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The Man on the Eiffel Tower
PARIS... GAY, ALLURING... MASKING A STRANGE ADVENTURE!
A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize that they may have to wrong man.
- Original title
- The Man on the Eiffel Tower
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jul 9, 2022 · via TMDB
It's unfortunate that the "Ansco" colour film used on this 1949 adaptation of Georges Simenon's novel "A Battle of Nerves" has made much of this rather dreary crime caper feel as if you are watching it through yellow cellophane. Despite Charles Laughton being quite decent in the role of the famous detective "Maigret" trying to track down a murderer and an extortionist, the thing just bumbles along for far too long peppered with far too many protracted establishing shots and way too much score. Director and co-star Burgess Meredith has lost much of his sense of objectivity or proportion as the story pondersouly creeps to a conclusion that involves the truly insipid Franchot Tone as the caviar sandwich loving "Radek". The book is complex and detailed, this is lacklustre and almost amateur in it's presentation - and but for the considerable skill of the star, it would struggle to be anything more than a post-war Parisian tourist video. I'm glad I watched it, but couldn't say I'd recommend it to any but fans of soulless sepia cinema.
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Charles Laughton
Inspector Jules Maigret
Franchot Tone
Johann Radek
Burgess Meredith
Joseph Heurtin
Robert Hutton
Bill Kirby
Jean Wallace
Edna Wallace
Patricia Roc
Helen Kirby
Belita
Gisella Heurtin
William Phipps
Janvier
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Professor Grollet
Howard Vernon
Inspector (uncredited)
Stanley Cortez
Director of Photography
Burgess Meredith
Director
Franchot Tone
Producer
Georges Simenon
Novel
Deadly Revisions
My Diary of Lies
A Time to Kill
Alexandria, Private
Almost Human
Evil Words
Joyride
Lady in White
Burke & Hare
We Are What We Are
The Heart of Justice
Goodbye Lover
The Lost Samaritan
48 hours in Israel
The Roommate
The Lightship
Shadows on the Stairs
Don't Look Back
The Hand of Now
Moon of the Wolf
Dial M for Murder
The Bourne Identity
The Phantom of the Opera
The Naked City
This Gun for Hire
Evil Under the Sun
Nightfall
While the City Sleeps
Conflict
Deathtrap
Hostage House
The Pelican Brief
Union Station
Killer's Kiss
A Kiss Before Dying
The Mirror Crack'd
Overdrive
Appointment with Death
Killers
Poker Night
Dec 12, 1949
Los Angeles, California
Jan 28, 1950
New York City, New York
Feb 4, 1950
