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French crime movies are undoubtedly the best of the species, and Inspector Maigret is no exception. In the great tradition of Rififi and Grisbi, Inspector Maigret combines suspense with psychopathy and murder to produce a superlative detective story...
Based on Georges Simenon's Maigret Sets a Trap, Inspector Maigret is a slick story of a manhunt. It opens, naturally enough, with a magnificent murder. The "Mairais Killer," so named because he does his business in the Marais quarter of Paris, has made a habit of stabbing young women. The killer challenges Inspector Maigret, who would prefer to go fishing, takes on the case...
...part of Insepctor Gallet is tailor made for the smooth, stony-faced Gabin, and he plays it to perfection, although a bit differently from the way Dostoevsky probably envisioned it. Gabin is the cever cop par excellence, and in the manner familiar to anyone who saw Inspecteur Maigret or Razzia, he steals the show...
...story might have rolled from Simenon's 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...
...just make it to the Brattle in time for the first show. Since the Brattle lets out at 7:30 you should have time for a bite to eat before leaving for the Exeter, arriving there at 9:00 and missing the short subjects, which definitely should be missed. Maigret ends at 11:00, and with luck on the traffic lights you can be back in Cambridge by 11:15, just in time for Jack Paar...