The Dark Hour (1936)

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.

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

In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.

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

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.

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

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

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.

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

Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.