The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Thriller
5.1/10
|US
|en
|97 min
Release Date: 1949-12-12
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
A & T Film Productions, Inc.RKO Radio Pictures
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
6/10
It's unfortunate that the "Ansco" colour film used on this 1949 adaptation of Georges Simenon's novel "A Battle of Nerves" has made much of this rather dreary crime caper feel as if you are watching it through yellow cellophane. Despite Charles Laughton being quite decent in the role of the famous detective "Maigret" trying to track down a murderer and an extortionist, the thing just bumbles along...
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