The Man on the Eiffel Tower
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Features
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 29 January, 1950
Video Release : 02 February, 1998 |
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Disappointing crime thriller
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"The Man on the Eiffel Tower", one of two films directed by superb actor Burgess Meredith who also starred in it, considering the accomplished cast was a colossal failure. Not only was the film transfer awful, but the sophomoric, disjointed plot was only saved by the footage shot around Paris.
Impatient heir Bill Kirby played by Robert Hutton wishes his rich aunt dead so he can inherit the funds to dump his wife to be with his mistress. His conversation is overheard by ham actor Franchot Tone playing boisterous, psychopathic and penniless medical student Johann Radek. Tone conspires to murder the aunt and poor knife grinder Joseph Heurtin who is also a part time bungling burglar stumbles into the murder scene and gets implicated.
The esteemed Charles Laughton's talents are wasted in his role as police Inspector Maigret who is taunted by Tone as he conducts his investigation into the murder. The tepid drama concludes with a chase scene on the steel girders of the Eiffel Tower, which was the highlight of a mostly poor effort. |
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