The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942) on Netflix
NR19421h 24mComedyMysteryThriller
A killer leaves a card signed Monsieur Durand on each victim. Inspector Wens traces the cards to a boarding house at 21 Avenue Junot and takes a room there in disguise.
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Plot summary
Paris police want a serial killer stopped. He leaves a card on each victim, signed Monsieur Durand. The case goes to Inspector Wenceslas Vorobeychik, known as Wens. Mila Malou, his mistress and a singer short of work, promises to help him in exchange for publicity. A petty thief shows Wens a pile of the Durand cards he found in the attic of a boarding house on Avenue Junot, which means the man he wants lives among the lodgers. Wens moves in under cover as a Protestant minister.
Cast
- Jean Despeauxas Kid Robert
- Marc Natolas Armand, le valet de chambre (as Natol)
- Sylvette Saugéas Christiane Perret, la poule
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- Lucien Blondeauas Police Prefect Edouard (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
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- Both Pierre Fresnay and Suzy Delair found Henri-Georges Clouzot a demanding, even violent director on the film. Delair said he slapped her to get performances out of actors and slapped others as well; Fresnay said he worked relentlessly, with a taste for violence he never tried on Fresnay.
- The Belgian writer Stanislas-André Steeman, whose story the film adapts, was unhappy with how Henri-Georges Clouzot had handled it and their previous collaboration, The Last of the Six (1941).
- Clouzot moved the story's setting from London to Paris and wrote Wens and Mila Malou, characters from his earlier screenplay Le Dernier des six, into the script.
