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Feature: THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER Format: Import, PAL, Box set, Subtitled Label: Éclair Languages: Manufacturer: Éclair Number Of Items: 10 Publisher: Éclair Region Code: 2 Running Time: 932 minutes Studio: Éclair Features:
Editorial Review: Product Description: France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Surround ),English ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: The Vanishing Mr. Owen;;Maigret, retired, is on vacation at a luxury hotel in Cannes, the Excelsior. Madame Maigret has gone to Quimper, to care for her Aunt Émilie, in danger of dying, and Maigret has accepted the standing invitation of his old friend Mr. Louis, whom he'd known when he was a porter in a hotel on the Champs-Élysées. To his "dismay", Mr. Louis appears with news of a mysterious murder in the hotel. An unidentified man has been found drowned in the bath-tub in the suite of Mr. Ernst Owen, who has disappeared. Mr. Owen had registered as a Swede, but the embassy reports that the man of that name had died ten years earlier.;;Maigret: A First Class Murder;;A train from Berlin to Paris stops for 50 minutes at the town of Jeumont. In that time, a passenger is murdered. The first-class carriages are locked; no one can get on or off. The local police inspector, Paul Lachenal, calls in his famous uncle, Jules Maigret, for assistance. Maigret goes about his investigation in his usual methodical manner. "I like to listen to people," he says. And he promises the passengers he'll have the murderer caught by 9:00 PM.;;Maigret: The Open Window;;Businessman Oscar Laget is murdered in his office. The only other people in the building are accounted for in the waiting room downstairs. Maigret is called in and confines them all at the crime scene and waits to see who will crack first.;;Maigret Sets a Trap;;A serial killer had been stalking Montmartre, with five women stabbed to death, one a month. So far there are no clues, and the district is in a state of siege. Maigret arranges an interview in his office that the Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Maigret - French Production, Volume 2This production doesn't disappoint. Region 2 and PAL format means a region-free PAL/NTSC player is required but easily available. French with English subtitles allow you to practice your French without missing any of the dialogue. Rating:  - Good, but not SimenonIf you want well crafted period piece whodunnits set in a faultlessly recreated postwar France, then this is for you. If you want Simenon's Maigret, who is an intuitive rather than a deductive sleuth, and whose skill lies in wearing down the individual he instinctively suspects in a mental combat, then this is NOT for you. The stories are almost unrecognizable for any Simenon fanatic, merely situations and names being transferred into someone else's story. I found it very irritating watching the ... Read More Rating: - Definitely a Maigret Lover Must Have!For those of us who love the Georges Simenon's Chief Inspector Maigret, it was a real treat to find these dvds! We're avid fans of the books and especially of the BBC's Michael Gambon series, but there were only two seasons filmed and in seeking any other possible productions of Maigret we came across this boxed set. Ordered them immediately, after all if anyone should be able to make a believable film of Maigret stories it should be the French! Well they didn't disappoint! There are ... Read More |
