A Man's Neck (1933)
1h 30m
Running Time
February 18, 1933Release Date
Plot.
Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
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Cast & Crew.
Harry Baur
Commissaire Jules Maigret
Valéry Inkijinoff
Radek
Alexandre Rignault
Joseph Heurtin
Gaston Jacquet
Willy Ferrière
Gina Manès
Edna Reichberg
Louis Gauthier
Le juge
Henri Échourin
Inspecteur Ménard
Marcel Bourdel
Inspecteur Janvier
Frédéric Munié
L'avocat
Armand Numès
Le directeur de la police
Charles Camus
L'hôtelier
René Alexandre
Le chauffeur
Missia
La chanteuse des rues
Damia
La femme lasse
Oléo
La femme de chambre
Line Noro
La fille
Jane Pierson
La cuisinière
Julien Duvivier
Director / Writer
Pierre Calmann
Writer / Assistant Director
Louis Delaprée
Writer
Marcel Vandal
Producer
Marcel Courmes
Sound
Marthe Poncin
Editor
Georges Wakhévitch
Art Direction
Charles Delac
Producer
Jacques Belasco
Music
Gilbert de Kniff
Assistant Director
Armand Thirard
Director of Photography
Georges Simenon
Novel
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 18, 1933
Original NameLa Tête d'un homme
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
based on novel or book
inspector
aunt
murder
murder mystery
Wiki.
A Man's Neck (French: La tête d'un homme) is a 1933 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Gaston Jacquet and Gina Manès.It is an adaptation of the 1931 novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simenon, featuring the fictional detective Jules Maigret. It was the third film in cinema history to feature the Maigret character. It was remade in 1950 as The Man on the Eiffel Tower.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch.
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