Maigret se trompe
- Episode aired Nov 11, 1994
- 1h 23m
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6.8/10
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A young prostitute is killed in a posh Paris apartment, and Maigret is on the case. Who did it?A young prostitute is killed in a posh Paris apartment, and Maigret is on the case. Who did it?A young prostitute is killed in a posh Paris apartment, and Maigret is on the case. Who did it?
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Maigret's mistake?? - Or was it that of the producers and/or director?!
This is for Lucy R Fisher -- just reviewed this episode, presumably having seen it on Talking Pictures TV last night?!
We've been watching this French series, interesting and atmospheric, albeit the location filming is in Prague (hence some Czech actors and technicians) - but the pace can be irritatingly slow!
You mention the Davies (early 60s BBC) and Gambon (90s ITV) versions, but the Gambon ones did not include this story.
The Davies ones could be a bit rushed, occasionally they clipped off a few corners from the books, but overall - given the limitations of 60s tech, and low low budgets! - they were OK. Ewen Solon was a perfect Lucas (even though shorter and rounder in the books!).
Gambon was also a great Maigret, an hour and 20 mins, maybe hour and a half, but great acting, and a bigger budget.
BY COINCIDENCE, the DAVIES version of this same story is on TPTV THIS Saturday, 10th, (or catch it on their catch-up online) so if you want to refresh your memory, there it will be. Oh, and yes these French ones ARE taking a few liberties with the books, as they see fit. However, NO excuse for Lucas NOT being his R-H man, was always so in the books!!
I'm pretty sure the ending of this one was changed, as they could show Maigret in a sympathetic light. And they'd already used up the time so needed that ending to wrap things up?!
AND NOW - added a few days later -- we've seen the Davies version again, and the title makes some sense. In this one though, they've changed the ending, added a new character, added a whole sub-plot with some children being raised in a sort of informal orphanage, and of course Lucas, ever-present in the books, doesn't appear!
In this Cremer version, the 'mistake' in the title makes NO sense -- there is no mistake! -- and there is a wildly contrived ending with a car accident, presumably because without that car crashing into the murderer, they'd have run well over the already leisurely nearly 2 hours of these episodes. Simenon has a few coincidences in the books, but he didn't write this one! So now I've downgraded my mark to a 6. The acting was fine, but I'm not forgiving this mucking about with the plot! And WHERE is Lucas?!
We've been watching this French series, interesting and atmospheric, albeit the location filming is in Prague (hence some Czech actors and technicians) - but the pace can be irritatingly slow!
You mention the Davies (early 60s BBC) and Gambon (90s ITV) versions, but the Gambon ones did not include this story.
The Davies ones could be a bit rushed, occasionally they clipped off a few corners from the books, but overall - given the limitations of 60s tech, and low low budgets! - they were OK. Ewen Solon was a perfect Lucas (even though shorter and rounder in the books!).
Gambon was also a great Maigret, an hour and 20 mins, maybe hour and a half, but great acting, and a bigger budget.
BY COINCIDENCE, the DAVIES version of this same story is on TPTV THIS Saturday, 10th, (or catch it on their catch-up online) so if you want to refresh your memory, there it will be. Oh, and yes these French ones ARE taking a few liberties with the books, as they see fit. However, NO excuse for Lucas NOT being his R-H man, was always so in the books!!
I'm pretty sure the ending of this one was changed, as they could show Maigret in a sympathetic light. And they'd already used up the time so needed that ending to wrap things up?!
AND NOW - added a few days later -- we've seen the Davies version again, and the title makes some sense. In this one though, they've changed the ending, added a new character, added a whole sub-plot with some children being raised in a sort of informal orphanage, and of course Lucas, ever-present in the books, doesn't appear!
In this Cremer version, the 'mistake' in the title makes NO sense -- there is no mistake! -- and there is a wildly contrived ending with a car accident, presumably because without that car crashing into the murderer, they'd have run well over the already leisurely nearly 2 hours of these episodes. Simenon has a few coincidences in the books, but he didn't write this one! So now I've downgraded my mark to a 6. The acting was fine, but I'm not forgiving this mucking about with the plot! And WHERE is Lucas?!
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