Though jurors would hear none of these allegations, which spoke volumes about the character of this case, there was still the problem, for the prosecutors, of the spectacular claims Mr. Grover made in court charges central to the case.
The original Clouseau is not, in any case, a character but a collection of brilliant routines by the late English genius, and Steve Martin bravely does those numbers with as great a comic nimbleness as could be wished.