An Inspector Calls

1954 · 80 min · EN · 7.2 (113 votes)

Dir. Guy Hamilton · Starring Alastair Sim, Olga Lindo, Arthur Young, Brian Worth, Eileen Moore, Bryan Forbes · Music Francis Chagrin

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

CrimeDramaMystery

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?

VIBE

A stifling, drawing-room mystery where polite society unravels under intense scrutiny. Each revelation feels like a tightening noose, exposing hidden sins and societal rot. The atmosphere is thick with unspoken truths and mounting dread.

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