Lisa

Original title: The Inspector

1962
Approved
1h 52m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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Drama History Romance Thriller

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Director
- Philip Dunne
Writers
- Nelson Gidding
- Jan de Hartog
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

482

YOUR RATING

Director
- Philip Dunne
Writers
- Nelson Gidding
- Jan de Hartog
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Trivia
The character of the Inspector, Jongman, was somewhat altered for this film version, to make the part suitable for Stephen Boyd. He had had a long-term contract with Twentieth Century-Fox and it was still trying to build him into a major star. In the book, Jongman is a man well into middle-age, a burnt-out case worn down by a lifetime of compromises. In the film he is a much younger man whose unhappiness is caused by one specific incident, his failure to save his fiancee from death during the war. The film was a box-office flop, and Boyd left Fox soon after, although he would occasionally work for the company later on in his career.

Goofs
British agent Dickens tells Jongman that he was a soldier in one of the army units that liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz was located in Poland, hundreds of miles east of the places where the American/British and Russian forces met. Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians.

Quotes
Peter Jongman: A policeman is suppose to be a servant of justice. Mother, legal or not, this is something I have to do.

Connections
Featured in TCM Guest Programmer: Mother Dolores Hart (2014)

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Featured review

7/10

Good movie, dumbest dog in history

Saw this on FMC recently. It's a good movie, very moving, a bit over-dramatic but the story makes up for it. Great production values, good music, wonderful scenery courtesy of Holland. I loved seeing Amsterdam in the early 60's because I was there in 2005- and apparently much hasn't changed in the interim! OK so the dog. Holland is the only country to have a national dog. I learned that from a snapple cap. The national dog(the name escapes me) is the dog that are on the barges, kind of like captain's mates. I learned from this movie that they're very useful when navigating in the fog because they bark and the other barge dogs bark as well so they can tell how far they are.

So why is the barge dog in this movie the dumbest dog? Because the captain/owner is a smuggler, yet when police/inspectors board his barge the dog almost immediately sniffs out the stash area where the illegal stuff is AND on top of that goes to the trouble of opening the stash area for the police for them to see. Wow.

Other than that good movie, you may like the dog and his funny ways. He's probably a narc. ARF!