
97 minutes
12/12/1949
A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize that they may have to wrong man.

Charles Laughton
as Inspector Jules Maigret

Franchot Tone
as Johann Radek

Burgess Meredith
as Joseph Heurtin

Robert Hutton
as Bill Kirby

Jean Wallace
as Edna Wallace

Patricia Roc
as Helen Kirby

Belita
as Gisella Heurtin
George Thorpe
as Comelieu

William Phipps
as Janvier
William Cottrell
as Moers
Chaz Chase
as Waiter

Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Professor Grollet

Howard Vernon
as Inspector (uncredited)