Jean Gabin as Inspector Maigret (Blu-ray)

This three-film collection features screen great Jean Gabin (Touchez pas au grisbi) as Georges Simenon’s legendary, pipe-smoking sleuth. Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) – Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Annie Girardot and Lino Ventua co-star in this suspenseful whodunnit. Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959) –Maigret is summoned by the Countess to the Château de Saint-Fiacre (Valentine Tessier), where she shows him a letter she has received predicting the day on which she will die, hoping the great inspector can solve the identity of the secret ill-wisher. Michel Auclair and Paul Frankeur co-star. Maigret Sees Red (1963) – Gabin returns for his final outing in the role he was born to play. Three men, cruising Paris’s Pigalle district in a Chevrolet, shoot a bystander. When the police arrive, the body is gone. The good Inspector suspects a ring of U.S. mobsters when the trail leads him to a bowling alley where Americans gather and a mysterious femme fatale called Lily (Françoise Fabian) works. NEW Audio Commentary for Maigret Sets a Trap by Film Historians Howard S. Berger and Nathaniel Thompson | NEW Audio Commentary for Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case by Entertainment Journalists Bryan Reesman and Mike Sargent | NEW Audio Commentary for Maigret Sees Red by Film Critic and Author Simon Abrams | Theatrical Trailers | In French with Optional English Subtitles