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A Man's Neck(1933)
Status: Released
Date: 1933-02-18
61%
22 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
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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.
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
Gina Manès
Edna Reichberg
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.
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1933-02-18
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