Tonight’s offering is a classic play by JB Priestley. An Inspector Calls concerns a family who receive a visit one evening whilst at dinner from a man claiming to be a police inspector. He questions the family about a woman who has committed suicide and says that members of the family are named in a diary found with the dead girl.
The film then shows the family being shown a picture of the dead girl by the Inspector and one of them admits that the girl was one of he employed the girl at his mill but sacked her for becoming in involved in a strike. As time goes by and the family’s involvement with the girl becomes more and more apparent, the evening descends into angry recrimniations.
I won’t give too much away about this movie as it’s worth seeing fresh but what I will say is that it is one of the classics of the mid 20th century English stage and encompasses issues of class, of rights and the tail end of Victorian morality.
I was delighted to find this old BBC version of the play online and I hope that you enjoy it too.
