Cécile is Dead!
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1h 22m
Directed by Maurice Tourneur • Crime • 1944 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Albert Préjean, Santa Relli, Germaine Kerjean
With trademark hat and pipe, Albert Préjean stars as the venerable Inspector Maigret in this first-rate Georges Simenon adaptation. A young woman named Cécile keeps coming to Quai des Orfèvres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household. The esteemed detective and his colleagues are annoyed…until Cécile winds up dead. Maigret must crack the mystery in this stylish film noir.
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