Title from web page. Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. Albert Prejean.
Summary:
With trademark hat and pipe, Albert Prejean stars as the venerable Inspector Maigret in two first-rate Georges Simenon adaptations from the 1940s. PICPUS (1943): Whilst moving into her new Paris apartment, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Soon more corpses pile up near the metro station Picpus and the eponymous street: a clairvoyant, a blind man, a doctor, a real estate agent. These people have certainly got something in common, but what can it be? Maigret is summoned to investigate in this thrilling whodunit from director Richard Pottier. In CECILE IS DEAD! (1944) Santa Relli plays a young woman named Cecile, who keeps coming to Quai des Orfv̈res to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household. The esteemed detective and his colleagues are annoyed⁵until Cecile winds up dead. Maigret must crack the mystery in this stylish film noir from director Maurice Tourneur.
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