Gas, Inspector Palmu! (1961)

Original title

Kaasua, komisario Palmu!

Directed by

Matti Kassila

Genre

crime film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

K-12

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Inspector Palmu investigates a murder case that involves a wealthy woman's death. The story follows his humorous and methodical questioning of various quirky suspects. It is a Finnish crime film from 1961.

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What happens

Gas, Inspector Palmu! (original Finnish title: Kaasua, komisario Palmu!) is a 1961 Finnish crime movie directed by Matti Kassila. It is a sequel to Inspector Palmu's Mistake and is followed by The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu. The main cast of actors is the same as that of the first though some actors such as Elina Salo, Pentti Siimes and Aino Mantsas play different characters. It is based on the first Inspector Palmu novel Who Murdered Mrs. Skrof? (Kuka murhasi rouva Skrofin?) by Mika Waltari but was the second one filmed, after Inspector Palmu's Mistake. Unlike the first film it was produced by Fennada-Filmi. According to director Kassila, Toivo Särkkä (the producer of the first film) didn't like the story of the novel and thus its rights were purchased by Fennada producer Mauno Mäkelä, who also produced the third movie The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu (1962). The film features the first character in Finnish cinema history who is a homosexual: the artist Kurt Kuurna. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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