An excellent comedy of English humor, despite the fact that the script is written by an American. Very caustic and atmospheric satire on stylistics, clichés, plot moves and characters of the detective genre. A significant part of the jokes is based on the images of parody detectives, which are very carefully verified. Probably the most comic image was created by Peter Falk, parodying the brilliant, but uncouth American detective and at the same time the image of a cool man in American cinema of the 20s and 30s of the last century. His pronunciation alone is a posh parody. It is better to watch the movie with the original sound. The same is true of the hero Peter Sellers, whose speech includes numerous intentional errors.
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