Dear Inspector

Dear Inspector

105 mins | Comedy | Aug. 10, 1977

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.

Dear Inspector

105 mins | Comedy | Aug. 10, 1977

Dear Inspector
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Mondex Films, Les Films Ariane
Original title Tendre Poulet
Directors Philippe de Broca
Writers Claude Olivier, Jean-Paul Rouland, Philippe de Broca, Michel Audiard

Cast

Annie Girardot

as Lise Tanquerelle

Philippe Noiret

as Antoine Lemercier

Catherine Alric

as Christine Vallier

Hubert Deschamps

as Charmille

Paulette Dubost

as Mother

Roger Dumas

as Marcel Guérin, l'inspecteur

Raymond Gérôme

as Head of Criminal Division

Guy Marchand

as Beretti

Simone Renant

as Suzanne

Georges Wilson

as Alexandre Mignonac

Monique Tarbès

as Bathroom attendant

Henri Czarniak

as L'inspecteur Cascard

Maurice Illouz

as L'inspecteur Picot

Georges Riquier

as Professeur Pelletier

David Gabison

as Le doyen Levergue

Gabriel Jabbour

as Medical examiner

Armelle Pourriche

as Little Catherine

Michel Rocher

as Le laborantin

Jacques Boudet

as L'homme élégant

Anna Gaylor

as Antoine's concierge

Jacques Frantz

as L'inspecteur Verdier

Francis Lemaire

as Antonio, Le coiffeur

Jacqueline Doyen

as Madame Melun

Roger Muni

as Tailor

Sarah Sterling

as Berthe

Michel Audiard

as Le mainate (voix)

Gilbert Richard

as Le speaker

Bernard Spiegel

as Un journaliste

Colette Duval

as La pharmacienne

Jean-Pierre Rambal

as Waiter

Guy Anthony

as Monsieur de Grandville

Guy Di Rigo

as Maurice Rombard