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Dear Inspector poster
B
Strong
MASTER SCORE 66.7 / 100
1977·Action / Comedy / Crime·1h 45m

DEAR INSPECTOR

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.

Above the Line
Philippe de Broca·DirectorJean-Paul Rouland·WriterMichel Audiard·WriterGeorges Delerue·Original Music ComposerFrançoise Javet·Editor
Cast
Annie Girardot·Lise TanquerellePhilippe Noiret·Antoine LemercierCatherine Alric·Christine VallierHubert Deschamps·CharmillePaulette Dubost·MotherRoger Dumas·Marcel Guérin, l'inspecteurRaymond Gérôme·Head of Criminal DivisionGuy Marchand·BerettiSimone Renant·SuzanneGeorges Wilson·Alexandre Mignonac
Full Crew
(16 credits)
Directing· 1
Philippe de Broca·Director
Writing· 5
Jean-Paul Rouland·WriterMichel Audiard·WriterPhilippe de Broca·AdaptationClaude Olivier·NovelJean-Paul Rouland·Novel
Editing· 1
Françoise Javet·Editor
Sound & Music· 2
Georges Delerue·Original Music ComposerBernard Bats·Sound
Art & Design· 2
François de Lamothe·Art DirectionCatherine Leterrier·Costume Design
Production· 4
Michel Audiard·ProducerGeorges Dancigers·ProducerAlexandre Mnouchkine·ProducerRobert Amon·Producer
Other Departments· 1
Jean-Paul Schwartz·Cinematography
By the Numbers
66.7
OF 100
Master Score
6.7
OF 10
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