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A Man's Neck(1933)
Status: Released
Date: 1933-02-18
62%
24 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
Overview:
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.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies:
Les Films Marcel Vandal et Charles Delac
Movie: A Man's Neck
Top 10 Billed Cast
Harry Baur
Commissaire Jules Maigret
Valéry Inkijinoff
Radek
Alexandre Rignault
Joseph Heurtin
Gaston Jacquet
Willy Ferrière
Gina Manès
Edna Reichberg
Louis Gauthier
Le juge
Armand Numès
Le directeur de la police
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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.
Release Date
1933-02-18
Average
6.2
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