Word: girardot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the cast is equally good. As the effeminate killer, Jean Desailly is babyish and hysterical; Annie Girardot and Lucienne Bogaert as his wife and mother respectively are just demonic enough to explain his mental condition. In his short role as the gigolo, Gerard Sety is amusing and properly nervous in his frank scene that is the comic high point of the film...
...calling the famous Maigret to goad him into action. Once the pipe-smoking, perpetually weary Maigret arrives on the scene, however, the ball-game is clearly over for the murderer. Using most of the slightly illegal police grilling methods, Maigret begins to round up suspects, one of whom, Annie Girardot, turns out to be the wife of a nervous gentleman who puts up a front as a successful young architect...