An Inspector Calls (1954)

03/16/1954Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance1h 20m
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Is he real... or the creature of conscience?

Overview

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?

Top Billed Cast

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    Alastair Sim

    Inspector Poole

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    Olga Lindo

    Mrs. Sybil Birling

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    Arthur Young

    Mr. Arthur Birling

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    Brian Worth

    Gerald Croft

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    Eileen Moore

    Sheila Birling

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    Bryan Forbes

    Eric Birling

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    Jane Wenham

    Eva Smith

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    George Woodbridge

    Fish & Chip Shop Owner - Stanley

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    Barbara Everest

    Committee Member - Mrs. Lefson

Alastair Sim is super as the man who calls upon the well-to-do "Birling" family with the very sad news that a young girl has been found dead. What's that to do with them, asks "Mr. Birling" (Arthur Young)? Well over the next eighty minutes this man lays before them a cleverly constructed series of theories that could easily suggest that any or all of them might be responsible for the sad and lonely predicament the young woman found herself in at the end of her life. Spurned affections and accusations of neglect, cruelty - psychologically rather than physical, and thoughtlessness could readily ...