The Inspector (1962)

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The Inspector is a 1962 CinemaScope DeLuxe Color British-American drama film directed by Philip Dunne, starring Stephen Boyd and Dolores Hart. Hart plays Lisa Held, a Dutch-Jewish girl who has survived the horror of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Production

Film rights were bought by 20th Century Fox in October 1960. They assigned Nelson Gidding to do a script and Mark Robson to produce and direct.

In the novel, the male hero was a middle aged man haunted by the death of his Jewish fiancée. The script adaptation made it more of a romance between the man (now younger) and the woman.

In March 1961 Natalie Wood signed to play the lead. She dropped out and Robson cast Stephen Boyd and Dolores Hart – both under long-term contracts to Fox. They had recently acted in "To the Sound of Trumpets" for Playhouse 90.

Robson ultimately decided not to direct and hired Phillip Dunne. Robson said, "Being just a producer, I don't seem to be working. I feel as though I dropped two-thirds of the job. If ever I had any doubts about it, this experience proves that directing a movie is unquestionably more important than producing it."

It was Dunne's 25th year of working at Fox.

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