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Feature: THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER Format: Import, PAL, Box set, Widescreen Label: Éclair Languages: Manufacturer: Éclair Number Of Items: 10 Publisher: Éclair Region Code: 2 Running Time: 891 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 Digital 2.0 ),English ( Subtitles ),WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Featurette, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: Maigret en meublé (Maigret Takes a Room): Janvier is shot in the chest while keeping watch outside Mlle. Clément's boarding house waiting for the return of Emile Paulus, a young man who lived there, suspected of having robbed a bar. M, his wife in Alsace caring for her sister, moves in the the house. He discovers Paulus hiding under Mlle. Clement's bed, but he appears to be unconnected to the shooting. A boarder, MlleBlanche Dubut, mentions to M the occasional strange condition of the blinds in the house opposite, where Mme Francoise Boursicault, the invalid wife of a ship's purser lives, and M goes to interview her. He realizes that the person who shot Janvier was apparently someone who came to visit her from time to time, and forces the issue, eventually discovering that Julien Foucrier, her lover from long ago, who had fled France twenty years earlier to escape apprehension for a robbery-murder he had committed, had returned to France, and was her visitor. He had shot Janvier to flee the apartment before the return of her husband, wrongly assuming that the watch in the street was for him. He turns himself in after M agrees to keep the woman's connection to the affair a secret. Maigret à l'école (Maigret Goes to School): Joseph Gastin, a school-master from Saint-André-sur-Mer, near La Rochelle, has been waiting for M. The ex-postmistress of his little town, Léonie Birard, had been killed, shot in the eye with a .22 from some distance, as she looked out the window of her house. Gastin, regarded as an outsider in the village, is sure that he is regarded as the prime suspect. M calls Li Average Rating:
 Rating: - Maigret- French Production, Volume 3This 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. |
