The Jazz Singer

A 1953 remake starred Danny Thomas and Peggy Lee, and a 1980 remake starred Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz and Laurence Olivier. They decide to pin the blame on the unsuspecting maid, whom Clouseau becomes infatuated with, and forces the perpetrators to attempt to disappear, and due to a mistake, they do - permanently. The Jazz Singer has been remade twice. Due to a complex network of affairs between the various people in the house, they begin murdering people, eventually raising the count to four. The movie is one of those selected for preservation by the American National Film Registry as culturally significant. Ballon is the millionaire at whose house the initial murder takes place. The song was enough, however, to create a sensation among moviegoing audiences of the day and prompt an immediate revolution in the Hollywood movie industry. Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders).

The rest of the film's soundtrack is instrumental musical accompaniment, with most of the dialogue presented through the standard caption cards prevalent in silent movies of the era. Clouseau, suspecting murderers were trying to kill him, ordered a "training program" with Cato, telling him to attack "wherever and whenever I least expect it." This becomes a running gag throughout the films, as Cato chooses to attack his boss at the worst possible times. Despite becoming famous for introducing sound, the movie contains only a few minutes' worth of actual singing and dialogue. Jolson sings the famous standard "Mammy" twice during the film, with a couple of lines of dialogue. Cato is Clouseau's servant, trained in the martial arts. Up-and-coming cast member:. Cato (Burt Kwouk). The movie was the first of a series of "talkies" starring Jolson; other films in the series included The Singing Fool (1928), Say It With Songs (1929), and Mammy (1930). Sometimes he goes back to his old job, but once he went completely nuts, attempting to take over the world just to kill Clouseau.

The film opened the door to the evolution of sound film and signaled the end of the era of the silent film. When he was asked to read the Inspector's eulogy (written by someone who actually liked him), he couldn't keep himself from laughing. The movie opened on October 6, 1927 and was a sensational box-office hit, proving to Hollywood (and to the world) that "talkies" were profitable. Dreyfus is consigned to an asylum several times. When Warner Brothers refused to meet Jessel's salary demands, Jessel turned the part down and Warner Brothers chose Jolson for the role. He slowly goes mad throughout the film, leading to the end, where he repeatedly attempts to kill him. The stage production of the show had been a hit on Broadway in 1925 and a second production in 1927 with George Jessel in the lead role. Dreyfus is Clouseau's boss, first seen in A Shot in the Dark.

Released by Warner Bros., it was directed by Alan Crosland and starred Al Jolson, who performed two songs in blackface. Commissioner Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom). movie notable for being the first 'talking motion picture' to be widely commercially distributed. Clouseau constantly causes his bosses pain, and in one case, drives one particular superior insane several times throughout the course of the films. The Jazz Singer is a 1927 U.S. Clouseau is the bumbling detective of the Pink Panther films, with a stereotypical French accent and an incredibly clumsy manner. Jack Robin (Al Jolson): "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet! Wait a minute, I tell ya! You ain't heard nothin'! You wanna hear 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie'? All right, hold on, hold on...". Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers).

Cohn. As the Inspector continues to screw up, he slowly drives his boss mad. Eventually, Dreyfus starts gunning for him, leading to an (literally) explosive finale. Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - Alfred A. Clouseau always manages to be at the wrong place at the right time, including a scene in a nudist colony. Myrna Loy  : Chorus girl. As the real culprits attempt to keep everything away from Clouseau's boss Commissioner Dreyfus, they must commit even more murders to cover up. Richard Tucker  : Harry Lee. As all evidence points to a beautiful maid, a love-struck Clouseau stubbornly refuses to admit that she is guilty.

Otto Lederer  : Moisha Yudelson. Inspector Clouseau is called to the country home of a Paris plutocrat to solve a murder mystery. Eugenie Besserer  : Sara Rabinowitz. The film was released only a few months after the first Clouseau film, The Pink Panther. Warner Oland  : Cantor Rabinowitz. As Blake Edwards and future The Exorcist creator William Peter Blatty began work on the script, they decided to insert the character of Clouseau into the proceedings. May McAvoy  : Mary Dale. The film was not originally written to include Clouseau, but rather to be an adaptation of a stage play by Harry Kurnitz, which in turn was based upon the play L'Idiot by Marcel Achard.

Al Jolson  : Jakie Rabinowitz (Jack Robin). Elke Sommer plays the attractive Maria Gambrelli. The film also introduces Herbert Lom as his boss, Commissioner Dreyfus, and Burt Kwouk as his long-suffering servant, Cato, who would both become series regulars. Clouseau's bumbling personality is unchanged, but it was only in this film that Sellers began to give him the idiosyncratically exaggerated French accent that was to become a hallmark of the character. Peter Sellers is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Surete.

A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 film directed by Blake Edwards and is the second installment in the Pink Panther series.