Synopsis
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
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Cast
- Alan ArkinInsp. Jacques Clouseau
- Frank FinlaySupt. Weaver
- Delia BoccardoLt. Lisa Morrel
- Patrick CargillCommissioner Sir Charles Braithwaite
- Beryl ReidMrs Weaver
- Clive FrancisClyde Hargreaves
- Richard PearsonShockley
- Michael RipperSteven Frey
- Susan EngelCarmichael
- Wallas EatonHoeffler
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
Film is a lively, entertaining and episodic story of bank robbers. Good scripting, better acting and topnotch direction get the most out of the material. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Clouseau is Alan Arkin this time, instead of Peter Sellers, and it's hard to say whether we gain or lose. Arkin flounders a little in the stiff French accent he inherited from Sellers. But in his movements and timing, he's Sellers' equal. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
Talented though he is, Arkin cannot fill Sellers' shoes, especially when hampered by a script which relies on cheap laughs and lots of accidental death, and Yorkin's pedestrian direction. - 20
Time Out
Sorely contrived. - 10
The New York Times
A comedy so uninspired, so relentlessly awful that one occasionally laughs for it—more like a moo or a snort or a gagging noise—just to interrupt it a little or help it out of the room.
