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A Man's Neck (French: La tête d'un homme) is a 1933 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Gaston Jacquet and Gina Manès. It is an adaptation of the 1931 novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simenon, featuring the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
"A Man's Neck" – an adaptation of a Georges Simenon novel – is a film noir precursor and psychoanalytical thriller that evokes films from the likes of Hitchcock and Lang, but never quite reaching their class, in spite of innovative use of visual techniques and editing.
Currently you are able to watch "A Man's Neck" streaming on Criterion Channel. Synopsis Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke.
Feb 24, 2021 · La tête d’un homme, also known as either A Man’s Neck or A Man’s Head is a superb seedy crime story. Duvivier’s camera is constantly floating around—Murnau-like mobility (this is before Ophuls and Duvivier is a peer with Renoir) with Hitchcock’s keen focus on the details (Duvivier is telling you with the eyeline of the ...
An in-depth review of the film La Tete d'un homme (1933), aka A Man's Neck, directed by Julien Duvivier, featuring Harry Baur, Valery Inkijinoff, Alexandre Rignault
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Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect ...
