The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)

Actors: Charles Laughton (director), Franchot Tone (producer), Georges Simenon (writer), Michel Michelet (composer), Louis Sackin (editor), Burgess Meredith (director), Irving Allen (director), Robert Hutton (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Charles Laughton (actor), Burgess Meredith (actor), William Phipps (actor), Franchot Tone (actor), Howard Vernon (actor), Irving Allen (producer),

Plot: In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder (Burgess Meredith) is suspected, but Radek keeps taunting the police until they realize that he is the killer. The police and Maigret (Charles Laughton) are led on chases through the streets and over the rooftops of Paris and finally up the girders of the Eiffel Tower.

Keywords: based-on-novel, eiffel-tower-paris, foreign-language-adaptation, maigret, paris-france, remake
Genres: Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: PARIS As You've Never Seen It Before! PARIS...as you've never seen it before! PARIS...GAY, ALLURING...MASKING A STRANGE ADVENTURE! MURDER! MYSTERY! MANHUNT! in the gayest city in the world! DIFFERENT from any picture you've ever seen!...A master-piece of suspense and action, whose every moment of high excitement was filmed IN COLOR. PARIS...Gay, Alluring...Masking a Strange Adventure! and the CITY OF PARIS in The Man on the Eiffel Tower

Quotes:

Inspector Jules Maigret: [to Johann Radek] By the way - there's one thing I'd like to know. Am I following you, or are you following me?