Kino Lorber will release on Blu-ray Inspector Maigret Collection (1958-1963). The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on June 2.
RELEASE CONTENT:
MAIGRET SETS A TRAP
Description: Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Jean Gabin is perfect as Georges Simenon's secure and steady sleuth, and old-hand Jean Delannoy expertly keeps up the pace and suspense in this enjoyable whodunnit. Based on the novel by Georges Simenon.
MAIGRET AND THE ST. FIACRE CASE
Description: Inspector Maigret is summoned by the Countess to the Château de Saint-Fiacre, where she shows him a letter she has received predicting the day on which she will die. Based on the novel by Georges Simenon.
MAIGRET SEES RED
Description: Jean Gabin (Port of Shadows) returns for his final outing in the role he was born to play—Georges Simenon's punctilious, pipe-smoking sleuth—in Maigret Sees Red (Maigret voit rouge). Three men, cruising Paris's Pigalle district in a Chevrolet, shoot a bystander. When the police arrive, the body is gone. The good Inspector Maigret suspects a ring of U.S. mobsters when the trail leads him to a bowling alley where Americans gather and a mysterious femme fatale called Lily (Françoise Fabian, My Night at Maud's) works. Maigret's old FBI buddy advises him not to cross swords with these underworld cutthroats. But the dogged detective resolves to carry out his investigation to the bitter end in this Simenon page-turner turned neo-noir cinema by Gilles Grangier, director of Gabin-fronted gems like Rhine Virgin, Hi-Jack Highway, Speaking of Murder and The Night Affair. Co-starring Marcel Bozzuffi (The French Connection) and Michel Constantin (Le Trou); music by Michel Legrand (The Thomas Crown Affair) and Francis Lemarque (Playtime).
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW Audio Commentary for Maigret Sets a Trap by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson
NEW Audio Commentary for Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case by Entertainment Journalists Bryan Reesman and Mike Sargent
NEW Audio Commentary for Maigret Sees Red by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams