J. B. Priestley - An Inspector Calls, etc.

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Harley Quin is a wonderful character!
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Just going back to the Inspector who called - I think he's a ghost, I thought at one point that he was the 'girls' dead father, as he was with her in the hospital and she was looking at him.

In the film with Alistair Sim, the Inspector is left sitting in a chair in another room then when they look again he has disappeared!

I've never read the book as yet, and so cannot say how that ends.

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Julie wrote: "I've never read the book as yet, and so cannot say how that ends."

The play wasn't based on a book, Julie. He wrote it as a stage play. [I don't doubt that the play has been published in book form, but not as a novelisation.]

I think Priestley intended that it should have deeper interpretions. He had strong socialist convictions and it is likely that he intended Goole to be personification of social justice. I'm sure it is no accident that the play's message is veiled and enigmatic. He wanted to make people think. Curiously, the play was performed in the USSR a year before opening in London.

Priestley wrote and delivered the narration for a very good BBC documentary, "1940", many years ago. Did any of you ever see that? I taped it on VHS and later transferred it to DVD.

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