Is he real... or the creature of conscience?
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?
- 7.1
- 1954
- Released
- 1h 20m
Alastair Sim
Inspector Poole
Olga Lindo
Mrs. Sybil Birling
Arthur Young
Mr. Arthur Birling
Brian Worth
Gerald Croft
Eileen Moore
Sheila Birling
Jane Wenham
Eva Smith
George Woodbridge
Fish & Chip Shop Owner - Stanley
Barbara Everest
Committee Member - Mrs. Lefson
Charles Saynor
Police Officer - Arnold RansomOlwen Brookes
Miss Francis - Hat Saleswoman
John Welsh
Shop Walker - Mr. TimmonJenny Jones
Small Girl
Norman Bird
Jones-Collins - Foreman
George Cole
Tram ConductorRenee Cunliffe
Brenda Duncan
Mabel Etherington
Victor Harrington
George Hirste
Pat Neal
Paul Phillips
Arthur Sandifer
Catherine Willmer
Released
en
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- #corruption
- #department store
- #fiancé
- #based on play or musical
- #scandal
- #alcoholism
- #engagement
- #film noir
- #black and white
- #class differences
- #super power
- #extramarital affair
Reviews
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 lonel