Crime ·Drama ·Mystery · United Kingdom · 1954 · 1h 20m

An Inspector Calls

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Director
Guy Hamilton
Cast
Alastair Sim as Inspector Poole Olga Lindo as Mrs. Sybil Birling Arthur Young as Mr. Arthur Birling Brian Worth as Gerald Croft Eileen Moore as Sheila Birling Bryan Forbes as Eric Birling
Crew
Edward Scaife — Director of Photography Alan Osbiston — Editor Francis Chagrin — Original Music Composer Desmond Davis — Screenplay J. B. Priestley — Writer A.D. Peters — Producer
Tagline

Is he real... or the creature of conscience?

Synopsis

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?

Mood & Themes
prostitutecorruptiondepartment storefiancébased on play or musicalscandalalcoholismengagementfilm noirblack and whiteclass differencessuper power
Key Collaborators
Guy Hamilton Director Edward Scaife Director of Photography Alan Osbiston Editor Francis Chagrin Original Music Composer Desmond Davis Screenplay J. B. Priestley Writer A.D. Peters Producer
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