Word: simenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inspector Maigret (French). Jean Gabin keeps on his toes as Georges Simenon's flawless flatfoot, and Director Jean Dellanoy's camera is a superb shadow...
Inspector Maigret (French). Jean Gabin fits Georges Simenon's famous flatfoot like an old shoe, and Director Jean Delannoy has not spared the polish...
...dark night a woman is stabbed to death in the Rue des Rosiers. Five minutes later the criminal calls the Paris police and challenges Inspector Maigret to catch him. Enter Maigret-sometimes known as "the French Hercule Poirot"-the hero of at least 44 romans policiers by Georges Simenon and generally conceded to be one of the most believable bloodhounds in the literature. Plain, paunchy, respectable, he has the shrewdness as well as the looks of a village grocer; and in this film he is played to the liverish life by Jean Gabin...
...mattered little that BB's movie, En Cas de Malheur (In Case of Emergency), a Georges Simenon story about a successful lawyer's fatal obsession with a young slut failed to win (and that Japans "Rickshaw Man" did). A traveling movie fan named Elsa Maxwell just about guaranteed Malheur's American triumph by announcing: "Bardot is a nothing, a sexual little kitten of no importance. She has no talent except for undressing onscreen. This is a very bad thing for American youth...
Absent, unfortunately, is the masterly ability of a De la Mare or a Simenon to portray a Garden of Eden in which the black serpent of evil slides easily and naturally about its business. But Author Godden tells her tale neatly enough to content those who enjoy closeups of children's growing pains and the clashes of innocence and experience...