L'Idiote (The Idiot) is a comic mystery play by Marcel Achard. It is best known in the United States as A Shot in the Dark and was adapted into a film under that title. The English adaptation by Harry Kurnitz had a 1961-1962 Broadway run, directed by Harold Clurman. Its cast included Julie Harris, Walter Matthau, and William Shatner. When adapted to film in 1964, it was heavily reworked in order to make the bumbling police inspector be the character of Inspector Clouseau, who had earlier appeared in the film The Pink Panther.