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Category: Mystery
All Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 1949
Country: USA, France
Runtime: 97
Rating: 4.4 (0)
Languages: English, French
Director: Burgess MeredithIrving AllenCharles Laughton
Sound: Mono, Mono
Taglines:PARIS As Youve Never Seen It Before! DIFFERENT from any picture youve ever seen!...A master-piece of suspense and action, whose every moment of high excitement was filmed IN COLOR. PARIS...GAY, ALLURING...MASKING A STRANGE ADVENTURE! MURDER! MYSTERY! MANHUNT! in the gayest city in the world! and the CITY OF PARIS in The Man on the Eiffel Tower PARIS...as youve never seen it before! PARIS...Gay, Alluring...Masking a Strange Adventure!
Writing by: Harry Brown - writer
Georges Simenon - novel "A Battle of Nerves"
Produced by: Irving Allen - producer
Franchot Tone - producer
Cast: Charles Laughton - Inspector Jules Maigret
Franchot Tone - Johann Radek
Burgess Meredith - Joseph Heurtin
Robert Hutton - Bill Kirby
Jean Wallace - Edna Wallace
Patricia Roc - Helen Kirby
Belita - Gisella Heurtin
George Thorpe - Comelieu
William Phipps - Janvier
William Cottrell - Moers
Chaz Chase - Waiter
Music: Michel Michelet
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt...
Plot: In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder (Burgess Meredith) is suspected, but Radek keeps taunting the police until they realize that he is the killer. The police and Maigret (Charles Laughton) are led on chases through the streets and over the rooftops of Paris and finally up the girders of the Eiffel Tower.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
In the opening credits, the "City of Paris" is given fifth billing as a star of the film.
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Emmy Lou gets out of the elevator at the thirty-fifth floor, she leaves the threatening gangsters behind, but they are there waiting for her when the elevator opens on the ground floor.
Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 1949
Country: USA, France
Runtime: 97
Rating: 4.4 (0)
Languages: English, French
Director: Burgess MeredithIrving AllenCharles Laughton
Sound: Mono, Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Harry Brown - writer
Georges Simenon - novel "A Battle of Nerves"
Produced by: Irving Allen - producer
Franchot Tone - producer
Cast: Charles Laughton - Inspector Jules Maigret
Franchot Tone - Johann Radek
Burgess Meredith - Joseph Heurtin
Robert Hutton - Bill Kirby
Jean Wallace - Edna Wallace
Patricia Roc - Helen Kirby
Belita - Gisella Heurtin
George Thorpe - Comelieu
William Phipps - Janvier
William Cottrell - Moers
Chaz Chase - Waiter
Music: Michel Michelet
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt...
Plot: In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder (Burgess Meredith) is suspected, but Radek keeps taunting the police until they realize that he is the killer. The police and Maigret (Charles Laughton) are led on chases through the streets and over the rooftops of Paris and finally up the girders of the Eiffel Tower.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
In the opening credits, the "City of Paris" is given fifth billing as a star of the film.
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Emmy Lou gets out of the elevator at the thirty-fifth floor, she leaves the threatening gangsters behind, but they are there waiting for her when the elevator opens on the ground floor.
Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Producer Irving Allen was the original director, but after only three days of shooting, Charles Laughton threatened to quit if Burgess Meredith did not take over. Laughton directed the scenes in which Meredith appeared.
- There were various production problems on this picture, including Charles Laughtons threatening to walk off the picture if the original director, Irving Allen (who was also one of the films producers) wasnt replaced (star Burgess Meredith eventually replaced him as director). Allen himself was very dissatisfied with the final results. After its initial run, he bought the film rights back from RKO and kept the prints out of circulation for a long time. Many believed that the film was lost, even Meredith. However, it has been recently released on VHS and can be relatively easily found at rental stores.
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