Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film opens as the first of a series of corrupt judges is murdered in a small city. More judges are murdered in nearby towns and Inspector Rogas, a shrewd and tough police detective (played by Lino Ventura) is called in on the case to try to put together the pieces of the puzzle. At first Rogas suspects a wrongly convicted pharmacist seeking revenge on his accusers. A boyhood friend of Rogas who is now a writer for a Communist newspaper suggests that conspiratorial political machinations might be involved in the murders, but Rogas dismisses the idea...
...pharmacist in Woodbridge, Va., a hamlet 25 miles south of Washington, D.C., to fill a prescription. The prescription called for 15 tablets of Quaalude, a potent sedative that is sometimes prescribed for insomnia and frequently abused because of its mythical properties as an aphrodisiac. By chance, a state pharmacy inspector, Kathleen Watt, was in the store and decided to verify Long's prescription. When she tried to call the doctor who had written it and found that the doctor's phone had been disconnected. Watt summoned police. The officers learned that the patient's name...
...More like a short story, Watson. And hardly new. A Mr. Ellery Queen will have already written A Study in Terror in 1966, postulating that Jack was an aristocrat named the Duke of Shires. Other literature will theorize that the killer was a Scotland Yard inspector or a member of the royal family...
Orson Welles--1001 Mass Ave--I, Dear Inspector, 4, 5:50, 7:50, 9:45; Orson Welles II--Madame Rosa, 4, 6, 8, 9:55. Orson Welles III--Outrageous, 5:50, 7:45, 9:35. Friday-Saturday midnight shows--Female Trouble, The Harder They Come and Night of the Living Dead...
...Dear Inspector--A delightful, if not too deep, French film about a female detective, a big-ass murder case, and an incipient love affair. Philippe de Broca's first film in a long while is rather pleasing, even if the mystery suffers some for the sake of the romantic comedy. Philippe Noiret and Annie Girardot make a good pair. A little thin...