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.
Inspector Clouseau
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- United Kingdom,
- United States
- 1968
- · 96m
Director
Bud Yorkin
Cast
Alan Arkin,
Frank Finlay,
Delia Boccardo,
Patrick Cargill,
Beryl Reid,
Clive Francis
Genre
Comedy,
Crime
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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63
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
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.
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