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- DirectorOlivier SchatzkyStarsBruno CremerJean YanneGeorges StaquetA rich entrepreneur is assaulted and Maigret must find out who did it and why.Jean Yanne does a terrific job as nasty businessman on the canals of France. His son hangs himself, he has a daughter by a woman not his wife, it's quite a story. Very atmospheric depiction of the lives of sailors and their families. Novel, 1933.
- DirectorMichel FavartStarsBruno CremerPascale RobertsPhilippe UchanMaigret is dispatched on a special murder case to the South of France with instructions from a very high source not to make waves while solving the crime. The homicide victim, an Australian ex-pat, was a hero in the French Resistance.Maigret's called to Marseille to investigate a death. He meets a woman named Jaja who runs a bar, with a girl who makes money as a prostitute. Pascale Roberts and Marina Golovine star. Novel, 1932.
- DirectorClaude GorettaStarsBruno CremerJérôme DeschampsMichel CacciaA death at a luxury hotel gives Maigret plenty of additional headaches when one of the wealthy suspects proves to have a lot of local influence.Novel, 1932. Murder in employee's quarters of a luxury hotel. The story takes some fascinating turns.
- DirectorAndré ChandelleStarsBruno CremerAlexandre BrasseurMichael LonsdaleA wealthy Englishman emotionlessly identifies a picture of his dead wife.The novel of 1931 is titled Le charretier de la "Providence". The world of the canals and the men who work on the barges is depicted again. Fine performance by Michael Lonsdale as a dotty English aristocrat.
- DirectorSerge LeroyStarsBruno CremerAurore ClémentPatrick FloersheimMaigret is called to the canal St Martin; a headless body has been found. He finds a café nearby with an uncommunicative owner.Novel, 1955. Wonderful star casting of Aurore Clement as Alice Calas, a woman who owns a bar and has two men very attached to her. One of the best episodes.
- DirectorCharles NemesStarsBruno CremerVahina GiocanteRoger SouzaWhile assisting the police elsewhere in France, Maigret becomes unofficially involved in a missing persons case involving the husband (Marcel Blanc) of a young woman (Germaine Blanc). She's trying very hard to find her husband who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but she is very reticent when speaking about it to Maigret. As he follows her and finally gains her partial trust, the plot begins to expand to include stolen paintings, crooked boxing and a fence who turns out to be Germaine's father.Story, 1950. In the south, there is a boxing reporter in trouble. The tailless pigs of the title are little figurines. Vahina Giocante stars.
- DirectorCharles NemesStarsBruno CremerChristine BoissonAlain RimouxWhen the wealthy owner of a pharmaceutical company is shot and killed at his desk with a plundered safe behind him, Maigret wonders if it was just a robbery gone wrong. Whatever it was, he's convinced the answer lies down the block, where the victim's ex-wife and her husband, his girlfriend and his wastrel son all live.L'ombre chinoise, novel, 1932. One of the best; the star is the apartment building where the action takes place. A drug researcher named Boyer is killed in his suite. Christine Boisson is excellent as a neurotic woman neighbour.
- DirectorClaudio TonettiStarsBruno CremerAlexandre BrasseurPhilippe KhorsandMaigret is traveling by train on vacation to meet his wife and niece when he sees a man jump off the moving train. He follows and ends up in the hospital at Saint Clothilde with minor injuries. Then he finds out that there have been several unusual murders in the area, locally attributed to a "madman" and he begins an investigation with considerable resistance from local authorities.Le fou de Bergerac, novel, 1932. This one is puzzling: the characters have been kept, but the plot has been altered, to the point of creating a new story around some people who took part in the Vichy regime during the war. I would have preferred a simpler story without the Vichy theme. Some good acting from Michel Vuillermoz and Philippe Khorsand.
- DirectorPhilippe BérengerStarsBruno CremerMarianne BaslerChristian MorinMaigret goes undercover at a boarding house where a woman with two boys is occupying room number 4, hence Mrs. Quatre/Four. She has fled her home and husband with the boys and is in hiding after seeing a dead woman's body in the conservatory with her husband at night. Her reports to the police have no backing as the body is gone and her husband has also disappeared. Maigret takes on the investigation under the name Mr. Fountaine because a detail referring to a fountain, he believes, gives veracity to her story.Madame Quatre--her room number--is living at a pension when Maigret meets her. Did she kill her husband? or is she a liar? he'll find out. Marianne Basler as the woman.
- DirectorJosé PinheiroStarsBruno CremerJacqueline DannoJean-Louis FoulquierA stripper starts to report a murder that has not yet happened, but leaves before making the report official. She is found murdered that morning. Complicating matters is the relationship she had with one of Maigret's assistants.Maigret au Picratt's, novel, 1951. Very entertaining, if a little confusing. A stripper (Maria Golovine) is murdered in her club late at night; she knows about some secrets in the shady world of a strip club. Excellent evocation of a show business milieu, and terrific music from the club band.
- DirectorJacques FanstenStarsBruno CremerJean-Luc BideauManuela GouraryAfter receiving some threatening anonymous letters, an old classmate of Maigret wants him to investigate. Then, the classmate is killed.Novel, 1956. One of the better ones, both in terms of acting and atmosphere. Jean-Luc Bideau plays a really nasty man who has a chain of butcher shops; there's a long list of people who'd like to kill him. Who actually did is eventually discovered by a bemused Maigret (his barely controlled dislike of Fumale is wonderful to watch). The dead man was a generous donor to the party in power, so it's a very sensitive case.
- DirectorDenys de La PatellièreStarsBruno CremerClaude PiépluAnnick AlaneYoung Cécile and her aunt are killed. Maigret must find out who did it.Novel, 1942. Cecile is a little nuts, the men at the police station think. She hears furniture being moved around the house late at night, wonders why. Then she turns up dead. Good production, acting. Claude Pieplu shines as a disbarred lawyer with dubious morals who has a way with banter.
- DirectorLaurent HeynemannStarsBruno CremerRoger PierreMarianne GrovesMaigret is not at all pleased to become reacquainted with the dubious Leon Florentin, who was at school with him and now needs his help.Novel, 1968. One of the best in the series. Excellent acting from Roger Pierre, Marianne Groves, Hubert Saint-Macary. A woman with four lovers is found murdered in her room. Who wanted to kill her? Lies, blackmail, all sorts of motives for the men in her life.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsBruno CremerMarisa BerensonEmmanuel SalingerWhen Joseph Heurtin escapes from prison, it's because Maigret has arranged it. And if Heurtin didn't kill that old woman, who did?Novel, 1931. This is said to be the most popular Maigret novel, with two films and six TV adaptations. The emotional tone is very dark, forbidding. Mysterious setting, good acting make this memorable. A man is released from prison in hopes that he can help solve a case. Olivier Achard, Marisa Berenson.
- DirectorClaude GorettaChristian KarcherStarsBruno CremerJean-Paul RoussillonDidier FlamandMaigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.Novel, 1953. A small town, three murders, what is the link or the motive? Jean-Paul Roussillon (Conte de Noel) stars, great cameo from Lara Guirao.
- DirectorHannu KahakorpiStarsBruno CremerHeinz BennentElizabeth BourgineWhen Maigret's fellow police officer Lognon is shot in Helsinki, he's forced to travel to Finland in order to investigate Lognon's shooting with the help of a local police officer Ari Vaara. But how are a Swedish art dealer, his French wife and a mysterious Brit involved in the shooting?Novel, 1964. The action has been moved from Paris to Finland, probably for better European sales. This is not one of the stronger stories, having to do with a shady art dealer and his very eccentric wife. Heinz Bennent as the dealer.
- DirectorClaude GorettaStarsBruno CremerMichael LonsdaleRenée FaureMaigret learns from a shady acquaintance that a murder has occurred during a burglary at a dentist's home. Tho his wife has disappeared, neither the suspiciously uncooperative dentist nor his virago mother are talking, and there is no body.Novel, 1951. This is the first episode in the series. A prostitute tries to clear her boyfriend who has disappeared, fearing he'll be charged with breaking and entering in Neuilly. He found a corpse in the house he entered. The two occupants of the house, Renee Faure and Michael Lonsdale, are very creepy people indeed. Wonderful suspense and atmosphere. Laurent Petitgirard's music is very evocative.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsBruno CremerBruno TodeschiniHélène SurgèreFour serial murders in the Marais district of Paris. Maigret sets a trap. Pretending to have arrested the assassin, he sends trained plainclothes policewomen out at night as bait. Maigret hopes that the killer's pride will force him to act.It isn't fair to compare this version with the great Gabin film of 1958, which had Jean Desailly, Annie Girardot and Lucienne Bogaert as the leads--this version is anemic and uninspired. Can be ignored.
- DirectorCharles NemesStarsBruno CremerJean-Claude DauphinJeanne MarineMaigret tries to find the person responsible for the death of a harbor master who, after disappearing for six weeks, could no longer speak and had no physical reactions to anything.Simenon wrote several novels with a port setting; in this one there's a complex story of murder and hidden loves around the disappearance of a sailor named Joris.
- DirectorAndrzej KostenkoStarsBruno CremerAgnès SoralClaude FaraldoMaigret must play a long waiting game to catch a big-time crook.Novel, 1965. There's a jewelry shop hold-up, leading to the death of a policeman. Maigret questions Manuel, a criminal he's known for 20 years, and gets nothing from him. Agnes Soral (Tchao pantin) plays a woman who'll do anything... Good adaptation, acting and music from Petitgirard.
- 1967–19901h 43m7.5 (16)TV EpisodeDirectorJean-Paul SassyStarsJean RichardJean-Paul ZehnackerFrance DelahalleMaigret's elderly countess friend in the small town where he grew up, receives an ominous note that she will die before the completion of a morning Mass.Novel, 1932. There's a great film with Jean Gabin and Michel Auclair, see it and don't bother with this episode. Jean Richard was a mediocre Maigret--he had the face of a bank teller, not a subtle thoughtful one--and the other actors are forgettable too.
- DirectorPierre Granier-DeferreStarsBruno CremerEtienne ChicotDaniel GélinMaigret visits a small town trying to get information about some Polish gangsters. While staying there, he catches the flu. During his recovery, a murder occurs in the inn where he is staying.Story, 1950. Confined to a single set--an auberge--this is a quiet episode that doesn't make your pulse quicken. Daniel Gelin plays an old man, Etienne Chicot (great slacker in Hotel des Ameriques) the innkeeper.
- DirectorLaurent HeynemannStarsBruno CremerAnnie GrégorioValérie KarsentiWhile staking out a boarding-house where is staying Emile Paulus, a suspect, Detective Archambaud is wounded by a bullet shot from an undetermined place. To further the investigation, Maigret, his superior, decides to put up at the boarding-house posing as an ordinary guest. He is welcomed by Mademoiselle Clément, the dignified owner, and soon discovers the various people living in the place. He also takes a special interest in a woman who dwells in a neighboring block of flats, Françoise Boursicault, the lonely crippled wife of a purser most of the time at sea... A common thread through all of them is that... they seem to have something to hide...A single set: an hotel, L'Estrapade in a quiet residential street near the Jardin de Luxembourg. One of Maigret's men is shot while staking out the hotel; Maigret takes a room in it to figure things out. Star casting of Maria Schneider as Mme. Boursicault, a woman who knows more than she lets on.
- DirectorJacques FanstenStarsBruno CremerMartine SarceyMaurice ChevitA man finds a note signed Picpus written on a piece of blotting paper. Picpus says he is going to kill a fortune teller. And sure enough, a fortune teller is found murdered.Story, 1944. Martine Sarcey plays Mme. Le Cloaguen, the only woman Maigret ever met whom he thoroughly hated--you will find out why in this well-acted episode.
- DirectorChristian de ChalongeStarsBruno CremerAlexandre BrasseurThierry FrémontA wealthy wine dealer's death doesn't bother his wife or "secretary."A wine merchant is shot dead after a tryst with a girl, who's to blame? Dominique Frot has an amusing cameo, but this is not one of the best episodes.