Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prolific typewriter, and it calls for someone like his Inspector Maigret to solve it. The cast includes big-eyed, beautiful Dominique Lacaze, with a hint of mystery about her origins, and the two men of great talent and enormous wealth whom she married -Art Collector Paul Guillaume and Industrialist Jean Walter. There are the nagging riddles of their deaths, the odd behavior of her elegant brother Jean, the mysterious comings and goings of the magnetic Dr. Lacour, the ex-paratrooper willing to murder for money, and the fetching blonde prostitute called Maïté. And, finally, there...
...anyone save a direct heir. The Guillaumes had been childless in nine years of marriage; yet now the rumor spread that, surprisingly, the beautiful Madame Guillaume was pregnant. Ten months later a baby boy appeared in her household. In 1941 she formally adopted the child, named him Jean-Pierre Guillaume, though he was often called Paulo. The records show only that he was born in Paris on Nov. 30, 1934, of unknown parents...
...road, stepped out and was knocked down by a Citroen. By the time he reached a hospital, with Dr. Lacour giving first aid, he was dead of a skull fracture. Walter left a fortune estimated at $142.5 million. His heir was Dominique, who immediately appointed her brother, Jean Lacaze, as administrator of the great Zellidja enterprises in Morocco...
...Goyenetch, 22, nicknamed "Maïté." One day, as Maïté was leaving her small hotel near the Etoile, a man thrust a card into her hand, said: "There's money in it for you." The card bore the telephone number of Jean Lacaze, Dominique's brother...
...husbands, virgin wifes, etc. Unfortunately, the identity of the murder is revealed, by a peculiar habit of knuckle cracking, to the audience near the middle of the film, and much of the suspense is lost, especially in the final scene when Gabin gives the killer-suspect, expertly acted by Jean Desailly, one of the finest and most subtle third degrees in recent film history...