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Paris Vice Squad (1951)

Paris Vice Squad (1951)

Crime
Release Date: 1951, April 18
Directors: Hervé Bromberger
Countries: France
Cast: Gérard Buhr, Dominique Davray, Dora Doll, Gabriel Gobin, Louis Lalanne, Georges Montant, Marthe Mercadier, Luc Barney, René Lebrun, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Danielle Godet, Joé Davray

Overview:

Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.