The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)

★ 5.1 1h 37m IMDb

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.

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

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Cast

Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton as Inspector Jules Maigret Died 1962 · Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English-American stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...
Franchot Tone
Franchot Tone as Johann Radek Died 1968 · Niagara Falls, New York, USA Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and many other films through the 1960s. In the early 1960s...
Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith as Joseph Heurtin Died 1997 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, and director. He was known for his roles as The Penguin in the 1960s TV ve...
Robert Hutton
Robert Hutton as Bill Kirby Died 1994 · Kingston, New York, USA Robert Hutton (born Robert Bruce Winne; June 11, 1920 – August 7, 1994) was an American actor. Robert Bruce Winne was born in Kingston, New York, and he grew up in Ulster County, New York. He was the...
Jean Wallace
Jean Wallace as Edna Wallace Died 1990 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Born Jean Walasek in Chicago to John T. Walasek and Mary A. Walasek (née Sharkey), Wallace began her career as a model then got her first small movie role at the age of seventeen.
Patricia Roc
Patricia Roc as Helen Kirby Died 2003 · Hampstead, London, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Patricia Roc (born Felicia Miriam Ursula Herold; 7 June 1915 – 30 December 2003) was an English film actress, popular in the Gainsborough melodramas such as Mado...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 6/10 Jul 09, 2022
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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