An Inspector Calls (1954 film) An Inspector Calls (1954 film) An Inspector Calls is a British 1954 film directed by Guy Hamilton and written for the screen by Desmond Davis. It is based upon the play "An Inspector Calls" by J.B. Priestley. It stars Alastair Sim. Set in 1912, a dinner party held by the upper class Birling family is interrupted by a man calling himself Inspector Poole, investigating the suicide of a lower class girl Eva Smith whose death is linked to each family member. "An Inspector Calls" was filmed at Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, under the auspices of the Watergate Productions Ltd.
The Travelling Companions The Travelling Companions The Travelling Companions is an 1862 oil-on-canvas painting by British artist Augustus Leopold Egg. It is held by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, presented by the John Feeney Charitable Trust in 1956. The painting measures . It depicts two well-dressed women who are sitting facing each other in a cramped first-class railway carriage, like mirror images. The women may be sisters, or may represent two elements of the character of one woman. The women are dressed identically, in the same voluminous grey silk travelling clothes, with their hats identically placed on their laps. They are arranged symmetrically