Just Off Broadway (1942)

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.