Paris Vice Squad

(1951)

★ 5.4 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Crime

Year: 1951

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: France

Director: Hervé Bromberger

Cast: Raymond Souplex, Jean Debucourt, Робер Берри, Марта Меркадье, Nicole Cézanne, Danielle Godet, Dora Doll, Renaud Mary, Eliane Monceau, Luc Barney

Plot

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.