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...Surete arrives. Irritable and coming down with a cold, Inspector Graziani starts tracking down the surviving occupants of the compartment. But locating them takes time. Meanwhile someone else is having better luck-and simplifying the Inspector's task...
...anti-U.S. tirade, which could not have pleased his dour Soviet guest. However, Egypt's leader was full of praise for "U.A.R.-Soviet solidarity." Then they went off to see the sights. At the High Dam and the Soviet-sponsored projects, Kosygin was largely the unsmiling inspector general from the home office. He was received well enough-except in one exchange with an unseen underground Egyptian worker at the dam site. Peering into a 100-ft. hole, Kosygin was startled by a hollow cry from within: "Long live Nasser! Long live Gamal!" Then, as an afterthought, "Welcome, Kosygin...
...wife soon has reason to leave Nice on a bus. He follows her by car, but at the first rest stop she vanishes. Next morning her body is found at the bottom of a ravine. The coincidence of two dead wives materializing at bus stops piques the interest of Inspector Robert Hossein, a sadist who practices police brutality with chilling Gallic esprit. Soon accusations and counteraccusations begin to ricochet off the walls. Having committed a fairly perfect crime at the outset, Frobe takes murderous pride in his achievement. Though Ronet is guilty only of intent to murder, he feels responsible...
...Charles Playhouse would certainly deserve praise just for avoiding these pitfalls, for giving us an amusing and coherent Inspector General. But it has done more than that. It has taken the trouble to understand and explain Gogal, to let the ridiculously funny situations arise from the characters Gogol has created. The result is a biting portrait of rural Russia and an evening of theatre that is pure...
...Inspector General is the classic case of mistaken identity. The officials of an unnamed village learn that an inspector from St. Peterburg will soon visit their town, and may be travelling incognito. When they hear that a well-dressed stranger from Petersburg has arrived at the inn, they assume that he is their dreaded visitor. Actually, the young man is just a penniless fop who had lost all his money at cards and is stuck at the inn because he can't pay his bill. The mayor and his subordinates proceed to stuff their inspector with food, drink, and money...