When are you going to do something about that terrible furniture in your prison? Hmm? Well, we are not savages. This is not the Middle Ages. I mean, you are running a house of correction, not a torture chamber.
11 seconds sound clip from the A Shot in the Dark (1964) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:30:23.622 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Yes, yes, it's really high time that somebody did something about it, don't you think?
- Sure.
- As a matter of fact, I will do something about it this very moment.
- Give me the prison superintendent immediately.
- Prison is bad enough without uncomfortable furniture.
- Yes? Superintendent, this is Inspector Clouseau.
- Well, I suggest you take the matter under serious consideration.
- I mean, if one is to cope with a modern criminal, it is necessary to use modern methods.
- I mean, you can't have a contemporary prison without, uh, contemporary furniture.
- Yes. Well, that's my opinion, anyway.
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Actors: Peter Sellers (Inspector Jacques Clouseau), Herbert Lom (Commissioner Charles Dreyfus), George Sanders (Monsieur Benjamin Ballon), Elke Sommer (Maria Gambrelli)
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