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...permanently stumped. In this and the 30 other cases he re-enacts in Fabian of the Yard, the inspector relies mostly on elementary, patient common sense and laboratory work, but he flashes enough intuitive genius to hold his own with the best of the fictional homicide squad-Holmes, Maigret, Philo Vance and Nero Wolfe...
Pigs & Pity. Two years ago Godard, riding a motorbike, was seriously injured when he bumped into a trailer full of pigs driven by Butcher Auguste Maigret. He promptly sued the butcher for 14 million francs ($40,000). After hearing medical evidence, the court decided in Godard's favor, and Maigret's insurance company handed over some 8,000,000 francs...
...house, 2) a new car, 3) a new lawsuit-against the newspaper Parisien Libéré, which called him "a common crook." As an added symptom of recovery, he stood for a while outside the butcher's shop making rude faces through the window at Maigret, at whom, strangely enough, he was very sore...
International fame came to him when he created a slow-motion, absent-minded detective named Inspector Maigret, who got his man in a new book almost every month between 1929 and 1931. Maigret was later put on the shelf in favor of serious psychological novels, but Simenon still gets him down for an occasional workout to please such fans as T. S. Eliot, Deems Taylor, Claude Rains...
Robert Hutton is suitably obnoxious as the scheming young American heir, Patricia Roc is beautiful as his wife, and Jean Wallace is striking as his--ah--mistress. Laughton does no acting in the movie; he is Maigret in every characteristic--from the nervous twitch of his pipe to the walrus moustache that guards his mouth from all liquors save beer...