Maigret - Volume 1 - 10-DVD Box Set ( Les scrupules de Maigret / Maigret et l'inspecteur Cadavre / Les petits cochons sans queue / La maison de Félicie / Signé Picpus / Maigret et l'ombre chinoise / Maigret voit double / Mon ami Maigret / Maigret et l'enfant ) ( Maigret Has Scruples / Maigret's Rival / Maigret and the Toy Village / To Any Lengths / The Shadow in the Courtyard / Death of a Nobody / My Friend Maigret / Elusive Witness )

Maigret - Volume 1 - 10-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les scrupules de Maigret / Maigret et l'inspecteur Cadavre / Les petits cochons sans queue / La maison de Félicie / Signé Picpus / Maigret et l'ombre chinoise / Maigret voit double / Mon ami Maigret / Maigret et l'enfant
Alternate Title: Maigret Has Scruples / Maigret's Rival / Maigret and the Toy Village / To Any Lengths / The Shadow in the Courtyard / Death of a Nobody / My Friend Maigret / Elusive Witness
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Surround )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
885 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1997-2004 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Canada ( USA, Canada )
Czech Republic ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
France ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Pierre Joassin
Charles Nemes
Christian de Chalonge
Laurent Heynemann
Jacques Fansten
François Luciani
Bruno Gantillon
Pierre Granier-Deferre

Written By:
Pierre Granier-Deferre
Michel Grisolia
Pierre Joassin
Steve Hawes
Claire Level
Georges Simenon
Dominique Garnier
Laurence Kilberg
Stéphane Palay

Actors:
Bruno Cremer ..... Commissaire Jules Maigret
Georges Siatidis ..... Xavier Marton
Pascale Arbillot ..... Gisèle Marton
Florence Hebbelynck ..... Jany
Olivier Darimont ..... L'inspecteur Lambert
Renaud Rutten ..... L'inspecteur Vandermeulen
Michel Guillou ..... Le commissaire Marcel Deruyter
Jean-Michel Vovk ..... Harris Schwob
Anne Carpriau ..... La concierge de l'hôtel
André Debaar ..... Le ministre
Félicien de Heusch ..... Le gamin
Elsa Erroyaux ..... La vendeuse de Chez Schwob
Philippe Gouders ..... L'huissier du ministère
Michael Hirsch ..... Le médecin légiste
Thomas Leruth ..... Le marchand de jouets
Jacques Boudet ..... Inspecteur Cadavre
Nade Dieu ..... Geneviève Naud
Philippe Bas ..... Louis
Jean-Pierre Moulin ..... Etienne Naud
Axelle Abbadie ..... Louise Naud
Renaud Verley ..... Alban Groult-Cotelle
Claire Wauthion ..... Madame Groult-Cotelle
Nadia Barentin ..... La postière
Gabriel Cattand ..... Le chef de cabinet
André Debaar ..... Docteur Petit
Jo Rensonnet ..... Désiré
Gaëtan Wenders ..... Edouard Govaert
Nicole Madinier ..... La mère de Louis
Marie-Rose Meysman ..... Madame Retailleau
Vahina Giocante ..... Germaine Leblanc
Roger Souza ..... Le commissaire Pardi
Thérèse Liotard ..... La comtesse
Karim Adda ..... L'inspecteur Launay
Réginald Huguenin ..... Le Gentil
Philippe Landoulsi ..... Freddie
Jeanne Herry ..... Félicie
Pierre Diot ..... Christiani
Jean O'Cottrell ..... Janvier
Renée Le Calm ..... Madame Chaucoi (as Renée Lecalm)
Jean-Pierre Bagot ..... Charles Morin
Bonnafet Tarbouriech ..... Emile, le patron
Patrick Massieu ..... Ernest Lascouis
Monique Mauclair ..... Lucienne Lascouis
Nicolas Guimbard ..... Jacques Pétillon
Jean-Michel Meunier ..... Fromentin
Nicole Dubois ..... Receveuse des postes
Christelle Cornil ..... Léontine
Martine Gautier ..... Infirmière
Jean Tom ..... Joueur de cartes
Jean-Paul Bonnaire ..... L'inspecteur Battesti
Pierre Diot ..... L'inspecteur Christiani
Franck Gourlat ..... Jeff Van Houtte
Emilie Lafarge ..... Léa
Gilbert Georges Cazeuneuve ..... François Keller
Chloé Lambert ..... Juliette Keller
Nicolas Larzul ..... Hubert Van Houtte
Philippe Bardy ..... Pierre Rousselet
Eva Saint-Paul ..... Mme Keller
Christine Paolini ..... Mme Guillot
Jacques Brucher ..... Le professeur Magnin
Michel Modo ..... Le patron du bougnat
Anne Mercier ..... La patronne du bouchat
Rémy Roubakha ..... Jean Guillot
Martine Sarcey ..... Madame Lecloguen
Maurice Chevit ..... Monsieur Lecloaguen
Frédérique Bonnal ..... Mademoiselle Roy
Olivier Pajot ..... Monsieur Blaise
Gérard Bôle du Chaumont ..... Mascouvin
Florence Pelly ..... Berthe
Armelle Deutsch ..... Emma
Marc Dudicourt ..... M. Drouin
Robert Plagnol ..... Le juge
Matthias Van Khache ..... Inspecteur Maury
Christine Boisson ..... Germaine Martin
Alain Rimoux ..... Edgar Martin
Estelle Skornik ..... Nine Moinard
Valentine Valera ..... Madeleine Dormoy-Boyer
Josiane Stoléru ..... Mathilde
Sylvie Flepp ..... Mme Boursier
Jean-François Poron ..... Le colonel
Yves Beneyton ..... Saint-Marc
Cédric Chevalme ..... Bertin
Olivier Brun ..... Daniel Boyer
Michel Elias ..... Luc Vignal
Isabelle Petit-Jacques ..... Jeanne Boyer
Alexandre Brasseur ..... Paul Lachenal
Laure Duthilleul ..... Evelyne Tremblet
Aladin Reibel ..... Monsieur Magine
Julien Cafaro ..... Inspecteur Olmetta
Eléonore Gosset ..... Francine Tremblet
Consuelo De Haviland ..... Josette Keller
Jean-Paul Muel ..... Monsieur Mauvre
Jean-Pierre Becker ..... Le vieilleur de nuit
Jean-Luc Porraz ..... Mathieu Lanzeac
Sylvie Flepp ..... Concierge
Christian Loustau ..... Patron hôtel
Daniel Laloux ..... Forain stand de tir
Jean-Marie Retby ..... Responsable stand de tir (as Jean-Marie Redby)
Jérôme Keen ..... Juge d'instruction
Michael Morris ..... Inspecteur Pyke
Annie Sinigalia ..... Ginette
Anna Korwin ..... Mrs. Wilcox
Marc Chapiteau ..... Carrouge
François Lalande ..... Zucca
Jean-Michel Portal ..... Yann Deferre
Blandine Bury ..... Anna
Emmanuel Guttierez ..... Philippe de Moricourt
Georges Neri ..... Justin
Sara Martins ..... Jojo
Jean-Christian Grinevald ..... Le dentiste
Mama Prassinos ..... Aglaë
Stanislas Crevillén ..... Etienne
Anne Roussel ..... Hélène
Ginette Garcin ..... Denise
Roger Dumas ..... Dupin-Duclos
Sylvie Granotier ..... Madame Dupin-Duclos
Jacqueline Jehanneuf ..... Marthe
Philippe Duclos ..... Thiberge
Jean Martin ..... Mézières
Steve Kalfa ..... Castagnet
André Penvern ..... Luchard
Jacques Goasguen ..... Le curé
Tansou ..... Monsieur Gros
Jacques Gallo ..... Maurice
Yan Duffas ..... Julien Loret

Synopsis:

Les scrupules de Maigret (Maigret Has Scruples):
Xavier Marton, the head of the toy department at the Grands Magasins du Louvre, a model train specialist, visits M to say that he thinks he wife wants to poison him, but leaves while M is out of the room.
Maigret et l'inspecteur Cadavre (Maigret's Rival):
M travels to the tiny town of Saint-Aubin-les-Marais, near Niort, in the Vendée, at the request of the Examining Magistrate Victor Bréjon.
Les petits cochons sans queue:
The body of Ernest Borms, a Viennese doctor, is found on the walks of the Bois de Boulogne, not far from the Porte de Bagatelle.
La maison de Félicie (Maigret and the Toy Village):
M is at a new little community on the Seine near Poissy, Jeanneville Estates, with Félicie, who had been the housekeeper of Jules Lapie, who'd been murdered.
Maigret et le clochard (Maigret and the Bum):
An attempted murder of a down-and-outer: While he was sleeping under the Pont Marie, someone had hit 'Doc' over the head and tossed him into the Seine to drown, but a couple of Belgian bargemen nearby had fished him out in time to save him.
Signé Picpus (To Any Lengths):
Joseph Mascouvin reports to the police that he has found a note on a blotter in a café saying that a fortuneteller will be murdered at 5:00, and in fact, MlleJeanne is found murdered shortly after.
Maigret et l'ombre chinoise (The Shadow in the Courtyard):
M is called to the Place des Vosges, where the owner of a serum company, Raymond Couchet, has been found shot to death, seated at his desk.
Maigret voit double (Death of a Nobody):
M is called to the apartment of Maurice Tremblet, where, according to his wife, Juliette Tremblet, he was getting ready for bed, when she heard a strange pshuittt sound, and he fell over dead.
Mon ami Maigret (My Friend Maigret):
While Inspector Pyke of Scotland Yard is staying with M to observe his methods, M receives word of a murder in the Midi, on the island of Porquerolles, of Marcellin, a man who claims to have been M's friend.
Maigret et l'enfant de choeur (Elusive Witness):
While M has been posted to a provincial town for six months or more, to reorganize their Flying Squad, a 12-year-old altar-boy, Justin, reports that he'd seen a dead body in the Rue Sainte-Catherine on his way to the morning mass at the hospital. But the body has disappeared without a trace.

Les scrupules de Maigret (Maigret Has Scruples):
Xavier Marton, the head of the toy department at the Grands Magasins du Louvre, a model train specialist, visits M to say that he thinks he wife wants to poison him, but leaves while M is out of the room. Later in the day the man's wife, Gisèle Marton, also visits M, to tell her side of the story, which is that her husband is having delusions. Marton comes the next day, and agrees to have another examination with a psychiatrist. But he warns M that if she poisons him, he'll shoot her before he dies. Meanwhile, M has had both of them investigated, and finds that Gisèle's sister, Jenny, is living with them, and that Marton is apparently enamored of her. Gisèle, on the other hand, is apparently the lover of her employer, M. Harris. M has the house watched during the night, and by morning Marton is dead, accidentally poisoned by Jenny, when Gisèle switched her cup of tea with her husband's. He had poisoned his own, with enough to make him sick, but not to kill him. Jenny thought he hadn't the nerve, so she added the poison to kill her sister.

Maigret et l'inspecteur Cadavre (Maigret's Rival):
M travels to the tiny town of Saint-Aubin-les-Marais, near Niort, in the Vendée, at the request of the Examining Magistrate Victor Bréjon. His brother-in-law, Étienne Naud had asked him for help, since after the death of a young man, Albert Retailleau, rumors had been flying that Naud was involved. M is surprised to see Old Cadaver, Justin Cavre, who'd been on the force with M for 20 years till forced to resign due to problems caused by his wife. But Cavre, who also goes to Saint Aubin, ignores him. M quickly learns that no one in town wants to help, except one young man,Louis Fillou, who'd been Albert's friend. M learns that Albert had been the lover of Geneviève Naud, and had gone to see her the night he was killed. But that night he'd been angry, and told Louis it was all over. M is surprised when Alban Groult-Cotelle, a friend and frequent house guest at the Naud's, appears at the Naud's house with a hotel receipt, showing his 'alibi' for the night of the crime. M begins to understand, watching Geneviève's face, and accompanies Alban home, where he finds Cavre. Naud calls his brother-in-law to have him call off M, but before leaving M summons all together at Naud's. Alban, in his 40s, had been having an affair with young Geneviève. When she became pregnant, he'd had her take up with Albert, to claim he was the father. Naud had seen him leave her room by the window the night he had argued with her, and killed him in a rage. Albert had learned of the deception. After that, with Cavre's help, they'd paid off everyone to forget about it. M left it that way, and learned that two years later, after the Naud's had moved to Argentina, Alban had married Geneviève.

Les petits cochons sans queue:
The body of Ernest Borms, a Viennese doctor, is found on the walks of the Bois de Boulogne, not far from the Porte de Bagatelle. He'd been shot, but there isn't a clue. M has an article inserted into the papers that the murder had been quickly solved and that there would be a reenactment of the crime the next morning. The people who show up at the reenactment are followed, and one seems a likely subject. He leads M and his investigators on a chase around Paris that lasts five days, until he is finally identified by a concierge asStephan Strevzki. M has another article inserted in the paper that the man's wife, Dora Strevzki has disappeared, and when Strevzki reads the paper, he gives himself up, thinking his wife had gotten away. He'd known she was Borms' mistress, and suspected she shot him when she learned he wasn't serious about her. Strevzki had been trying to lead the police away from her. With the help of the best lawyers she was almost acquitted received a year with remission of sentence.

La maison de Félicie (Maigret and the Toy Village):
M is at a new little community on the Seine near Poissy, Jeanneville Estates, with Félicie, who had been the housekeeper of Jules Lapie, who'd been murdered. Félicie, 24, acts more like a teenager, and refuses to be of any help whatsoever. Lapie, know as Peg Leg, had been shot in his room. From the evidence he appears to have entertained someone, but Félicie denies that anyone had been there. At the funeral M sees his brother's family and his nephew,Jacques Pétillon. Immediately after the funeral, Félicie eludes Lucas, who M had called up there, and runs to Paris, where Janvier picks up her trail. She'd wandered around Paris trying to shake Janvier, then returned. M put Janvier onto checking into Pétillon, and he had results. Pétillon was clearly a nervous wreck, dashing around, missing work, traveling toRouen to try and locate a girl, Adèle, at a brothel there. M goes to Montmartre to interrogate Pétillon, but while he is on a corner, bringing him to the Quai des Orfèvres, someone shoots him, and he is taken to Beaujon Hospital in poor condition.

Maigret et le clochard (Maigret and the Bum):
An attempted murder of a down-and-outer: While he was sleeping under the Pont Marie, someone had hit 'Doc' over the head and tossed him into the Seine to drown, but a couple of Belgian bargemen nearby had fished him out in time to save him. His identity card reveals that he isFrançois Keller, from Mulhouse, where, coincidentally, Mme M's sister lives. Thus M learns that he had been a doctor there, left his wife and daughter and gone off to Gabon, in Africa, to work 'like Dr. Schweitzer.' But things hadn't gone the way he'd hoped, and for the past 15 years or more, he'd been a clochard in Paris, sleeping under the bridges, working as a sandwich man to buy his bottle of wine.

Signé Picpus (To Any Lengths):
Joseph Mascouvin reports to the police that he has found a note on a blotter in a café saying that a fortuneteller will be murdered at 5:00, and in fact, MlleJeanne is found murdered shortly after. Locked in her kitchen is an old man, Picard, actually her father, who has been masquerading for ten years as Octave Le Cloaguen, so that Mme Antoinette Le Cloaguen can continue to receive the yearly income payable to her husband as long as he lives. Picard had been a tramp in Cannes at the time of Le Cloaguen's death, and Mme Le Cloaguen had spotted him as closely resembling her husband. Jeanne's body was found by Mme.Roy, who kept an inn, the Pretty Pigeon. where M stayed and met Émile Blaise, in fact a most cunning and pitiless blackmailer, using the gangster Justin of Toulons to collect money and get tough with those who didn't pay, and Mascouvin and others to supply him with information others would pay to have kept quiet. Mascouvin read his firm's letters, and copied out anything of value. Mlle Jeanne had access to people's secrets, and was another informer. Justin had spotted Picard at Jeanne's, followed him home, and set up the blackmail of Mme Le Cloaguen. Jeanne (Marie Picard) had no doubt found out, worried for her father, and perhaps threatened to give the game away. It was decided to ask Mme Le Cloaguen for an entire year's annuity, and for Justin to kill Mlle Jeanne at 5:00. Mascouvin had known, perhaps been told to frighten him, but feeling guilty, had stumbled on a way to notify the police.

Maigret et l'ombre chinoise (The Shadow in the Courtyard):
M is called to the Place des Vosges, where the owner of a serum company, Raymond Couchet, has been found shot to death, seated at his desk. Behind him, the empty safe, unlocked, but unreachable with him in his chair. M wonders if the robbery and murder were two separate crimes. He soon becomes convinced that the answer lies among the residents of the block of apartments. Couchet's former wife,Juliette Martin and her husband live across the square. His girlfriend, Nine Moinard, a sometime dancer, lives in the Hôtel Pigalle, and in the next room lives Couchet's son, Roger Couchet, who leads a wasted existence. Mme Martin comes to M's office, and M visits her home to return a forgotten umbrella, where he discovers that the window overlooks Couchet's office. Both Mme and M. Edgar Martin had been seen scavenging among the rubbish bins the night of the crime. Roger commits suicide, jumping out of his hotel window, and Couchet's will is found, leaving a third of his fortune to his wife, his ex-wife, and his girlfriend. Mme Martin becomes ill, and M's suspicion's focus on the Martins. M. Martin heads for the Belgian border, with M in pursuit, and they return to his apatment for a final confrontation, where it turns out his wife nagged him into robbing the safe while Couchet was away at the toilet, but he forgot his glove on the desk. She went down to the office with a revolver, was caught by Couchet, who threatened to call the police, and she shot him. Her husband, feeling guilty, tossed the money into the Seine, and didn't realize his wife was the murderer till later. His run for Belgium had been to establish her innocence, so that she could inherit. Apprehended, she loses her mind.

Maigret voit double (Death of a Nobody):
M is called to the apartment of Maurice Tremblet, where, according to his wife, Juliette Tremblet, he was getting ready for bed, when she heard a strange pshuittt sound, and he fell over dead. He seemed like such an average person, M couldn't conceive of his being killed, but in fact it had been by an airgun from the hotel across the way. Dr Paul said it was just an accident he was killed by that shot, as the bullet had hit a soft spot and bounced into his heart. When M went to Couvreur et Bellechasse where he was a cashier, it turned out he hadn't worked there for seven years. Yet he had 'gone to work' every day, and returned on time every night. M questioned his daughter, Francine Tremblet, 17, and learned that she too had secretly quit her job, and was supported by her father, who she learned by accident was no longer going to his old job, but had a 'new, better one'. A shopkeeper,Théodore Jussiaume, who sold canaries recognized the picture in the paper, and said he was 'Monsieur Charles', a good customer, who'd bought hundreds of birds from him. But he didn't know where he lived.

Mon ami Maigret (My Friend Maigret):
While Inspector Pyke of Scotland Yard is staying with M to observe his methods, M receives word of a murder in the Midi, on the island of Porquerolles, of Marcellin, a man who claims to have been M's friend. Actually, he'd been a criminal whose girlfriend, Ginette, a prostitute, M had helped to find a sanatarium for her TB years ago. M and Pyke go to the island. Jojo, a maid at the hotel, mentions to M that Marcellin had boasted that he could get money any time he wanted. M checks with the local telephone operator, and finds that Marcellin had called Ginette to find out 'what year Van Gogh had died'. M makes the connection. Marcellin had discovered thatJef de Greef, a vagabond painter, had forged a Van Gogh, and Philippe de Moricourt had bought it for his mistress, Mrs. Ellen Wilcox, an Englishwoman. One or both of them had killed Marcellin to stop him from revealing the truth.

Maigret et l'enfant de choeur (Elusive Witness):
While M has been posted to a provincial town for six months or more, to reorganize their Flying Squad, a 12-year-old altar-boy, Justin, reports that he'd seen a dead body in the Rue Sainte-Catherine on his way to the morning mass at the hospital. But the body has disappeared without a trace. The Judge in the house opposite where Justin said he saw the body said he didn't hear anyone go past, but a few houses before a man said he'd heard running. M interviews Justin and the Judge, and realizes that Justin had actually seen the body before the Judge's house, and the the killer had run after Justin, not in the opposite direction, as he'd said. M hasBesson, one of the inspectors, bring a list of the tenants of the street, and has him arrest Frankelstein, a foreigner, dealer in jewelry. M says he's a fence, and he'd killed a disgruntled gang member on his doorstep. He'd caught Justin and made him promise not to tell the true story.

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