A Man's Neck (film)

A Man's Neck (French: La tête d'un homme[1]) is a 1933 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier[2] and starring Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Gaston Jacquet and Gina Manès.[1]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.[3] It was remade in 1950 as The Man on the Eiffel Tower.[3]

A Man's Neck
Harry Baur as Maigret
Directed byJulien Duvivier
Produced byCharles Delac
Marcel Vandal
Written byPierre Calmann
Louis Delaprée
Julien Duvivier
Georges Simenon (novel)
StarringHarry Baur
Valéry Inkijinoff
Alexandre Rignault
Music byJacques Belasco
CinematographyArmand Thirard
Edited byMarthe Poncin
Production
company
Les Films Marcel Vandal et Charles Delac
Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
18 February 1933
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch.

Cast

  • Harry Baur as Commissaire Jules Maigret
  • Valéry Inkijinoff as Radek
  • Alexandre Rignault as Joseph Heurtin
  • Gaston Jacquet as Willy Ferrière
  • Louis Gauthier as Le juge
  • Henri Échourin as Inspecteur Ménard
  • Marcel Bourdel as Inspecteur Janvier
  • Frédéric Munié as L'avocat
  • Armand Numès as Le directeur de la police
  • Charles Camus as L'hôtelier
  • René Alexandre as Le chauffeur
  • Gina Manès as Edna Reichberg
  • Missia as La chanteuse des rues
  • Oléo as La femme de chambre
  • Line Noro as La fille
  • Damia as La femme lasse
  • Jérôme Goulven as Un témoin
  • Jane Pierson as La cuisinière
  • René Stern as Le gérard de l'Éden
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References

  1. Conway 2004, p. 155.
  2. Spicer 2010, p. 279.
  3. Hardy 1997, p. 216.

Bibliography

  • Conway, Kelley (2004). Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520240193.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Hardy, Phil (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520215382.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Spicer, Andrew (2010). Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810873780.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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