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A Man's Neck (French: La tête d'un homme) is a 1933 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Gaston Jacquet and Gina Manès. It is an adaptation of the 1931 novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simenon, featuring the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Directed by Julien Duvivier. Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he’s dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it’s a deal.
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- Les Films Marcel Vandal et Charles Delac
- Julien Duvivier
An in-depth review of the film La Tete d'un homme (1933), aka A Man's Neck, directed by Julien Duvivier, featuring Harry Baur, Valery Inkijinoff, Alexandre Rignault.
- Julien Duvivier
Feb 24, 2021 · La tête d’un homme, also known as either A Man’s Neck or A Man’s Head is a superb seedy crime story. Duvivier’s camera is constantly floating around—Murnau-like mobility (this is before Ophuls and Duvivier is a peer with Renoir) with Hitchcock’s keen focus on the details (Duvivier is telling you with the eyeline of the camera ...
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The guy was a fiend, and one of his most famous creations was Detective Jules Maigret. Maigret was a part of 75 novels and 28 short stories, and his fifth novel was A Battle of Nerves. Duvivier got a hold of Battle of Nerves around 1931, and by 1933 it was a feature film called La tête d’un homme.
A Man's Neck is a film directed by Julien Duvivier with Harry Baur, Valery Inkijinoff, Alexandre Rignault, Gaston Jacquet .... Year: 1933. Original title: La tête d'un homme. Synopsis: Willy Ferriere is dead broke and his mistress costs a lot. One day, he says in a pub that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt.
