Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play-and the role-could hardly be more distant from Scofield's last two productions, Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Gogol's The Government Inspector. Staircase is an offbeat black comedy about a homosexual "marriage"; Scofield plays a middle-aged barber; his partner is Patrick Magee, who played Sade in the London and Broadway companies of Marat /Sade...
...current Police Chief, the top U.S. police magazine, Philadelphia's Chief Inspector Harry G. Fox proudly limns the C.D. man as an uncowed, unbiased "ethical example," who "refuses to act as judge or jury no matter the provocation." C.D. work may have little effect on the number of demonstrations taking place, says Fox. But it will have a "major effect" on overall police efficiency and "public reaction to the use of police powers...
...pudgy, middle-aged chap (Rudolf Hrušinski) who works as an inspector for a chain of grocery stores and looks like a small grey pig wearing spectacles. Humiliated by his appearance, he assumes a mask of in difference that puts off the people he works with and drives his wife (Ann Todd) to drink. Inevitably, the morbid love-hate of women that is hidden in the inspector's heart bursts out in an ambiguous compulsion to punish and to prowl...
...discovers that 79 bottles of expensive spirits have somehow been transfomed into 79 bottles of weak tea. When he questions the staff, a pretty young clerk (Anne Heywood) flies into hysterics and runs out of the shop. Excited by his sudden power to dominate what he desires, the inspector without further investigation decides that the girl is guilty and calls in the police. That night she kills herself. Next day the inspector discovers that she had only been protecting the real culprit: the handsome young manager of the store...
...eyes, and for one terrible instant he sees that he looks like a pig because he is a pig. For one terrible instant he stands ready to pay for the girl's life by taking his own. Next day, still looking like a small grey pig, the inspector is back on the job, back on the prowl. Character is fate...