An Inspector Calls
by J. B. Priestleyliterary work· published 1946
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An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley's 'time'plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war.
Adaptations (8)
An Inspector Calls has been adapted 8 times, across film and television film, from 1954 to 2015.
An Inspector Calls1954 · film · 80 min · dir. Guy Hamilton · IMDb ↗IMDb7.5An 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?
Thana Theke Aschi1965 · film · 103 min · dir. Hiren Nag · IMDb ↗IMDb7.8Sub-Inspector Tinkari Haldar comes to the house of the Industrialist Chandra Madhab Sen to inquire about a Suicide and Mystery starts to Unfold.
Inspektor Gull1979 · film · 136 min · dir. Aleksandr Proshkin · IMDb ↗IMDb7.1Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.
An Inspector Calls1982 · television film · 90 min · IMDb ↗IMDb7.2An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 (in Russia) and 1946 (in the UK). It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. The play's success and reputation has been boosted in recent years by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992. This is a re-edited version of the 1982 BBC TV adaptation, originally serialised in three parts.
Thana Theke Aschi2010 · film · 112 min · dir. Saron Datta · IMDb ↗IMDb7.1A suspect is looked for by an eligible police officer after a women allegedly committed suicide...
An Inspector Calls2015 · film · 86 min · dir. Raymond Pak-Ming Wong, Herman Yau · IMDb ↗IMDb4.9An unexpected inspector drops by a lavish party of a notable family in order to investigate the suicide of a pregnant girl. This breaks the joy and peace of the party which is meant to celebrate a couple's engagement. Everyone claims that they do not know the girl. However, the inspector does find something suspicious there with the help of a diary and a photo. An astonishing truth is gradually revealed: six of the noble family members are closely related to the girl's death.
- An Inspector Calls2015 · television film · 87 min · dir. Aisling Walsh · IMDb ↗IMDb7.6
Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her.
