ニューヨークの組織にバカにされたフランス暗黒街のボスは、国民的英雄で世界中のスパイを返り討ちにしたクルーゾーを殺し、その力を誇示しようとする。が、クルーゾーと女装泥棒を間違えて暗殺。政府もそれを信じて国葬を発表してしまう。家へ帰ったクルーゾーは、助手のケイトーが家を東洋風の娼館に改造しているのを知りあきれ返るが、偶然出会ったドーヴィエの元秘書で愛人のシモーヌから、香港で大量の麻薬取引が行われることを知りケイトーを連れて香港へ飛ぶ。ニューヨークから来たイタリア人マフィアに変装したクルーゾーは秘密の取引現場潜入に成功する……。
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製作費: $12,000,000 (18億円)
興行収入: $49,579,269 (74億円)
推定収支: $37,579,269 (56億円)
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監督: Blake Edwards
脚本: Frank Waldman / Ron Clark / Blake Edwards
音楽: Henry Mancini
制作: Blake Edwards / Tony Adams
撮影監督: Ernest Day
制作会社: United Artists / Jewel Productions / Sellers-Edwards productions / Pimlico Films
I suppose the writing was on the wall for this Sellers/Edwards production right from the start with the rearranged Henri Mancini theme tune. Thereafter, we introduce "Clouseau" (Peter Sellers) to the (more lucrative?) American market as he is targeted by the Paris branch of the New York mob. Philippe Douvier (Robbert Webber) leads the local team and is under pressure to demonstrate that he still has what it takes. They decide some proof is needed, and what better way than to beump-eouf France's most acclaimed detective. This result might also give the long-suffering "Dreyfus" (Herbert Lom) a chance to reclaim his job, sanity and the limelight. Of course, nothing goes to plan and soon the bumbling policeman is causing havoc across the city trying to find out who wanted him pushing up the daisies. It's Lom who steals the scenes for me - his sessions with his psychiatrist (Ferdy Mayne) and his increasingly nervous twitches and paranoid behaviour when even the name of his nemesis is mentioned is really all that remains that's funny now. Sellers does just enough, but the plot is thin, the writing has lost much of it's originality and it struggles to find things worthy of the usual standard of parody as even "Cato" becomes embroiled in something akin to "Mister Wong". They ought to stop now.
