Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from de Broca in the past few years; the man who brought us King of Hearts and, once upon a time, That Man from Rio, seemed to have disappeared. Well, de Broca fans can rest assured that their man is alive and fairly well, as his latest film, Dear Inspector, demonstrates...
...Dear Inspector (formerly titled Dear Detective, but the name was changed when it became apparent that it would be released in America at about the same time as The Cheap Detective typifies in many ways the elements of style and wit that have made de Broca a perennial favorite in more places than just Cambridge. It is the rather silly, but nonetheless pleasant, story of a high-ranking Parisian police inspector who just happens to be a woman. Funny thing, that--it appears the protagonist of almost every new film nowadays has to be female. While there is surely nothing...
...Dear Inspector revolves around two plot strands, which interweave effectively until the end of the film. The first involves a big mystery case that is assigned, of course, to Lise. Someone, it seems, has fallen into the rather distasteful practice of murdering members of the National Assembly in crowded places--and with an awl, no less. Lise and her squadron of affectionate detectives must find and stop this madman while Paris reverberates with the crimes...
...second plot, the one that dominates the film, concerns the inspector's blossoming romance with one Antoine Lemercier, played by Philippe Noiret. M. Lemercier teaches classical Greek literature at the Sorbonne, and after a (literal) chance run-in on the streets, he a Lise discover that they were college buddies who even dated a few times, 20-plus years earlier. He is instantly attracted to Lise, and begins a rather humorous pursuit that is complicated by her unwillingness to tell him that she is a detective working on the biggest case in France. So Antoine's romantic pursuit is frustrated...
Tricked out once more as the amiably inept Chief Inspector Clouseau, Peter Sellers is bungling his way into Le Club Foot, a Paris disco frequented by dope dealers. Just then a blonde plunges out, struggling to escape a nasty-looking killer. She trips over Clouseau, which is lucky for him. She turns out to be Simone Le Gree, the former mistress-secretary of France's drug kingpin, who is out to get Clouseau. Since she is also out to get her boss, who has dropped her, she becomes the inspector's sexy sidekick in Revenge of the Pink...