Unfortunately for the villains, Frank turns out to be a first-class bumbler in the Inspector Clouseau mold.
His first role in the series was as Hercule Lajoy, Inspector Clouseau's stonefaced assistant, in A Shot in the Dark (1964).
Clouseau is an inept and incompetent police detective in the French Sûreté, whose investigations are marked with chaos and destruction he largely causes himself.
After many years of portraying a dark and sinister persona Alice Cooper decided to try something new and donned the persona of a heavy drinking comic PI named "Maurice Escargot" - a fictional character in the same vein as Inspector Clouseau.
The Inspector tries to stop a band of motorcyclists led by "Pig Al" from disturbing the peace.
Originally founded in 1962, it was best known for producing The Pink Panther series of films (which feature Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau), and various DePatie-Freleng animated cartoons, before shutting down in 1982.
Stockinger is portrayed as a clumsy, almost Inspector Clouseau-like character, driving a clapped-out 1973 VW Variant, but single-minded when following up clues.
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In the 1978 film Revenge of the Pink Panther, Chief Inspector Clouseau, disguised as a "salty Swedish seadog," sings a mangled version of the song.