:55,080 little flourishes, little linguistic flourishes that 1161 01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:59,319 sellers is is bringing into the accent of clueso like berm and. 1162 01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:02,399 Berm and mirth. Mirth and that, but it's not as 1163 01:09:02,399 --> 01:09:06,880 pronounced, no pun intended, as it would become in later films. 1164 01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:08,960 The. Yes, it's not full Crabtree. 1165 01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:11,640 No, no, it's not getting back to All Out, though. 1166 01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:18,479 Also in that date scene, nice little appearance by the actor 1167 01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:22,279 Toot Lemkoff. He's been in a number of Sellers 1168 01:09:22,279 --> 01:09:24,479 films that we've talked about on Goon Pod. 1169 01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:30,040 He was in wrong Arm of the Law, he was in the wrong box. 1170 01:09:32,319 --> 01:09:35,800 He was in something else, which I've forgotten, but he was in. 1171 01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:39,080 He's worked with Sellers before. Which character does he play? 1172 01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,920 He's the Cossack. I didn't show them that right. 1173 01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:46,760 But I suppose the sequence of this film that most people 1174 01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:51,240 remember is the camp sunshine. Yes. 1175 01:09:51,279 --> 01:09:54,120 Which is a nudist camp. Nudist colony? 1176 01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:58,480 I don't quite know why Maria Gambrali goes there, do you? 1177 01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:02,040 I mean, I have an idea why Blake Blake. 1178 01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:04,560 Blake Seven. I have an idea why Blake Edwards 1179 01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:09,320 your Terry Nation. I I have an idea why Blake 1180 01:10:09,320 --> 01:10:14,680 Edwards wanted I could to go there, but no, it yeah, I 1181 01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:17,480 couldn't quite what I mean. I I just say it's pretty, even 1182 01:10:17,480 --> 01:10:20,960 if it's the most, It's probably my least favorite scene in the 1183 01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:23,440 film. Oh, really? 1184 01:10:23,440 --> 01:10:25,240 OK. Just because it's it's just kind 1185 01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:27,680 of the one gag that now he's in the nude. 1186 01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,560 Yes, well, there's a nice little that love the little bit where 1187 01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:39,200 Cluso is has just discovered the body of Doo Doo, the maid, yes, 1188 01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:44,320 who's for some reason being well, we later find out why 1189 01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:46,880 she's been killed. But anyway, and then and then 1190 01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:52,840 Maria Gambrelli is behind a hedge and she beckons closer 1191 01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:55,280 over and he walks around the hedge and as he walks around his 1192 01:10:55,280 --> 01:11:01,120 eyes widen as he takes her in in her in her all her glory. 1193 01:11:03,480 --> 01:11:06,200 Just I think he's faints. I just love that he's hilarious. 1194 01:11:06,440 --> 01:11:09,280 And then and then a little bit later, they're both behind a 1195 01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:10,640 tree. We don't see them, we just hear 1196 01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:11,720 them. And she says something like, I'm 1197 01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:13,360 so cold, look at those goose pimples. 1198 01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:16,600 And you just hear the single guitar chord. 1199 01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:18,880 What? Are we going to do? 1200 01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:20,880 We must do something. We can't live here without our 1201 01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:22,680 clothes. I'm getting cold. 1202 01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:24,480 Just look at those goose pimples. 1203 01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:29,440 But of course, we yes, we have to mention that joke doesn't 1204 01:11:29,440 --> 01:11:30,720 work. And if you don't know that he's 1205 01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:34,120 to preserve his modesty from the the camera, he's holding a 1206 01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:36,200 guitar. Well, he's holding Turk's 1207 01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:38,160 guitar. That's right, yes, he's borrowed 1208 01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:43,520 Brian Forbes guitar. Right, we've got to talk about 1209 01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:44,840 Turk Thrust. Yes. 1210 01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:50,080 What do you know about Turk Thrust do? 1211 01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:52,960 You know, I know, I know he's billed as an actor even though 1212 01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:54,440 he's actually played. But he's, you know, he's 1213 01:11:54,440 --> 01:11:57,280 building the cast at the start of the film and introducing Turk 1214 01:11:57,280 --> 01:12:00,440 Thrust, who's actually the film director, Brian Forbes, I 1215 01:12:00,440 --> 01:12:03,160 believe. Film director and actor Brian 1216 01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:06,960 Forbes, who was very good friends with Sellers, he and his 1217 01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:10,040 wife. Despite sellers behavior. 1218 01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:14,520 Well, yeah, despite Sellers wanting to swap wives with his 1219 01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:17,720 with Nanette, wanting Nanette Newman to go and live with him, 1220 01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:20,560 and wanting Missus Sellers to go and live with Brian Forbes. 1221 01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:27,360 But no, Brian Forbes was a very good friend, very loyal to 1222 01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:31,560 Sellers, and both he and Nanette did a lot for him in terms of 1223 01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:36,440 when Sellers was going through some, some bad periods, they 1224 01:12:36,440 --> 01:12:40,320 would often go around to his house to be with him and, you 1225 01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:44,400 know, make sure that he didn't do anything silly or whatever. 1226 01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,600 You know, so they, they talk him down from things basically. 1227 01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:53,080 So they were very close. And it was a couple of years 1228 01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:58,000 earlier, Sellers and Forbes were, were at an airport. 1229 01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:00,000 They were flying out somewhere, or they were flying in from 1230 01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:01,160 somewhere. I'm not quite sure. 1231 01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:08,600 But a journalist cornered them and asked them, you know, where 1232 01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:10,600 they'd been or where they were going or what they were doing. 1233 01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:15,960 And Sellers, just on the spot, said that they were flying to 1234 01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:21,640 Paris to sign up a new pop star. And the journalist said, what's 1235 01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:23,200 this? What's the pop star's name? 1236 01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:26,320 And Sellers said Turk thrust. Oh, really? 1237 01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:30,600 OK. And off the back of that, there 1238 01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:35,080 was a 1963 LP called Full Britannia that Sellers made with 1239 01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:39,760 Anthony Newly and Joan Collins, which was kind of based around 1240 01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:46,520 the whole perfumo business. And Turk Thrust's name appears 1241 01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:48,760 on that LP. OK. 1242 01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:52,760 And then of of course, they decide they want. 1243 01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:55,880 I guess Sellers must have insisted that Brian Forbes have 1244 01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:59,560 a cameo and Forbes agrees. And they decide it would be 1245 01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:03,800 funny if he builds himself as Turk Thrust and then. 1246 01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:07,080 And it is. It is, and then in The Curse of 1247 01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:11,080 the Pink Panther some 20 odd years later, Roger Moore comes 1248 01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:14,080 in and he's credited as Turk Thrust the 2nd. 1249 01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:15,680 Really. All that's nice. 1250 01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:21,280 But that bit with the ACT, I mean Sellers acting this one 1251 01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:25,120 thing he said about Sellers earlier about just how how the 1252 01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:28,520 character of Clouseau is in this film, not quite as madcap, not 1253 01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:31,760 quite as inept as as he would like to become. 1254 01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:38,600 Sellers acting is just so honed in this just so he's he's just 1255 01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:42,560 such a good actor in this film. The bit with Turk thrust when 1256 01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:45,960 the penny drops that he he can't get into this nudist colony 1257 01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:49,440 without taking his clothes off. It's just the, the look of 1258 01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:55,720 despairing resignation in his face, even though, right, he's 1259 01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:58,120 a, he's a, a, an inspector in the suite. 1260 01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:02,520 Surely he could. He could overrule that no nudity 1261 01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:04,520 rule, surely. I think most of this film 1262 01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:07,680 wouldn't happen if he just simply said, look, I'm a 1263 01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:09,240 policeman, OK? Yeah. 1264 01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:15,360 I mean most Colombo episodes as well. 1265 01:15:16,440 --> 01:15:19,480 Oh yeah. What is it now? 1266 01:15:19,480 --> 01:15:22,440 Colombo. But hang on, I'm a policeman. 1267 01:15:22,440 --> 01:15:24,160 You have to talk to me. There's been a murder. 1268 01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,480 There are, there are a few occasions in Colombo where he 1269 01:15:27,480 --> 01:15:31,000 does, what's the word pull rank, That's the wrong phrase. 1270 01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:35,640 But he does, he does assert himself, but it's always, it's 1271 01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:39,840 almost always when he's dealing with someone at the same level 1272 01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:43,320 as him in terms of class level social strata. 1273 01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:48,120 Yes, whenever he's dealing with the killer or or the people in 1274 01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:50,720 the killer's orbit who who always tend to be the sort of 1275 01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:53,080 the the the rich set. Yes. 1276 01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:56,480 Up across, he's always very deferential up until the point 1277 01:15:56,480 --> 01:15:58,200 when he has to kind of show his hand at the end. 1278 01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,080 Yes, apart from that one occasion. 1279 01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:02,960 There's the occasion where he kicks off at Landon Nimoy, which 1280 01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:07,400 is which is a brilliant scene. Oh, and yes, a stitch in crime. 1281 01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:10,960 Yes, yes. There's also a scene similar 1282 01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:15,880 scene in an episode set where there's a motor set at a gym and 1283 01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:18,520 it's with the actors, the actor called Robert Conrad, I think, 1284 01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:20,880 and he has a go at him as well. It really has a go at him. 1285 01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:22,280 I. Warned you in my office, don't 1286 01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:22,640 you? I. 1287 01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:24,960 Checked your alibi for the time before you got to the house. 1288 01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:27,200 It doesn't wash. A little off topic, but I really 1289 01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:30,960 like it because it's so rare when you actually see furious 1290 01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:34,280 Columbo and yeah, and the the Leonard Nimmo, when he actually 1291 01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:38,320 slams his hand on the table, it's like actual furious 1292 01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:41,000 Columbo. And it's because it's, in those 1293 01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:45,280 cases, I think it's because a second murder has either 1294 01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:49,960 happened or is about to happen that Colombo could have, Colombo 1295 01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:52,680 could have stopped if, if, if you know what I mean. 1296 01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:55,720 Yes. I, I think that's more or less 1297 01:16:55,720 --> 01:16:58,240 the reason that he. Yeah, the mask slips. 1298 01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:01,560 One day I'll do a Colombo podcast maybe. 1299 01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:03,480 Yeah, I think when you've exhausted. 1300 01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:06,640 Yeah. British comedy films and the 1301 01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:08,840 goon show it's. Colombo time. 1302 01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:10,680 Colombo time. But would you believe, and I'm 1303 01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:14,240 not joking, there's at least 6 Columbia podcasts out there of 1304 01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:15,920 some shape or form. I know. 1305 01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:17,560 I can't believe that, actually. Yeah, yes. 1306 01:17:19,480 --> 01:17:24,200 So the the final scene with the we mentioned the the 1307 01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:27,800 synchronizing watcher scene, which was very funny and and 1308 01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,720 improvised. And Hercule has to kill the 1309 01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:33,240 lights at A at a pre agreed time. 1310 01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:36,640 I think 8:00 isn't it? While Clouseau's in with all the 1311 01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:39,520 suspects because he wants, I'm not quite sure what is the 1312 01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:40,840 reason he wants to kill the lights. 1313 01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:44,640 I can't remember what the. I don't know if that's ever 1314 01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:46,720 given. Yeah, this is this is a thought 1315 01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:50,600 I had because it eventually the lights do. 1316 01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,640 Yeah. So it's it's unless he's just 1317 01:17:52,640 --> 01:17:55,920 trying to do the the actual, you know, the the cliched. 1318 01:17:57,440 --> 01:18:00,480 He just thinks that what that's what you do when you have when 1319 01:18:00,480 --> 01:18:03,720 you do a Cruden it Agatha Christie style, all in the 1320 01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:07,120 drawing room reveal that you kill the lights at some point, 1321 01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:08,480 but I don't think it's ever revealed. 1322 01:18:08,480 --> 01:18:11,800 And and when he eventually does kill the lights, that gag goes 1323 01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:13,920 nowhere, so I don't know if something was edited out. 1324 01:18:14,840 --> 01:18:16,280 Well, they just all rush out and they. 1325 01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:20,400 Do they just rush outside and go into the car so it doesn't lead 1326 01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:23,280 anywhere that that gag? It might just be there for for 1327 01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:27,480 the the whole synchronizing watches bit. 1328 01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:38,600 In seven seconds it will be precisely 243 2:43. 1329 01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:41,720 Your watch must have stopped at 7:46. 1330 01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:44,840 Yes, yes, 746. Yes. 1331 01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:47,400 No, no, no, no. Now it's nearly 747 I. 1332 01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:51,080 Think it's all right 747? Are we synchronizing on 747? 1333 01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:54,080 That's what you said. No, I said. 1334 01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:58,360 It was nearly at now 10 seconds to 747. 1335 01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,440 I got 10 seconds after 7:40. You have to put your watch back. 1336 01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:07,880 It's all right, all right. 5 seconds yes 443. 1337 01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:16,560 Two one now. Strange the second hand is not 1338 01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:20,680 moving sticking. It's moving now. 1339 01:19:21,320 --> 01:19:23,560 What? Yes, yes it is. 1340 01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:26,400 Yes, I know that. I can see that it's moving now. 1341 01:19:26,440 --> 01:19:31,160 I now have 747 and 23 seconds. All right, let's synchronize on 1342 01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:41,440 747 and a half 5432 one. No, no. 1343 01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:44,160 Watcher stopped. You know. 1344 01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:47,800 What? Just stop coming here. 1345 01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:50,960 I picked up something this time round, which is the first time I 1346 01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:55,360 and I might I might have misinterpreted this bit, right? 1347 01:19:56,000 --> 01:20:00,560 I probably have. So the whole synchronizing watch 1348 01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:03,560 is seen at the beginning before Clusor goes into the Chateau. 1349 01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:07,840 At one point his watch stops and then it starts again and then. 1350 01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:11,400 I think Hercules watch stops as well. 1351 01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:16,200 So Clueso has to give Hercules his watch and Hercules goes to 1352 01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:21,080 the wherever the mains are in the Chateau ready to switch off 1353 01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:25,080 the electricity. And Clueso is in the drawing 1354 01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:28,400 room with all the suspects. And at one point the phone rings 1355 01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:32,040 and it's Hercule phoning from the basement or whatever. 1356 01:20:32,480 --> 01:20:37,160 And he says to Clueso, what time is it now? 1357 01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:39,840 For start, I'd love sellers to have ad libbed. 1358 01:20:40,440 --> 01:20:42,240 I have it written down on a piece of papers. 1359 01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:44,960 That would have been too much, wouldn't it? 1360 01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:49,680 But he says, what time is it? And Cluso says, what? 1361 01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:52,120 And he says, your watch has stopped, right? 1362 01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:59,360 And then Cluso sort of panics a little bit and just says count. 1363 01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:03,520 And then Hercules says what? He says count. 1364 01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:10,320 And Hercules says, oh, count yes, now is that. 1365 01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:13,280 I can't wonder myself. Is that meant to be? 1366 01:21:13,480 --> 01:21:15,800 You're meant to think that he's Miss Miss Heard what he said to 1367 01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:17,120 him. I think it might. 1368 01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:18,400 Be. I'm assuming that's what it's 1369 01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:19,680 meant to be. I don't know, it might not. 1370 01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:22,520 Kind of Richard Herring mode. I said count. 1371 01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:27,960 No, I did wonder that, Yeah. I wonder if that was a 1372 01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:30,720 particularly naughty improvisation. 1373 01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:37,560 Also the the the policeman downstairs at the big lever to 1374 01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:42,360 turn the power off with a stopwatch or a watch. 1375 01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:45,480 That's very Columbo. Yes. 1376 01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:48,360 That's almost that's almost identical to a scene in the the 1377 01:21:48,480 --> 01:21:50,480 The Twins episode with Martin Landau. 1378 01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:55,440 Oh yes, where where the the TV comes back? 1379 01:21:55,440 --> 01:21:57,400 The very angry lady with the television, yes. 1380 01:21:57,400 --> 01:21:58,960 Missus Peck, whatever her name is. 1381 01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:01,440 Yes, and television comes back on purple. 1382 01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:04,840 Purple. That's right, people who don't 1383 01:22:05,240 --> 01:22:07,120 know what or haven't watched Colombo will wonder what the 1384 01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:08,280 hell we're talking about. But. 1385 01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:10,960 It's incentive to go and watch Colombo. 1386 01:22:11,240 --> 01:22:13,760 Yes. But getting back to this, this 1387 01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:17,320 kind of the denouement of Shot the Dark, the greatest, I think 1388 01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:19,920 the greatest 4th wall breaking in comedy history. 1389 01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:25,000 Yeah. And it only happens once he he 1390 01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:26,840 makes the most of, makes the most of it. 1391 01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:31,320 And I'd love to know who came up with that, who decided on that. 1392 01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:37,520 It's just, it's so everyone's so Clouseau's lost control of the 1393 01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:39,760 room. Literally everyone's squabbling 1394 01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:43,640 with each other and yes, like a mini brawl. 1395 01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:47,600 And, and Clouseau keeps trying to sort of interject and, and 1396 01:22:47,960 --> 01:22:51,040 put himself in the middle of all this and he keeps being pushed 1397 01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:53,720 away and pushed out of the out of the way. 1398 01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:57,480 And at one point he just turns and stares straight down the 1399 01:22:57,480 --> 01:23:00,480 barrel of the camera with this really cross expression on his 1400 01:23:00,480 --> 01:23:04,160 face. And it's absolutely brilliant. 1401 01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:06,920 And it would probably if, if overused, it would be too much. 1402 01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:09,160 But just the. Once it's just the once that the 1403 01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:12,240 climax of the film, it's this despairing look. 1404 01:23:12,480 --> 01:23:14,200 It's. Like guys? 1405 01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:19,320 See what I've got to work with. You see what I'm up against? 1406 01:23:22,480 --> 01:23:25,640 And, and he gets, and at the end, right at the end, you know, 1407 01:23:25,640 --> 01:23:29,200 there's the explosion and Dreyfus has killed all these 1408 01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:32,720 people. And and yet Dreyfus doesn't go 1409 01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:35,160 to the guillotine because he turns up 11. 1410 01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:36,160 Years. That's strange, isn't it? 1411 01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:40,400 Yes, he's, I think Dreyfus kills 10 people in 10 people. 1412 01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:43,400 Yep. And it's still in his job, his 1413 01:23:44,440 --> 01:23:49,600 next film. But right it is the out and out 1414 01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:52,440 villain of this film. He is and then he becomes a 1415 01:23:52,440 --> 01:23:56,800 cartoon villain in Strikes Again when he wants to take over the 1416 01:23:56,800 --> 01:24:00,080 world. But right at the end, Clouseau 1417 01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:02,240 has got the girl, he's Maria Gambrelli. 1418 01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:05,480 They they, they recognize their love for each other and they 1419 01:24:05,480 --> 01:24:08,280 embrace. And then Cato ruins the moment 1420 01:24:08,280 --> 01:24:11,520 by attacking them and they all fall in the fountain and and the 1421 01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:15,480 credits roll and I think it's a lovely neat little tying up of 1422 01:24:15,480 --> 01:24:18,200 of everything. Yeah, and I think there's it 1423 01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:20,760 proves there's nothing wrong. It doesn't take away from the 1424 01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:26,160 character to allow the comedy wrapful character to get the 1425 01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:28,120 girl at the end. Yeah. 1426 01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:32,400 And it's like I really like I mentioned earlier Friday night 1427 01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:34,400 dinner. I think it's an excellently 1428 01:24:34,400 --> 01:24:37,400 written and acted very classy sitcom. 1429 01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:43,040 But I think in the final series it it gets very broad. 1430 01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,920 And one bit that particularly won't say annoyed me, but 1431 01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:50,280 frustrated me is there's a bit where I don't know if you know 1432 01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:53,560 the the sitcom, but Mark Heaps character, Jim, the strange next 1433 01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:57,920 door neighbour who starts off just being a bit strange, but by 1434 01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:02,480 the end of it is a a full on Homer Simpson buffoon who 1435 01:25:02,480 --> 01:25:04,200 doesn't exist in any way in the real world. 1436 01:25:04,200 --> 01:25:07,400 But there's an episode where he he has a love interest with 1437 01:25:10,480 --> 01:25:12,760 Sally Phillips. So Sally Phillips is playing a 1438 01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:17,840 European au pair, I think, and they they really hit it off and 1439 01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:24,040 they they you know, they have sparks and he they're just going 1440 01:25:24,040 --> 01:25:29,240 upstairs together at the end. But for some reason they felt it 1441 01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:32,600 was necessary that he wasn't allowed to get the girl. 1442 01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:35,960 And so she's wearing AT shirt with a picture of a wolf on it. 1443 01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:40,320 So he sees the picture of wolf and goes wolf and gets scared 1444 01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:43,400 and runs away. It's like, why? 1445 01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:48,360 Hey, you know, he's he's not that. 1446 01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:51,920 That seems just so that even for Jim, that seems wildly after 1447 01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:55,000 character that he would think the drawing of a wolf on her 1448 01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:58,480 T-shirt was a real wolf. But also, I think it doesn't 1449 01:25:58,480 --> 01:26:00,040 matter. It doesn't ruin the character. 1450 01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:03,480 I think you can allow the character to have a happy ending 1451 01:26:03,480 --> 01:26:05,760 than to get the girl and it it doesn't matter. 1452 01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:08,680 And it's quite nice. And I think we'd actually really 1453 01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:12,240 like it if if Jim did have that moment of happiness. 1454 01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:17,600 And I think this kind of this this shows it that that Clouseau 1455 01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:20,600 is a incompetent buffoon for the most part, even though he's he's 1456 01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:23,680 not as big and as big and incompetent buffoon as he is for 1457 01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:26,200 the other films. But he's he's allowed to get the 1458 01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:29,480 girl at the end and it doesn't detract from him at all. 1459 01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,320 No, not at all. Not at all. 1460 01:26:33,360 --> 01:26:38,280 There was largely positive reviews for the film when it 1461 01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:43,440 came out. The Daily Mail was a bit sniffy. 1462 01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:47,520 Who'd have thunk it? Daily Mail like that? 1463 01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:50,080 The the reviewer, Cecil Wilson said. 1464 01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:53,880 Cecil Wilson is ever a more Daily Mail name than. 1465 01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:58,560 Cecil Wilson, he said if if he meaning clueso, he leaves me 1466 01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:03,200 less limp with laughter than other Sellers creations, it is 1467 01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:05,880 because I would rather not see an actor of this comic stature 1468 01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:08,960 playing feed to so many props and mechanical gags. 1469 01:27:09,760 --> 01:27:12,720 I like the gentle dignity of this Clueso character, but the 1470 01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:16,160 fun depends not so much on what he does as on what things do to 1471 01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:18,120 him. And in a seller's picture, that 1472 01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:19,480 is the wrong way round for me. I. 1473 01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:23,000 Mean each their own I suppose, but I think that's slightly 1474 01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:28,200 misreading it. Yeah, the People newspaper, 31st 1475 01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:33,400 of January 1965. Just a little tiny little piece 1476 01:27:33,400 --> 01:27:36,680 saying one important guest was missing from a party given last 1477 01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:39,480 week after the press showing of A Shot in the Dark. 1478 01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:43,320 It was the star of the film, Peter Sellers, when he did not 1479 01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:46,520 turn up for the party at the Hilton Hotel and Park Lane. 1480 01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:49,600 I was told he was along the road at the Dorchester biting his 1481 01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:55,120 nails, probably squaring Britt Eckland. 1482 01:27:55,120 --> 01:27:58,480 'S got to have a hobby. But yeah, so I'm writing him a 1483 01:27:58,480 --> 01:28:00,280 little note to set his mind at rest. 1484 01:28:00,960 --> 01:28:02,800 Dear Peter, what are you worrying about? 1485 01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:05,440 A Shot in the Dark is one of the funniest films you've made. 1486 01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:08,040 The audience gurgled with delight all the time. 1487 01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:12,200 That's nice. They didn't laugh, but they 1488 01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:13,840 gurgled. They gurgled. 1489 01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:23,440 Commissioner Dreyfus? Yes, my darling. 1490 01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:27,120 I was just about to call you. I'm on my way. 1491 01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:33,160 I've got the cheese and the Beaujolais, my love. 1492 01:28:33,480 --> 01:28:37,760 Kiss the children for me. Hold on. 1493 01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:41,080 Yeah. Your wife is on the other line. 1494 01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:46,720 Tell her I'm out of town. The character of Dreyfus is is 1495 01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:50,960 quite interesting that he is such such an unsympathetic 1496 01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:52,720 character. Like the first thing we ever see 1497 01:28:52,720 --> 01:28:55,160 of him is a gag about him philandering. 1498 01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:58,560 Yes. He's talking on the phone to to 1499 01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:01,200 somebody and that's great. We assume it's his wife. 1500 01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:04,800 And then his assistant comes, Andre comes in and says, well, 1501 01:29:04,800 --> 01:29:08,400 your wife's on the line. And also he doesn't care what he 1502 01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:09,480 hears. There's been a murder at the 1503 01:29:09,480 --> 01:29:14,480 Chateau and he says so. So he's he's, he's a very, he's 1504 01:29:14,480 --> 01:29:18,160 a very unpleasant person other than murdering 10 people. 1505 01:29:18,440 --> 01:29:22,040 But also he reminds he's quite a 1964 character because he 1506 01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:25,160 reminded me a lot also of a couple of characters from that 1507 01:29:25,160 --> 01:29:27,400 other 1964 film, Hard Day's Night. 1508 01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:32,080 He's very like Victor Spinetti's TV producer. 1509 01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:36,000 That someone is someone incompetent or meddling. 1510 01:29:36,480 --> 01:29:39,080 In that case, Paul's grandfather. 1511 01:29:39,440 --> 01:29:42,000 But I've seen your grandfather. He lives in your house. 1512 01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:46,760 He he's driving into that kind of stammering. 1513 01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:48,240 Everyone's entitled to two, aren't they? 1514 01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:54,160 He's he, he's in a similar way he reduces him to that kind of 1515 01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:57,440 stammering, insanely giggling wreck. 1516 01:29:58,440 --> 01:30:01,720 But also Norm in that the man, the manager, Norm played by 1517 01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:05,560 Norman Rossington, who who is inexplicably driven to despair 1518 01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:08,280 by John Lennon, who's actually quite well behaved nowadays 1519 01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:09,760 night. I've never quite really 1520 01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:13,840 understood why Norm has such a beef with John, who's just 1521 01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:19,840 really just trundles about being mercurial and mischievous. 1522 01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:23,400 But it's a similar sort of thing that this that they're all 1523 01:30:23,400 --> 01:30:26,440 they're they're driven a bit bonkers because I think also in 1524 01:30:26,440 --> 01:30:30,480 this, this so isn't that bad. He is in the other films 1525 01:30:30,480 --> 01:30:32,200 possibly, but he's not in this film. 1526 01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:34,520 He's not. He's not bad enough to drive 1527 01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:38,640 someone that crazy. No, absolutely not. 1528 01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:40,960 The other, the other thought I had is just about the fact that 1529 01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:47,160 it is a 1964 film and I think it's sitting right in that kind 1530 01:30:47,160 --> 01:30:52,440 of divide, sort of slight no man's land between old fashioned 1531 01:30:52,440 --> 01:30:57,960 films from the 50s and early 60s and groovy films from probably 1532 01:30:57,960 --> 01:31:01,600 1965 onwards. In the same way that Hard Day's 1533 01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:08,240 Night is, because it's in the the nudist colony scene, there 1534 01:31:08,240 --> 01:31:10,960 is a band playing and it's a jazz band comprised of 1535 01:31:10,960 --> 01:31:13,280 middle-aged men. And I think if the film was shot 1536 01:31:13,280 --> 01:31:17,240 a year later, it would be a hot band consisting of young men 1537 01:31:17,480 --> 01:31:21,240 playing, kind of. It would be and. 1538 01:31:21,240 --> 01:31:25,640 Groovy library music. That band, that band were picked 1539 01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:27,000 up from Ronnie Scott's by the way. 1540 01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:31,200 Blake Edwards saw them playing at Ronnie Scott's, paid them £12 1541 01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:37,480 each to film that. Take your clothes off and blow a 1542 01:31:37,640 --> 01:31:42,080 horn or whatever. But even like A Hard Day's 1543 01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:46,960 Night, even though that is a a film about young men in a pop 1544 01:31:46,960 --> 01:31:49,960 band, it's still a relatively sober film. 1545 01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:52,840 It isn't when you compare it to Help, which is very much a 1546 01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:55,440 groovy film. Yeah, yeah, it's true. 1547 01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:58,520 Yeah, it's true. It's, it's quite, it has it. 1548 01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:02,120 Most of the characters are quite middle-aged and everyone's 1549 01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:05,320 wearing suits and has a nice neat haircut. 1550 01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:10,200 And it's much more of the early 60s comedy. 1551 01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:15,280 No, not quite comedy of manners, but quite low key comedy of kind 1552 01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:17,680 of like middle-aged men reacting to things. 1553 01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:21,400 Yeah. Whereas you go into like 1965 1554 01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:25,360 and and help when it's much broader and you have the silly 1555 01:32:25,360 --> 01:32:28,160 stroke offensive accents and much more running around and 1556 01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:29,840 larking and. And young people. 1557 01:32:30,080 --> 01:32:34,800 Yeah, much more. Yeah, much younger people and of 1558 01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:37,320 course bright colour as well. But this is but this, this film 1559 01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:39,640 we've just watched is a very vividly, beautifully colour. 1560 01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:42,600 So it's it's not so much that and they're on beaches and 1561 01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:44,640 they're skiing and there's larking in it, but it is just 1562 01:32:44,640 --> 01:32:49,400 much it's much groovier. So I think this is this 64 is is 1563 01:32:49,400 --> 01:32:54,360 the tail end of of pre groovy, which I like. 1564 01:32:54,720 --> 01:32:58,040 I like it. It's quite a it's quite cozy. 1565 01:32:58,040 --> 01:33:00,760 It's it's nice, like A Hard Day's Night. 1566 01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:03,960 You can have a little holiday in 1964 when you watch this. 1567 01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:08,200 Yes, All right. So I think we've, I think we've 1568 01:33:08,400 --> 01:33:10,280 gone through that fairly comprehensively. 1569 01:33:10,640 --> 01:33:12,440 Brilliant film. If if you haven't seen Shot in 1570 01:33:12,440 --> 01:33:16,680 the Dark, please seek it out. I think I sent you a YouTube 1571 01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:21,640 link for it, Adam, and I think it occurred to me the other day. 1572 01:33:21,640 --> 01:33:24,480 I'm sure it's available on Amazon Prime. 1573 01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:27,680 It is on Amazon prime. I actually got the DVD in the 1574 01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:30,440 end because I wanted to see it like in nice quality and I'm 1575 01:33:30,440 --> 01:33:33,120 glad I did because particularly the Reds, the Reds and are 1576 01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:35,440 beautiful yes. So it's definitely worth seeing 1577 01:33:35,440 --> 01:33:39,640 in in good quality because because that that mid 60s film 1578 01:33:39,640 --> 01:33:42,160 stock is gorgeous. It it really is. 1579 01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:44,840 OK. So Adam, thank you so much as 1580 01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:45,960 always. Thank you. 1581 01:33:46,440 --> 01:33:49,560 Now the the novel, do you want to do you want to give the a 1582 01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:53,280 plug for the novel? The title is lost in the garden. 1583 01:33:53,280 --> 01:33:56,160 That's Lost in the Garden by Adam S Leslie. 1584 01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:58,640 It's has a very distinctive pink and white cover. 1585 01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:02,920 And yes, if you'd like a bit of folkology, folk horror and 1586 01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:07,960 ontology and shortwave radio and childhood memories of ice cream 1587 01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:13,520 and that sort of thing, public information films and distant 1588 01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:18,480 villages and mysteries about missing people, then give it a 1589 01:34:18,480 --> 01:34:20,360 go. Absolutely can. 1590 01:34:20,480 --> 01:34:23,360 Can only be a matter of time before Netflix pick up the 1591 01:34:23,360 --> 01:34:25,160 option. Well, that would be lovely. 1592 01:34:25,160 --> 01:34:29,320 Come on Netflix, do your bit, do your thing, do do your best. 1593 01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:33,160 Adam, thank you so much and catch up with you soon. 1594 01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:34,880 Have a good one, speak to you soon. 1595 01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:35,880 See you soon. Bye bye. 1596 01:34:35,960 --> 01:35:06,720 Cheerio Bye. None.