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Les Caves du Majestic
1945 Crime / Thriller
Review
Albert Préjean stars as the famed Parisian detective created by Georges Simenon
in this, the third and last of the Maigret films made by Continental Films during
the Nazi Occupation of France. Noticeably different in tone to the preceding two
films (Picpus and Cécile
est morte), Les Caves du Majestic is more successful at evoking the famous
atmosphere of Simenon’s novels and is probably the best of the three films.
The dapper Préjean is still too much the conventional matinee idol to be convincing as the pipe-smoking sleuth, but his enormous popularity at the time ensured the film was a success. The film’s screenwriter, Charles Spaak, was arrested by the German police before his work on the film was completed. Unable to work in prison, he was permitted to work on the script in the studio whilst the film was being made. © James Travers 2003 Write a review for this film...User Comments
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Director:
Richard Pottier
Starring: Albert Préjean, Suzy Prim, Jacques Baumer, Denise Grey, Jean Marchat Synopsis
Madame Petersen, the wife of a wealthy industrialist, is murdered at the Majestic Hotel
and Inspector Maigret is called in to investigate. Suspicion falls on the dead woman’s
one-time secret lover, Arthur Donge. Maigret is doubtful but then he discovers that
before she died Madame Petersen was being blackmailed by someone with the initials "A.D."
Clearly, it’s an open and shut case. Or is it?
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